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The Note: VP Guessing Game Keeps GOP in Headlines
August 29, 2008 10:11 AM
ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Friday's Note:
DENVER --
Now that we know Sen. Barack Obama is going to fight for this thing, we’re about to see why he’ll need to.
No rest for the weary leaving Denver for St. Paul: It was Obama’s night on Thursday, but as the confetti wafts down the mountain, Friday is Sen. John McCain’s day -- since he’ll have someone to share it with, at last.
The birthday boy puts his veep out at a noontime ET joint rally in Dayton, Ohio -- and away we go all over again (if the GOP can buy any luck with the weather).
And the process-of-elimination/obfuscation game resumes in full force: Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn., called it a “fair assumption” that he wasn’t it, since he isn’t going to Dayton on Friday: “It was an honor to be considered,” he told a local radio station.
He got the formal call from McCain Friday morning -- told he was not going to be the selection, per ABC’s Jan Crawford Greenburg.
Read the rest of The Note -- and get all the latest on the 2008 election, Congress, the White House and the wide world of politics every day -- from Rick Klein by bookmarking this link.
Fox News’ Carl Cameron reports that former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., is in Boston, Friday and won’t be in Dayton -- and isn’t the pick. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos confirms that Romney is not in Ohio on Friday -- and a source tells Jan Crawford Greenburg that Romney hasn’t been chosen.
No Huckster, either: “There are reports that I’m on my way to Dayton tonight. Not true,” former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., wrote late Thursday in a message to supporters. “Wasn’t invited to be there, and any reports that I’m going to be there are a big surprise to me. I have never been contacted by the McCain campaign at any point about the VP slot.”
And a plane from Alaska had the overnight/early morning buzz on Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska; Karl Rove tells Fox News that it “smells like” it’s her.
But ABC’s Kate McCarthy reports that, per Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow, Palin is at home in Wasilla, Alaska, on Friday, with plans to attend the Alaska State Fair -- and won’t be in Dayton, either.
Continue reading today's Note by clicking HERE.
ABC News' Hope Ditto contributed to this report.
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A lot of those disenfranchised women are going to looooooove this ticket!! Go McCain!
Posted by: Hman | Aug 29, 2008 10:16:41 AM
I like the former eBay exec as McCain's VP choice. She can help him auction off American jobs overseas.
Gee, I wonder why McCain wants to choose a woman now? The transparency of his campaign is pathetic.
And Karl Rove can't "smell" anything but his own stench.
Posted by: Luke W | Aug 29, 2008 10:20:04 AM
Palin would be a terribly cynical choice for McCain. Out the window goes the inexperience argument. Traded for the belief that former Clinton supporters will support a ticket with which they disagree on nearly every point, and why? Because there's a *woman* there. Don't look at the issues, how about that gender!
A Palin pick is a pick out of desperation. Sorry, but people just aren't that stupid.
Posted by: Steve | Aug 29, 2008 10:21:50 AM
Many in the media are reporting sincere frustration as the McCain camp is putting out false information regarding the VP. This is bad for ALL of us as the media "sources" will have every reason to be skeptical of anything McCain puts out.
Posted by: Jennifer | Aug 29, 2008 10:23:17 AM
With Palin on the ticket, and Barack Obama passing up the most qualified woman to be VP (and more qualified than he is to be VP), you better believe women will defect from Obama to McCain.
Add to that the most recent comments by Biden insulting the VP slot. LOL
Posted by: JA | Aug 29, 2008 10:24:08 AM
So Radar, Fox news is reporting that her staff cannot confirm her whereabouts this morning. And you forgot to say in your previous report that the spokesperson who was asked in the middle of the night where her boss was said, "as far as i know". Does John McCain tell spokespeople where his VP pick is or give them permission to tell reporters? Just wondering?
Posted by: s.b. | Aug 29, 2008 10:25:06 AM
This has to be a joke. Palin would take Obama experience and ability to conduct foreign policy out the window.
Palin prior to her two years as governor was mayor of the town of Wassila, Alaska. I'm sorry, that is so podunk it would be a Barry Goldwater moment for McCain (not in a good way).
Posted by: Mr. Coffee | Aug 29, 2008 10:26:59 AM
Hilarious. After weeks of smearing Obama as an unqualified "celebrity", McCain is going to suggest that if he keeled over, control of the entire USA should go to the former mayor of a town of 3,000 people who does fashion spreads for Vogue.
He's already married to a beauty pageant contestant with no political experience and a history of criminal investigations. Why didn't he just pick his own wife?
Posted by: August J. Pollak | Aug 29, 2008 10:27:14 AM
McCain's VP choice I believe is Joe Lieberman. He is in Ohio.
Posted by: Vanessa | Aug 29, 2008 10:28:52 AM
The biggest question about the Alaskan Beauty Queen:
Can she spell "potato" correctly??
Posted by: pedestrian | Aug 29, 2008 10:29:03 AM
With Palin on the ticket, you have a 72 year old nominee with about the most unqualified VP choice he could pick. Hillary was substantive - that is what made her great. If McCain picks Palin, he will confirm his true and total lack of judgement. McCain/Palin- Bridges to Nowhere.
Posted by: PAIN w/Palin | Aug 29, 2008 10:30:17 AM
So he's wants to pick an anti-abortion woman as his VP?
I hope other women aren't stupid enough to fall for this. Someone who is AGAINST WOMEN'S RIGHTS will not help our cause.
The Republicans are much too scary to allow them to retain the power of the Presidency. President's last 4 years, Supreme Court justices can be there for decades!
Besides, McCain only got into the academy because of his admiral father. He was in the BOTTOM 1% of his class. What business would consider making him their CEO? (The answer is NONE!) And some people think he can govern the most powerful and complex nation in the world?
Haven't we had learned yet what electing an idiot does for America? Or are half of the people in this country just easily manipulated lemmings?
Start with the word "freedom", "terrorism", or "patriotic" and some folks will apparently believe anything that follows.
Posted by: Millie Straton | Aug 29, 2008 10:31:06 AM
Mccain Palin
lol lol lol
Are you kidding?!
She is against almost every women's issue out there. She is a posterchild for women who subjegate their choices and lives to men.
lol
She would do ...what? In an international crisis?
do we have a single stitch of evidence of her capabilities or judgement or experience dealing with vast and diversified economic issues outside freaking ALASKA?!...
and proven track record or ability to motivate people or judgments on a level that we would need...if this older caniddate had to suddenly leave office...
that THIS WOMAN oy...could step in one a global stage.
Palin is a joke and if this is the kind of judgment McCain would make ...picking a woman just because she is a woman and overwhelmingly with lack of understanding on a national and international stage...
would we even need to have an election lol after McCain sells out the country for a political stunt...to get himself elected.
Posted by: dl | Aug 29, 2008 10:32:10 AM
Mccain's choices are bad ...or worse.
so today is all about how bad of a pick did he choose...
that's true isn't it.
Posted by: dl | Aug 29, 2008 10:33:58 AM
I heard he's gonna pick Paris Hilton.
LOL!
Did I mention that he's a POW?
Posted by: 08AMA ALL THE WAY! | Aug 29, 2008 10:35:54 AM
As a woman, I find this offensive for John McCain to think that women across America would get his vote just because he chose a woman as his VP. I would be fearful that if anything did happen to McCain during his presidency (if he were elected), an inexperienced woman would be in charge of running our country. Barack Obama is going to get my vote!
Posted by: a.d. | Aug 29, 2008 10:36:03 AM
So, McCain is picking Palin? I guess the Republicans think that experience is overrated too. They want a 44-year-old 1st-term governor with no foreign policy experience to back up 72-year-old McCain? I wonder how Hillary's supporters are feeling about this. Considering that McCain is 72 years old, Palin might becom the first female president of the United States if McCain wins but for some reason cannot finish out his term.
Posted by: anthony | Aug 29, 2008 10:37:15 AM
If he picks Ridge he is saying that the Bush aggressive and blindered security bologne of the last 8 years was good.
Since he would be picking the biggest face of those choices.
If he picks Romney
"The Trust Fund Baby" Ticket
If he picks Palin
"The Pray he doesn't have a heart attack" Ticket
If he picks Lieberman
the "we will win with 3 families from Boca and the couple of thousand people who had dinner with him over the years in connecticut and NARAL/Committee for Liberation of Iraq Lobbyists" ticket...
because no one else is voting for him.
Posted by: dl | Aug 29, 2008 10:37:54 AM
Or maybe it'll be Britney.
She's a POW in her own mind.
They're perfect together!
LOLOL!!!!
Posted by: 08AMA ALL THE WAY! | Aug 29, 2008 10:38:28 AM
I would say if he picked Palin...
right now from all the pundits and news...
they are telling her...
"uh, wemade a mistake"
lol
Posted by: dl | Aug 29, 2008 10:40:17 AM
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