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The Note: VP Guessing Game Keeps GOP in Headlines
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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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Posted by: Jacob | Aug 29, 2008 10:40:53 AM
It's Palin!
Good judgment John mcCain.
get this guy to retire.
Posted by: dl | Aug 29, 2008 10:42:49 AM
This is huge. This is going to seal victory for McCain. The DNC had all eyes towards Obama, they openly ignored women democrats with the single thought "the'll get over it." They never once stood up against the blatant sexism that was hurled against Hillary. They made their bed......
Posted by: History in the Making! | Aug 29, 2008 10:45:03 AM
Great VP choice Sen MCcAIN,Hillary supporters are with you.
MCCAIN/PALIN 08
Posted by: remorse | Aug 29, 2008 10:46:32 AM
Ladies and Gentlemen. Obama has just won the presidency.
Posted by: Vanessa | Aug 29, 2008 10:47:23 AM
This is the CHANGE WE'VE been waiting for!!!!! Thank you Senator McCain!!!
This woman has it all - you have hit a home run!
Posted by: McCain Dem | Aug 29, 2008 10:48:28 AM
you all are whakced
republican are even going to run
mccain has just said if he kicks the bucket
it doesn't matter if we are taken care of...just get him to hold the oposition he has always dreamed of.
Bad bad bad choice.
Posted by: dl | Aug 29, 2008 10:51:19 AM
Obama will need his hope and a prayer.
Posted by: seah | Aug 29, 2008 10:53:25 AM
Obama is having a really bad day. Hillary is watching tv and laughing her @$$ off at McCain's choice for VP. Women are flocking to the GOP website and signing up. McCain is bringing the CHANGE !!!! WOO_HOO!!! Former Hillary supporters for MCCAIN !!! She has executive experience and Obama has NONE. Woo-hoo it's a new day in the Republican party. Bring it!
Posted by: Traveling pantsuits | Aug 29, 2008 10:55:10 AM
GAME CHANGER Let's see the Obama campaign continue theie sexist attacks. Governor Palin can identify with working mothers.
Posted by: geevill | Aug 29, 2008 10:55:55 AM
I should have checked my spelling in my earlier post. I meant Palin might become the first female president of the United States if 72-year-old McCain wins but cannot finish his term. I heard that she was a former beauty pageant contestant. Didn't Cindy McCain win a beauty pageant? So I guess it is true that McCain really has a thing for former beauty pageant contestants.
Posted by: anthony | Aug 29, 2008 10:55:57 AM
This changes everything. This is history in the making for the republican party. McCain is the change agent of 2008!
McCain/Palin - Yes THEY can!
Posted by: Jazz | Aug 29, 2008 11:03:16 AM
Sarah Palin 44 years old (younger then Obama). Was a mayor of a town with a population of 3,000. Govenor of a small state for one and a half years.
How will she debate with Biden? It's almost laughable.
At least with Romney there was some sort of credibility.
McCain has just wiped out the "inexperienced" factor for himself.
Posted by: Vanessa | Aug 29, 2008 11:03:17 AM
Steve: "A Palin pick is a pick out of desperation..."
I suspect a lot of folks are going to see it that way. Will be interesting to see the initial reactions, but my initial reaction is this is probably a political mistake.
Being seen trying to pander to Clinton supporters seems to cheapen McCain's view of the responsibilities of the office.
Now, that's the cynical view. We also need to be open to the possibility that McCain really thinks she's presidential material. And she may be - I know nothing about her.
But a lot of folks are going to see this cynically, I think.
Posted by: Paul | Aug 29, 2008 11:08:07 AM
Anthony: "I heard that she was a former beauty pageant contestant. Didn't Cindy McCain win a beauty pageant? So I guess it is true that McCain really has a thing for former beauty pageant contestants."
Ohhhh, was Palin really? Remember his first wife was a swim suit model. And with the Tailhook thing... oh man, this could turn into a campaign dynamic.
Posted by: Paul | Aug 29, 2008 11:10:02 AM
He should pick Paris Hilton. It'll be the second time he took the younger, richer woman over the one he was supposed to stick with.
Posted by: McSAME | Aug 29, 2008 11:11:53 AM
My comment: McCain selected the wrong Alaskan; it should have been Stevens. He would have fit nicely in the aged Republican Camp and his legal troubles will distract from the inept philosophy of the political anemia which is a centerpiece of our RP. We don't have a chance in November; how did we get into this mess?
Posted by: Robert Jennings | Aug 29, 2008 11:14:05 AM
Palin?
And yet another politican who's career is tied DIRECTLY TO BIG OIL!
Are we that stupid to do it AGAIN?
Posted by: McSAME | Aug 29, 2008 11:17:24 AM
"Being seen trying to pander to Clinton supporters seems to cheapen McCain's view of the responsibilities of the office"
It also cheapens his "maverick" characteristic and demostrates a lack of judgement. If...god forbid McCain dies during the course of his presidency Palin becomes president. Someone with NO foreign policy credentials. Mayor of a town with the population of 3,000. And govenor of a small state for a year and a half. This is the biggest risk McCain has ever taken I believe and after a debate with Biden....... McCain has just handed Obama the presidency.
Posted by: Vanessa | Aug 29, 2008 11:19:16 AM
Vanessa,
go celebrate if you truly believe that. I suspect you really are worried sick. Obama/Biden and the DNC got played big time.
Posted by: geevill | Aug 29, 2008 11:28:10 AM
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