[Plutarch]

I noted on Intrade that Romney VP bid and ask had gone up, so did a blog search to see if there was an explanation. This article came up, maybe it is the reason, I don't know. Beware, the site features a lot of graphics of nubile and pulchritudinous co-eds.

[Patrick1]

I will have to call BS on this one. You can get Romney's money without making him Veep, promise him the Treasury Secretary job and you get the cash.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Sen. John McCain will choose businessman and former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney as Vice President”

Bad news if this is true. If so, he should just pick Hillary. She is as conservative as Romney and would attract more votes.

[K-oneTexas]

Although I think Romney would be a good choice ... as far as leadership ability and knowledge of economics as well as his stand on fiscal and national security matters. IMHO, he is a much better and stronger choice than Huckabee could ever be. Not perfect but better than the Populist Huckabee. Personally, I just can't see McCain swallowing his ego that much to pick a qualified Veep, cause there will be times when Romney speaks that McCain will not be heard (no matter how loud he screams).

McCain is not my choice, until he pitted against Obama (or Hillary if she got the nod). I think Romney would have been a better choice to stay on the conservative side of immigration than McCain. But McCain's the hand we've been dealt. Third parties need not apply.

[EggsAckley]

“.........a source closely connected with the McCain campaign, who asked to remain anonymous,......”

The source is pathetically lacking in gravitas.

[MARTIAL MONK]

Andrew wrote this? Thath tho gay.

[NavVet]

Great, another reason not to vote for Juan McLame.

[Bronzewound]

the site features a lot of graphics of nubile and pulchritudinous co-eds.

Dang!

[Mr. Bird]

It’s all part of the McCain campaign’s plan to directly target college-age voters

Lord, I hope not. College-age voters are notorious for their bombast but completely unreliable at the polls. Every cycle the media plays up the "youth vote", and every post-mortem shows they never vote in the numbers necessary.

I think McCain should gamble and play up his age. I don't have the demographics handy, but I am quite sure the majority of the voting-age public is older than Obama. There is a psychological aversion among many people to hand the keys to the White House to someone younger than they.

A strategy coupling serious explanations of Obama's economic policy proposals and their devastating consequences in any outlet that will air them, coupled with the inherent appeal of McCain on security issues, and he might win. The attacks on his service right now may be an indication that the Obama camp is considering such a combo.

[montag813]

BIG mistake to name Romney. Hugh.

[Gator113]

First, I don’t believe it.

Second, I hate this kind of leak to the media crap.

Third, if it is true, then, based on the way this came out and the process used for picking the Veep, I would respect Romney more if he turned the job down.

Last but not least...I already don’t like McCain and I hate Obama, however, should McCain stick us with HuckaFreak, I will be done with all of this and off to study ghetto speak.

[Signalman]

Romney is the best choice, no question about it.

[Rudder]

But despite Huckabee’s sway with far Right conservatives...

Whoa! Who would this group be---the far right TV Evangelicals?

[Boston Capitalist]

Romney actually can bring in votes, too. There are decent-sized Mormon populations in some western states that are have been becoming less red and that Obama thinks he can take in lieu of Ohio and Florida. A similar effect with Lieberman and the Jewish vote helped make Florida closer than one would otherwise have expected in 2000.

Romney also has family history and a good vibe in Michigan — he won the primary there — and the credibility to make the argument that the Dems are to blame for the auto industry decline. Winning Michigan would be pretty big for the GOP.

[dennisw]

I noted on Intrade that Romney VP bid and ask had gone up, so did a blog search to see if there was an explanation. This article came up, maybe it is the reason, I don't know. Beware, the site features a lot of graphics of nubile and pulchritudinous co-eds.

McCain should name Mitt Romney as VP tomorrow and send him out on the road to savage Obama all summer long
I don't care about any Republican convention for Romney to be named VP
By then it will be too late

Get Mitt out there now. He has the youthful looks and enormous resume to challenge rookie Obama at every turn. Mitt will slice and dice that POS

[6SJ7]

Co-ed Magazine gets the, er, scoop on V.P. picks. Fake! Fake! Fake!

[smithone]

Co-ed Magazine has this scoop? I call b.s.

[gogogodzilla]

Woo hoo! Mass-Care for all America!

Vote for McCain, he’ll give us socialized medicine, carbon taxes, unchecked illegal immigration, abortion...

And if you don’t vote for McCain, we’ll get Obama... who’ll give us socialized medicine, carbon taxes, unchecked illegal immigration, abortion...

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Wow. I’ve forgotten... who’s the conservative candidate in this?

Oh, and you *MUST* vote for one of the two, ‘cause everybody just *KNOWS* that a vote for someone else is just a waste. Uh-huh, dem Republicrats tells me so.

Heaven forbid anyone actually use their brains to think about this...

[Libloather]

Sen. John McCain will choose businessman and former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney as Vice President

I can deal with it.

[fieldmarshaldj]

It happens, the GOP loses. It’s. Just. That. Simple.

[TAdams8591]

Wow, the list is being used twice in two days. It's a sign, I tell you. : ) Comments welcome.

Bethtopaz you're on the list. I hope you get this ping.