Now about John McCain who pulled himself together for the evangelical get-together in Los Angeles the other day and came out smelling very presidential. 

Let me just quote something from the onetime Bush finance chairwoman of NYC, Rita Hauser. She says: “He doesn’t listen carefully to people and make reasoned judgments. If John says, ‘I’m going with so and so, you can count on that,’ you can’t count on that the next morning.” Mrs. Hauser has now sided with Obama.

Would McCain select Joe Lieberman? If so he’d get credit for a certain bipartisanship missing from Obama’s slate, yet I think this idea is the pits. Both Republicans and Democrats can’t stand Joe.

There is a real case to be made for Mitt Romney, in spite of those heated primaries. He’s young, handsome, has economic grounding and has been a chief executive. But he comes off as such a hypocrite, too ambitious and then, he’s a Mormon. That shouldn’t count against him, but go figure. It does.

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While Obama studies all consequences as if prepping for a doctoral degree, approaching all carefully, I believe McCain will follow his gut and his heart.

As someone said, “He’ll wake up at the last minute in that hot pilot mood and name someone everybody never heard of.”

Hey, last week he met with T. Boone Pickens on ecology. Maybe he’ll take T. Boone, in a moment of forgetting that the latter is even older than he is. He will operate, as usual, on impulse.

Since the office of vice president is largely ceremonial anyway and his/her only real importance is voting to break a tie, maybe a grand-old-guy ticket would do the trick.    

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