Happy Birthday, Mr. McCain. I guess when you were questioning experience you were just blowing smoke. Governor Palin has even less experience than Senator Obama. Nevermind, I figured out long ago that there are no depths to which you would not sink in order to attain the Presidency.
McCain V.P.: It’s Palin
By Michael CooperUpdated 10:32 p.m.: Senator John McCain has selected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate.
Whether her selection would really improve Mr. McCain’s appeal to women who had supported Mrs. Clinton was unclear. Both Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin oppose abortion rights, and important issue for some women. And a major theme of the Democratic convention that just concluded in Denver was both Clintons urging her supporters to unite behind Mr. Obama, in no uncertain terms.
Updated 10:10 a.m. DAYTON — And then there were … How many?
Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota said in a radio interview on Friday morning that he planned to be at the Minnesota state fair on Friday, not here in Dayton with Senator John McCain, who has an event planned for noon, Eastern.
When he was asked if that means he would not be Mr. McCain’s running mate, Mr. Pawlenty told WCCO radio that “I think that’s a fair assumption.’’
Also this morning, The Times’s Michael Luo reports that Mitt Romney, who had long been perceived as one of the final candidates for the slot, has been ruled out. A source close to Mr. Romney said he is not going to be in Dayton today.
So who does that leave? The Times’s Elisabeth Bumiller sends the following:
Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska? As reports circulated on television and cable networks on Friday morning that Senator John McCain might have selected Ms. Palin as his running mate, McCain advisers expressed bewilderment. One adviser said that while Mr. McCain thinks highly of Ms. Palin, who is opposed to abortion rights and would be welcomed by Christian conservatives, her less than two years in office would undercut one of the McCain campaign’s central criticisms of Senator Barack Obama — that he is too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief.
“While it’s a dramatic and interesting choice, it would make the argument he’s making difficult to make,” said one McCain adviser.
Much of the campaign apparatus remained in the dark about Mr. McCain’s choice as of 9 a.m. Friday. Briefing calls that had been scheduled to go out to a top group of outsider advisers were delayed Thursday night, and then delayed again Friday morning.
John Harwood, of CNBC and The New York Times, reports that a Republican strategist reports being informed by McCain campaign official choice is Palin.
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