FJ!!'s Neglected Personal Blog

I think he really is a maverick. Suspending his campaign, knocking a day off the convention, picking a running mate that was on nobody's short list after only meeting her once: these are all highly unorthodox moves. But a running mate isn't fully his decision to make; he needs to make a choice that will be affirmed by a majority of Republican convention delegates. Hillary Clinton? Heh, he came to be convinced that not even Joe Lieberman would have cleared that hurdle; that was almost certainly McCain's preference and would have helped both his maverick cred and the "inexperience" argument that he had been hammering throughout the summer).