I Don’t Appreciate Your Ruse, Sir

By Kleinheider Posted on July 22, 2008 at 6:50 am

Sharon Cobb is not buying that John McCain will be choosing his runningmate this week. Her reasoning is simple:

To wit, yesterday afternoon, someone high up in the McCain campaign leaked to Robert Novak that McCain would make his choice for VEEP known this week.

Will that happen? No.

The ONLY reason to do it this week is to take the focus off of Obama’s foreign affairs victories, because McCain thought that was Obama’s weakest issue.

That said, there is no advantage other than the above, and that’s not enough.

McCain has the advantage going into the Veepstakes, because his convention is a week after Obama’s, and McCain will have the advantage of knowing who the Democratic VEEP is, therefore knowing whether to put a woman on the ticket instead of Romney.

CONCURRING OPINIONS:
Daniel Larison
Real Clear Politics
FiveThirtyEight
LA Times
Wall Street Journal

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