ERIE, Pennsylvania (CNN) – Tom Ridge might be a long-shot in the vice presidential sweepstakes, but John McCain certainly holds him in high esteem.
The presumptive GOP nominee, who refuses to discuss the vetting process for potential running mates, heaped praise on his friend and adviser on Monday in Ridge’s hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania.
At one point, a GE employee at a brief town hall meeting here asked McCain what his plans would be for his first 90 days in office.
“Call Tom Ridge to Washington from whatever vacation he is taking and get him to work,” McCain answered, to much applause.
Selecting Ridge, a Catholic and former two-term governor of Pennsylvania, could boost McCain’s chances in this swing state. But Ridge also supports abortion rights, a factor that would likely turn off segments of the Republican base.
McCain said he was “honored” to know Ridge, “who had every opportunity after he graduated from Harvard not to go to Vietnam. He could have found a doctor that would have a given a cert that he bad a bad knee. But instead he went and decided to serve his country during the Vietnam War.
“He came back here to Erie and he decided to be a prosecutor, and then he decided to seek a role, a seat in congress and then of course as governor,” McCain continued. That’s the kind of people this part of America produces. I’m proud to be in his company.”
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Memo to McCrypt and Crew – Quick, set up a 24/7 watch on the corrals at your local pony express offices, in case they wish to announce the Republican's VP choice!
Tom Ridge campaigned hard for George Bush Senior, Bob Dole, and George W Bush. Neither of these candidates won Pennsylvania.
People in Erie are struggling from a poor economy and watching the Iraq war claim more and more lives.
They are going to vote for change, not more of the GOP same.
McCain needs to pick anyone that will help him beat the 'empty-suit' Obama...even Hillary, if necessary!!!
yes,you support all bush cronies.tom ridge.creator of the katrina disaster.what a joke.keep it up mccain.i like watching your 'numbers' drop.
And the search continues.......ummmmmm....a Vietnam Veteran......we are getting closer.
Isn't this the genius behind the color coded threat levels??
PLEASE make him the VP running mate!!!!!!!!
Go Obama!
by the way GOP? why cant you afford your own convention?wasting too much money on attack ads?lol!
Yuo just can't figure out who you think McCains running mate will be, can you? Every story has it as someone else. If he says good morning to someone- THAT'S THE GUY! Nice tie- THAT'sT THE GUY!
why don't you wait until he announces his selection to reorpt
obama won't win if Clinton is not his VP.....
Don't do it, John.
wow, shallow vindictive obama supporters are rampant today. . .
Ridge would be a good choice. He didn't create katrina disaster, the local and state government did. Since when did the populus depend so much on government to solve their problems?
Ok, McCain, he is your ticket maker open minded pro-choice that would be one small step for the Republican Redemtion and one Giant leap to the CENTER. As and Independent I would select a Mainstream Administration and a Bi-Partiasan Cabinet that would be a mainstream ideal ticket.
McCain/Ridge 08
Hillary12
The same Tom Ridge that quit Homeland security because he needed to make more money and spend more time with his family?
This is very Erie, alright..............................
McCain may be a military veteran but he greatly exaggerates his accomplishments. He is no better than the 4200 plus soldiers who have been killed in Iraq and sacrificed their life at the expense of McCain and Bush and their manipulation of facts in order to go to war. At least McCain survived and is able to walk around and tell lies and dirty jokes like he has been doing. He is sick.
sorry McLoser you still dont get my vote
Yuck, I know Tom Ridge, what a jerk. Should go with Jindahl. Then we can make Cowboy and Indian jokes.
The same Tom Ridge that quit Homeland Security to spend more time with this family? Is Gramps just pandering to the voters of PA?
This is very Erie....................
And this is the guy who manipulated our terror warning system to help out Bush in 2004. He even questioned the raise in terror warnings but did it anyway like a good little Bushie! WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE BUSHIES IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!
Better than the ANTICHRIST MORMON Mitt Romney. That is what our Bible calls him and them don't blame me. The only way to the Father is through the son. Not through Joseph Smith. What a Joke he is. They are even changing his words. Joseph Smith was a RACIST and Mitt is a follower of his and lives and believes in his word.
McSame can pick whoever he want but it will not make a difference.
Obama08
McCain was a traitor in Vietnam! A bad pilot who squeeled to the enemy!
He is yet another mouthpiece for the failed policies of the current moron in office!
He does not stand for any true conservative values!
Bob Barr '08
I won't vote for McSame but I will give Tom Ridge credit for 'wising up' and getting away from the Bush/Cheney cabinet in 2004.
That McSame would respect this imbicile is just one more piece of evidence that he is not qualified to be President of the U.S. We don't need anymore of the criminal hold-overs from the Reagan and Bush years.
Bush has destoyed our economy so thoroughly, I actually hope that McCain wins. The next President is going to inherit such a mess that their party will be linked with the disaster for decades. Elect McCain and it will be the last "Republican" elected for years!!
- Democrat for Bush's third term
Tom Ridge is a joke. I did not have any confidence in him when he was the head of homeland security. He was a "player" then and still is.
But of course that's all the repubs are for each other, (and their master
Cheney).
I think Tom Ridge would be a good choice fpr McCain as VP. I like the fact that he is conservitive and also pro choice.
Tom Ridge?! Orange alert, orange alert!
Ridge is perfect, a younger, nastier more evil bastard than Dick Cheney. And he looks like an evil cartoon character to top it all off.
I CAN NOT BELIEVE THERE IS STILL IDIOTS LIKE YOU chris HILLARY LOST REMEMBER, HOW CAN A LOSER HELP OBAMA TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY.
Bet half the population of PA is throwing up at this one !!!!!
When are you all going to show the clip about McCain saying at a townhall meeting earlier this year "……. and we will never have to go to war for oil again……."
Please show that cliip over and over. We got all of Obama's stuff over and over for months. Georgia has pipelines going thru it – that's why the repukes are so interested. Oil Oil Oil Oil Oil Oil
Fair and balanced should mean fair in ALL ways.
Obama '08
Funny, "Mike Dallas", hateful smart-as! Obamites like you will be part of the reason for Obama's defeat come November. I can't wait to hear your type whine and cry then!
I think Wolf Plizer is obssesed with the V.P pick crap or he is trying to create a news where there is no news.
Tom Ridge seems like a reasonably good person, too bad he affiliated himself with the most corrupt political party in recent American history.
I suppose he could work out a color-code system to indicate how lost, dazed, and confused McCain is for that day.
Im sick of saying this! McCain/Ridge 08=
Obama: 528
McCain: 10 (Arizona)
Ridge has universal appeal.
The same feeling that Hilary had when she realized she had lost, will be the feeling McCain and Cindy will have on November 5th. It's the feeling that Dems had when Bush stole the first election.
It's also the same feeling we had when Bush bullied his way into the White House in 2004, with the help of Karl Rove, who needed to keep his job. When the house started falling, all the rats, like Rove began to run. And they're still running. McCain and Bush will NEVER run away from the fact that Americans made a huge mistake. Well– never again, not this time, not ever.
So that's why Bush is in China, he's got nothing else to do. His legacy will be one of sorrow and pain. And now McCain is tying himself to this loser. November will be sweet.
Im going to Bugtussle, Georgia now to speak with Zell Miller and end this war.
so?
Clinton will not be the VP, and Obama will win. Why? Because the people have spoken, and we don't want dishonest people in the White House. We've had enough with Bush, why would we put Clinton in there–they're the same.
ha...I would LOVE this.....Pick Ridge Grandpa!
Obama 08
McCain and this administration are a bunch of Morons.
Another Bushed clone.
they match. both of them are old cronies that know nothing except war. what you bet they are sitting there at lunch talking about "the serge". old days of vietnam. this just adds another layer to old folks home should be's! McCain has such bad choice in people, just like his bad choices in what he will do for us in america.
Once again Hillary has proven that she can't be trusted. No sooner had Barack turned his back, then she started campaigning for herself. Oh, what a surprise–NOT. She is the most selfish, self-centered person on the planet, and she will sell her own mother if it would get her back in the White House.
I have an idea, why doesn't she jump ship, again, and run for Queen of the Dishonest, Lying, Cheating People. She would win hands down. And she can take her disloyal (there's another surprise) husband with her.
Does this mean McCain is going to delegate the Office of President to someone else? Perhaps he can offshore it to, say, India. I'll bet we can find someone who can do a very competent job at a fraction of the salary.
All of you white collar types out there who have little sympathy for all the manufacturing jobs that have been lost to China, Mexico, and other parts of the world, you may have another thing comming when suddenly a large portion of engineering, accounting, IT, and finance, and similar jobs disappear becasue anyone with a computer in China or India can do your job, and probably for 1/2 the salary or less.
I guess then all of these trade issues will hit home for you. Wonder who you are going to go crying to.
..... and if it doesn't happen to you, perhaps it will to your kids or grandkids.
More proof that McCain is Bush and the same old crew will remain in Washington if he is elected ........ time for change people and McWar isn't change he is simply more of the same.
As an Obama supporter, I am increasingly worried about his chances of actually beating McCain. As my case of Obama-fatigue sets in, I am realizing that McCain is more deserving and more experienced than Obama to be president. And I am not very clear on where Obama stands on certain issues, and I fear that neither does he.
JB--oh yes indeedy........I'm with you.
Obama/Feingold '08
I here so much about empty-suit in this election that it make me sick. Who you want to represent you? A stock boy are a Lawyer :quite sure a person who read the fine print when it come to our security. When come time for VP you want that person you can commucate on your level.
On another ticker it says that Republicans prefer Romney. That should bring all the Latinos into Obama's court as Romney wants to ship every illegal immigrant back to where they came from. Said it very cavalierly in the debates...........Does he have any Native American blood in him; just wondering.....
Or...Let McCain pick Ridge who has sided with the same Republican ilk in power........More of the same......... But it is all media right now until announcements are made.
Is this the McCain strategy to win Pennsylvania?
How about helping the economy, bringing the soldiers from Pennsylvania home, paying attention to the environment, etc insteading of this pandering?
bob in L.A.
My thoughts exactly. They (news media) can't get anything right where the Republican party is concerned. They are all so tingley and excited by the thought of the negro-caucasian candidate that they loose sight of all things real and relevant.
I am an independent with much more liberal views than "conservative", however I am from Harrisburg, PA and Tom Ridge was one of the best governors we have had. I have no doubt in my mind that he would do a good job and this country would be a much better place had George Bush picked him as his VP instead of the evil Cheney. Tom Ridge is a good man and a good person to have in charge, don't bash him if you don't know what your talking about. This would be a smart pick for McCain in my opinion.
Good choice McCain, picking Tom Ridge is like a kiss of death.
Another too old, too out dated!!!!! Lost in the past!!! AND toooo connected to Washington lobbiests!!
I live in pa and when Ridge was govenor he did nothing, Any way Ridge helped Bush with his fear mongering, Remember the color coded security alerts so he lied right along with bush using their fear to scare americans!!!!!!!
What's up McSame, worried about your poll numbers? Have you fallen and you can't get up?
OMG...I hope he pick Ridge!!!
The Democrats will have a field day with this guy in their campaign ad.
Do you remember this Man Tom Ridge.He was the guy behind the 2004 fear mongering ring of the McBush Admin by crafting the weekly if not hourly color code threat level thing Bush used to scare voters in 2004 to scare voters.
Another reminder of how McCain=BUSH and about what you get if you vote for McCain, more of the same.
Now that you've closed comments on McCain on Russia action in Georgia, i have to make it here. This mans' temper is dangerous for a POTUS. don't vote him in. he will initiate world war III.
VP (running mate)
He has a mental freezer he can't announce his running mate yet. he is waiting for Obama only to attack him negatively about the choice.Gobama
As I heard McCain speek about the Russian/Georgien conflict
I heard an old, tired man speaking words of the past. No one wil listen. It is realy sad that this man runs for the Presedency.
The new Cheneys of the Republicans are whispering every line
in his ear. I realy am sorry for him and I am sure that he wil be done
even before november.
America needs change now!
Obama 2008
So that’s all McCain is going to do in his first 90 days? Call Tom Ridge?
McCain’s plan sounds a lot like Bush’s plan except that he called Cheney!
Nice, choose the guy who created color coded Terror threat levels. The great part is since the 2004 Elections, no one has mentioned it since it occured to people that it is as much a Terrorist tool as bombs or videotaped threats.
Hey, Mr. McCain, when can you pull out the GOP slug that latched itself to your spine and think for yourself again? I miss the John MCCain the Republicans didn't like. That guy could givE Obama a run. You? Nope, just another puppet.
John McCaign campaigning with Tom Ridge – where is Cindy? She needs to be right next to him to make sure he does not do to her like he did his ex-wife.
People should be paying close attention when McCain states the first thing he will do is call Tom Ridge to Washington within the first 90 days after he gets elected.
If that doesn't prove all McCain can get for cabinet posts and adviers are George Bush cronies nothing will. Phil Gramm is all McCain has for a financial adviser so he will get to Washington before Ridge and that will quiet all you Yankee whiners.
Obama/Edwards '08 The perfect pair. One can't keep his mouth zipped, the other can't keep his fly zipped.
Isn't Ridge one of the national security honchos spewing so much paranoid crap after 9/11?? Who wants this guy for VP?? Obama fans maybe...
This is ridiculous.
There is no way the republican "base"-the religeous right – is going to turn out to support a luke warm candidate in McCain and a PROCHOICE governor in Ridge.
This is just more meaningless fodder to attract attention and convince independents that McCain is still a Maveric. A title he gladly gave up to be the republican nominee 2years ago.
You all must have forgotten what happen in Vietnam. A lot of young people died for nothing and McCain claims to be the only HERO along with the media. If McCain is elected, be ready for WORLD WAR THREE.
That's all well and good but will McCain be able to remember his name tomorrow and what state he is from?
Tom Ridge former Dept of Homeland Security – who gave up our rights to privacy!!. WOW – let's vote this man into office. Sure let Ridge get the experience, since McCain has decided to be a lame duck only (4) years.
I wonder who got the most penetration from McCain's nose: Ridge or Bush?
How does Tom Ridge counter anything that Obama comes up with? Ridge looks a lot like Kemp and he is all but forgotten in the '96 campaign with Dole! One would think that careful thinking regarding a vice presidential candidates would take into consideration Obama's penchant for forward thinking which McCain is not apparently doing! Slam, dunk for Obama!
obama supporters = fools that will believe anything.
Hillary, HELP!
Tell me what to do.
Should I write your name on the ballet?
Should I not vote at all?
Should I vote for McCain?
or Should I vote for Obama?
What would you want me to do? Give us a sign
Oh you poor liberals!!!! you have no chance ANYTHING to try and make something out of nothing.
Note: Tom Ridge was a popular 2 term Governor. He is just one of a few people that support Mccain. Who ever he picks will be popular and will win the election. Stop saying the GOP is stupid. Thats why the Democrats can't ever win the presidency,there stupidity and arrogance just cant seem to be put to the side.
I sat in a room of 100 hard core Democrats in NJ AT MY JEWISH NEPHEWS WEDDING, 3 SAID THEY WERE VOTING FOR OBAMA. When the Democratic senate and congress do nothing the Republicans will be in full control again,the difference this time is John Mccain will be the President and the results will be much different!!!
The Democratic Mayor of Linden,NJ IS ENDORSING JOHN MCCAIN!!!HOW ABOUT THAT.
Duct tape
Plastic wrap for windows
Air filtration masks
Color coded threats
FIASCO track record
Waste of tax payer dollars to proliferate BUREAUCRACY
Remember the Homeland Security Convention in HAWAII
YEA, WHAT A GREAT CHOICE FOR VP
All the integrity of a bowl full of toliet water
McCain IS LOSING HIS MIND
You media/puma/republicans guys don't get it do you? This is a campaign paid for and sponsored by ordinary Americans so Obama is answerable to us first before the media; and that is how Obama will rule the country a government OF the people, FOR the people and BY the American people. GET USED TO IT
McSame could care less about American jobs, so long as the war machine keeps humming. McWar only wants investment in war, death and destruction. McCain does not have anything to say even on his add. We know him always crying about media attention and when he has it he talk about Obama. Media putting Obama under microscope and they can not find anything and now all I see McCain TV add for free in all the stations. McCain is follower and Obama is the leader. He had all week to talk about energy and all he said all the above is my plan he never give any $ or brake down on his plan he said “ALL THE ABOVE “he means Obama plans, More McLies by omission. Please ask him what his plans are about the war he just says we need to win just like a child not just like a leader. Senator Obama is a leader young like Kennedy and Celebrity like Ragan. But McBush promised a campaign of integrity.
Surely we can trust McCain to be honest with us and keep his promises.
Wake me when this geriatric festival that McCain is on is over please. This man is way too old to be president. HIS lack of experience will prove itself soon. There are 2 and only 2 qualifications to be President.. Age 35+ and have been born in the United States.. Anything else than that is a plus but not a requirement, although the Repubs will make you think otherwise!! He is a Washington insider, has lots of lobbyists running his campaign. McCain like all republicans will choose another old white guy to serve as his running mate.. Republicans think that women should stay home and do the job of a woman and not have a voice. Republican'ts make me sick. McCain will start WW3 he has already said he wants to bomb Iran. Doing just that will start WW3. McCain is all about war and more war. Sure he has plans. Plans to keep troops occupying Iraq for 50-100 years.. Drilling will not ease our oil obsession, it will take 3-5 years before that oil would reach America.. By then, gas prices will be $6/gallon..
About the color coded alerts. Doesn't yellow mean chicken? scared? yellow-bellied? .. Tom Ridge is a doofus and is a yes man for Bush. If America votes McCain in as President, I'm renouncing my citizenship!!
Native Arizonan against McCain!! Anti-Puma
no rommey for vp
I don't care. Tom Ridge? Mitt Romney? Same ol same ol. Both results will be the same.
So Mr. Rove, political analysis, please. Are these not political choices as well? Boring news week... and it's only just started. Bring back Obama please.
As a PA voter, I can tell you choosing Ridge is NOT the way to win PA. The man may still be popular in his hometown of Erie, but that region is already strongly Republican. Otherwise, his years as Homeland Security Secretary in the Bush Administration allowed him to fail publicly and spectacularly in raising the security level for American ports, nuclear plants, borders, chemical facilities, food supply and on and on and on. If McCain is smart, he will choose somebody who hasn't been a mediocre lackey of the failed Bush Administration.
Aw, jeez. Is this a code red alert, or what? Ridge?
McCain must be nuts
How exciting! I, for one, plan to stock up on plastic sheeting and duct tape to celebrate!
The mainstream media has been conning the public since the primaries. To bad we can't fire them all! Most middle age and older Americans don't have computers, again, Obama is just too elite for them.
Also, needs to be the American flag and take off his logo on tail of his plane. He's running for President of USA not of the World!
Tom Ridge will be in my cabinet and he will scare you daily just to make sure your not sleeping at night.
How pathetic! What about someone who actually cares about the people, I could care less about his homeland security! I need security with being able to keep my job, to get a salary that keeps up with rising cost of gas and food, to pay my mortgage and medical expenses. What about that type of security? Does the republican party even understand that? I live in PA, my state is in need of help and jobs now!
Tom Ridge was as complicit as everyone else in Bush's administration. We don't need anymore liars in positions of power.
The old war monger Mccain needs a phoney like Ridge to hold him together with his duct tape and also let the old man know what color [color code] is in effect so he can hide. The people of Pensylvania are smart enogh to make sure that the old war monger will not get elected.
Duct tape, breathing masks, color coded fear level & Don't forget this is the man that told us to make an emergency kit – because there was a good chance we'd have large evacuations of our cities, possibly never to return.
McFear & Fear Ridge – Let's don't go there. There is a better option with Obama.
McCain is such a dork. He can't seem to get two sentences out without making a gaffe. His advisors probably didn't want him to share the fact Ridge is not under consideration for VP but when McCain says he'll "call Tom Ridge to Washington" in his first 90 days it's pretty obvious there aren't any plans to make Ridge VP.
CONSIDERING o bama's voting record in the SENATE 138 times PRESENT.....i hope he doesn't forget to text message himself so he doesn't forget to vote for MC CAIN///// MC CAIN wants tom ridge to help him win penn. NOT BE HIS VICE PRESIDENT CHOICE it is that simple
Ridge would be great, except: most Americans know only know that he is the creator of the silly color coded threat level system. He also is pro-choice. And he also is a close tie to Bush. Get rid of those problems and he's the pick!
Tom Ridge? Is that a JOKE???
I was going to vote for McCain but not if he runs with that stupid idiot.
What did he do for Homeland Security besides spending billions of dollars and making me take my shoes off all the time?!!!!
Who cares who McCain picks? He has these attack ads but what is he going to do for the American people but make the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Obama has my vote 100%
Once again, McCain proves to us that he has no new ideas. Tom Ridge, the former and incompetent Secretary of DHS? what a joke. Proof-postitive that McCain intends to carry on with the neo-con morons who almost destroyed this country. Too bad for him that he doesn't have a chance in November.
I wonder if he will text everyone when the race is over and he wishes President McCain good luck?
Only the anti-abortion religious fundamentalist fringe of the Republican party really cares all that much about the issue of choice.
I think the ONLY thing Tom Ridge brings to the table is Pennsylvania. He does not attract moderates (Patriot Act) or social conservatives (abortion). He does not help McCain in any way, other than maybe McCain is hoping to make a play for PA.
Tom Ridge, the man who gave us plastic sheets and duct tape as the first line of defense against terrorist attack.
Tom, "If it's Tuesday, it must be Orange" Ridge.
Tom Ridge's job at DHS was to run to the microphone anytime Bush was in trouble and spout, "We don't know who, when or where, but they're out there!!!"
"Be afraid,.......be verrrrryyyy afraid!!!!!!!"
McCain was born in Panama, Central America. He is Central American – NOT born in United States.
He has been on Government Health Program since the day he was born to wealthy Navy people. Do YOU Have Health Insurance?
Ridge is a crook – Romney – well, sleeze says it all.
Obama '08
Perfect.
We have at least one libtard declaring they will denounce their citizenship if McCain wins.
Another couple million to go!!
WE CAN DO THIS AMERICA!!!
RID THE COUNTRY OF LIBERALS!!!
A TRUE VICTORY FOR THE U.S.A.
Ridge sucked as governor. Also do I have to remind people he left his job at homeland security because he was not getting paid enough. When he was making close to $200,000.
Ridge wasn't any good as a governor, wasn't any good in homeland security and I don't see how McShame thinks he can help him win PA - I can't stand either one of them and I'm 64, white, blue collar worker in PA.
Two old white men sitting around taking viagra..... wonder why they need it when women's birth control is not covered by insurance? Ridge is going to have fun on the "Straight talk express" tonight!
I hope we outsource our Presidential Election every 4 years. Let some smart people in China and India figure out who our President should be for us. We sure seem to be doing a terrible job of it, and I am sick of being led by these Idiots that the majority of us have found for us.
Look at this Election so far – There is no business McCain should even be this close.
OBAMA ‘08
Perfect, just like McCain can't remeber from day to day, Ridge couldn't remember how to protect us as homeland security, he just recieved a check for doing nothing.
Ridge is a good person, politically and morally. But Mitt Romney is more appropriate at this time and place. His above average ability to "tell it like it is" and his experience as an executive in state government, plus achievements in economic matters are exactly what McCain needs in a Vice President. McCain's no-nonsense double capabilities in handling domestic and foreign problems vs. the pop-star qualities of his opponent are remarkable. Together, McCain and Romney make the strongest ticket to guide this country through these perilous times.
Just what this country needs...another no-neck, overweight, giblet-necked, neocon, barbeque media lovin' piglican
McCain describing his propensity for violence, even as a youngster, saying, "At the smallest provocation I would go off into a mad frenzy, and then suddenly crash to the floor unconscious."
Oh yeah...America needs this pig in the white house...NOT!!
Hey REALIST NJ,
I just moved to TEXAS and have seen ZERO McCain bumper stickers and many many many Obama ones. Using your logic, I suppose Texas will go blue by a landslide this November! And no, I don't live in liberal-Austin.
To: TX for Obama:
Keep in mind, my friend, McCain-2008 = Dole-1996; they're letting him run against the Bush Disaster.
Remember the movie "Back To School"?
"Hey,......Mellon,.......we need ya!"
"After more than 22 consecutive years of public service, it is time to give personal and family matters a higher priority."
But only for a bit
I cant wait for our next president to get back from vacation!
Fight the smears!
Obama 08!
Isn't this the same Tom ridge who lost an election for the US Senate in 2000? TO A DEAD MAN!!!!!
Color code my world, McBush -
Picking Ridge raises your threat level to a very pale milky white...
Im an old man from town and I will never take it off.
I don't care who he names as Veep, this exDemocrat will vote for McCain. He loves America and will protect her. After this year, and the obvious nomination "fix", I no longer trust democrats. Hillary was cheated, plain and simple.
It might be a good idea to select Ridge, but he won't do it. He's not smart enough. He's afraid of his base. I still have questions of whether Ridge has been vetted. Despite Edwards' issues, Repubs have had a long series of scandals they should seek to avoid repeating.
Only the republicans are so arrogant as to demonize HOPE.
(how do you demonize the spirit of 'yes we can')
ease.. become a republican.
“Call Tom Ridge to Washington from whatever vacation he is taking and get him to work,”
Sounds like a real down to earth hardworking man.
Pawlenty is a better choice for McCain, but it won't matter. Obama takes Virginia and Indiana then it's OVA!
Yo McFly in NJ, your a retard, NJ is going Dem, so whatever your rants are they are meaningless, just crawl in your hole in the arm pit of America and watch your worst nightmare become reality, a Dem in the WH! Annoy a conservative repug, vote DEMOCRATIC!
He'd be a great choice.
Responding to news that Obama's VP choice would be announced by email and text message the same time that it is released to the media, McCain announced that his VP choice will be announced by carrier pigeon, cave paintings, telegraph, tin can phone, and life-alert monitors.
Hey, GOP, get off that pro-life bit. This election is too important to get bogged down in the abortion debate. We need to win in November. The abotion issue is too divisive. There are too many pro-choice voters who would not support a pro-life plank.
Ridge too LIBERAL for GOP base. Good-bye Big Mac, Hello Bob Barr.
Tom, would be bad for the 2nd spot and McCain would be
wrong choice for office. We will have more problem with him
in office and Ridges. We don't need another war in 2009.
Once Pennsylvania finds out that McCain and his lobbyist worked hard to get DHL to outsource to another country, and they got a bunch of money for obtaining it, PA will go the way OH will go, to the blue group. A whole bunch of jobs in OH left the country because of McCain and his lobbyist friends.
LET TOM....BE SEC. ..OF..STATE....
PUT HILLARY IN AS YOUR VICE PRES.......
YOU WILL GET ALL HER 18,000,000 ....VOTES AND A LOT MORE......
BY...BY... O....BOM.....A......
From the point of view of a physician John Mccaine has begun to show signs of pre-senile dementia.In less than two years his symptoms will become more evident.Politics aside the senator is well on his way to being incapacitated very much like our beloved Ronald Reagan.
once again 3rd term Bush!!!!!
Isnt it obvious people
More of the same that's all they know
You know what, I hope McCain wins – and I'm a life long Democrat. Obama and his patriotically impaired wife will never get my vote. The man is so full of himself and so is his wife.
"Better than the ANTICHRIST MORMON Mitt Romney. "
I'm no fan of Romney, saying that about him is just wrong. Please don't lower yourself the Republican standards.
Good choice.McCain's positive image is as a get-to-work kinda guy,and Ridge fits that image too.McCain can't make it or compete with the pop-culture image of Obama,who seems to be suffering from the short attention span of the pop-culture crowd.
All these post really demonstrate how partisan CNN is. Why can't people understand the bennifits of non-partisan media sources, instead of prefering to be fed what they want to hear. And you all post the exact same things.... also it's not intelligent to under exagerate the space Tom Ridge created between him and bush in 04. Also he proved himself in the regan administration to be peace oriented, this is much more important then being part of the Bush administration and becoming frustrated and not returning.
Barr/Huckabee 2008
A real ticket for REAL republicans.
Also, Dick Cheney doesn't like ridge.....
McCain had an affair with Cindy after his wife was disable in a car accident. Why isn't the media in an uproar about that like they are about Edwards' affair?
Hey! Maybe McSame can get Cheney back into his cabinet. Why not Rumsfeld, too? Old times all over again.
Sigh.
Vote whatever party you wish. Just wake up and DON'T vote Republican.
Looks like another Cheney in the making....
McCain told Bush not to criticize China on his trip. He did it anyway.
Dick Cheney doesn't like Ridge.
What a surprise!
Obama has stumbled into a blind date with a nymphomaniac – his luck couldn't be better. All Obama has to do is wait and not do anything tremendously stupid between now and November, and he will win. It doesn't matter who McCain picks for his VP, or who Obama picks. America is tired of Bush and doesn't want four more years of McBush.
McCain can claim he has all the experience in the world. Trouble is he is so darn old he can't remember what he had for breakfast let alone remember anything.
Yawwwnnn........
Nobody is going to change anybodys mind.
We have picked our favorite and the bets are in.
I pray Obama wins. If not, at my age, I figure I only have maybe 15 yrs left of my life sentence on Planet Earth. My children and grandchildren will have the burden and I hope before I go I have a chance to apologize to them. Not for myself, because I know I tried for them.
Obama/Biden
Man. This is will be the War Team if there ever was one.
Democrats seem to want to do as they please and Republicans think they are better than anyone else However, I will have to say, that Republicans are more confident in what they say.
Just Vote for the right man and keep you mouths shut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So many Democrats are so bitter. It's disgusting to read your disrespectful, and ignorant personal attacks on these decent men. Get over it- you lost the last two presidential elections and you'll lose again. Tom Ridge is a good man and did as good a job in that position as anyone else could have.
McCain also met with the Dalai Lama a couple of weeks ago & they had fantastic things to say about each other. Maybe......
Noooo. The McCain ticket will remain flat because of McCain.
Oh yes, Mike in Syracuse, let's please open that Pandora's box about Edwards. Do you really want to go there?
On the Democratic side, we have a guy who cheated on his ill wife with a woman who wasn't wealthy or considerably younger than he. He also ISN'T the presumptive nominee. Obviously he was thinking with his much-smaller head as opposed to the one with a brain it it.
On the Republican side, we have a guy who cheated on his crippled wife with a number of people, finally picking one considerably younger who had scads of money. Then he applied for a marriage license before his divorce was even final. He wasn't only thinking with the much-smaller head; he was thinking with his wallet. Oh yeah, and he's the presumptive nominee for POTUS.
Now, do you really want to see which one wins the slime ball contest? That's the only vote of mine that McCain will get.
McCain and Ridge make a good pair; The Odd Couple ! Wheeeee
Is Tom the guy that suggested using duct tape, and plastic incase of terrorist attack.
YAWN!!! any speculation about Mc(insert pun here)'s VP pick is just not interesting. id rather watch the olympics, GO TEAM USA!
Nobody really cares who Mccain chooses as his VP. They both are going to lose HARD come November so this means absolutely nothing.
It is nice to see Obama out of the picture. I wish he goes permanently. He is destroying our nation. Vote John McCain.
IMHO McCain Liberman would beat any democrat ticket.
McCain has to wait for Obama, the next commander in chief, to make his decision, in other words McCain will react to whomever Obama picks, it just goes to show that McCain is not a leader, he is weak and undecisive. If he cant trust himself to make his own decision as to whom he should pick how can we had him the country to make decisions about War and Peace?.
Go ahead McCain and pick Ridge but keep in mind he was a disaster at the Department of Homeland Security. McCain doesn't have much to choose from.
Our threat level is now mauve.
Even picking Jesus Himself will not help McCane.
As the media are discussing John Edrwards' infidelity, questions about McCane's cheating behind his invalid wife with Cindy should and must come out.
When he met her, he lied to her about his age, and by his own words, "zeroed in on her." You owe it to the integrity of your profession to inform the American people.
It is rediculus that the media discusses the infidelity of a man who is not in in office, nor is he running for president for days now, and ignores John McCane's brutal and inhumane treatment of his invalid ex-wife.
Shame on you CNN. Even if the other news organizations don't tell the American people the truth about John McCane, you should. After all, you are the only one claiming to be the Best Political Team on Television.
p.s. I know you will not print this, but at least discuss the possiblity of shining light on the "character" of John McCain in your staff meetings. Hopefully there will be enough decent journalists left at CNN to see the need for covering the REAL news: John McCane and his abusive behavior towards his ex-wife.
Who cares? He's boring and out of touch!
"You know what, I hope McCain wins – and I'm a life long Democrat."
I hear a lot of people saying that.
Emphasis on the "saying" part. Real easy to say "I'm voting for the Republican, and that should carry some kind of extra weight because I claim to be a life-long Democrat".
Zell Miller was a life long "Democrat" also. Hate to break it to you, but the era of the Dixiecrats has ended.
Whomever McSame selects has a great chance of becoming President if the American's are as stupid as they've been in voting for Bush. I wonder how many are doing better then they were nine years ago. How many lives would have been saved in Iraq and Louisania (Katrina)? How much would our deficit be, compared to what it is today. Anyway, those of you that are still stuck in the 50's – you'll get what you deserve.
Obama 08 & 12
I am confussed..
How did Obama Cheated Hillary out of the nomination?
The one that has more delegates wins? Right?
Tom Ridge is a good man. If he is the VP candidate for McCain, then yyou'd have two people n the Republican ticket more qualified than The Zero.
Lose the Zero
Vote for the Hero.
Regarding presidential ambition, here's what McCain said in his book Worth The Fighting For, p. 373, published September 2002:
I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.
After the Keating 5 he thought all was lost but he used the press to rehabilitate his image and they created the myth of the straight talking maverick (Huffington Post).
Do the Hillary supporters who keep repeating "18 million people support Hillary!" realize that 18 million other people support Obama? If Clinton somehow steals the nomination at the convention, don't expect the 18 million Obama supporters to give her the time of day. If Hillary loses the election for Obama in November, don't expect the 18 million Obama supporters to give her the time of day in 2012. We still can't figure out why we're supposed to support somebody who, with all that vaunted experience, couldn't manage to run a campaign and win.
Well, McCain can choose whomever he likes. The FACTS ARE THAT THE GOP HAS CONTROLLED THE CONGRESS & SENATE FROM 1994-2006...... AND WHAT DID THEY DO?
THEY STARTED A WAR BASED ON LIES.
THEY DOUBLED THE NATIONAL DEBT FROM $5.7 TRILLION TO......ALMOST $10 TRILLION.
THEY GAVE THE WEALTHIEST 1% OF OUR NATION (THANK YOU,BUSH WE LIKED IT) A TAX BREAK.......... WHILE THEY COULD NOT AFFORD TO PAY FOR THE WAR WITH IRAQ AND ASKED CHINA.........SAUDIS........AND DUBAI FOR MONEY!
THE WAR WITH IRAQ IS STILL COSTING HARD-WORKING-AMERCIANS........ $1.38 TRILLION A DAY!
BUT THE FAR RIGHT NEVER ADDRESSES THEIR FAILURES NOR HOW THEY WILL SOLVE THE HUGE MESS BUSH/CHENEY/MCCAIN HAVE LEFT OUR NATION IN!
FOUR MORE YEARS OF THE GOP??? NO THANKS!
GOOD CHOICE FOR YOU MCCAIN. YOU BOTH CAN HOLD HANDS, AS YOU FALL!!!
Please, please, please pick Ridge, Gov. Elevated-threat-level. We all want four more years of that!
Nobama has already brought about change. He has divided the Democratic party like nobody else ever has.
If Nobama can't unite the party then he can never unite the US.
Reject the empty suit who can not function without a teleprompter telling him what to do!
Brian Trinidad McCain can't make it or compete with the pop-culture image of Obama,who seems to be suffering from the short attention span of the pop-culture crowd.
IT doesn't matter what crowd he make it with come November He will be at home Listening to down home BLUES
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McSame there is something on your nose in this pic. yeah, its brown and wet looking.
OH, WORKING ON GETTING SWING VOTES YOU SAY!!!
I hope and pray that McCstank picks Ridge for VP!! That will complete the utter destruction of this idiots presidential campaign bid! lol Whoever is running McCstanks campaign is an IDIOT and if they let McCstank pick him, then he deserves the beating he's in for!!!!! Ridge comes with more baggage than a strung out hooker with 12 kids! The repukelican party's last hoorah! BE DONE WITH YOU TARDS! OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA 08!!!!!
Hillary or McCain '08.
The question everyone should be asking is if the Obama camp knew about the Edwards affair or not?
McCain-Clinton '08
You would have know Idea, what this would mean to me...
A triple!!! But this is your Future (John), USA... Just be choosy... There is no second prize...
John-
"Responding to news that Obama's VP choice would be announced by email and text message the same time that it is released to the media, McCain announced that his VP choice will be announced by carrier pigeon, cave paintings, telegraph, tin can phone, and life-alert monitors."
Sir, that may just be the BEST post I have ever read on these threads!
Tom Ridge has zero credibility. He's become such a joke that I cringe every time he's about t open his mouth (and I'm a die-hard Republican). He can't help John McCain but most definitely can hurt the ticket. Please don't do it, John... my vote for you is hanging by a thread as it is.
I think John needs to cut his ties with the Bush Adminstration.......anyone, anytime,anywhere, anything. Bad choice.... better choice ??? Romney !! Romney should be the pick.
By planning to send supporters ... and all media people that have signed up ... an EMAIL outlining his VP selection, Obama can wait until after the start of the convention to make the announcement and still make it before the VP is scheduled to speak at the convention.
Imagine a world where a political/governmental "secret" is kept until the last possible moment. Hallelujah!!
John McCain may have to committ to his VP before Obama because this shrinks the amount of time McCain will have to prepare around this point for the Republican convention.
Great strategic move by Team Obama ....
Richard J: Since when did the populus depend so much on government to solve their problems?
Since FDR, LBJ, and the rest of the Welfare State.
All who vote for BHO are in this group, those who feel the government should control everything, i.e. COMMUNIST