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I agree about Bobby Jindal being a good choice for VP. He is a conservative, young, and a "minority"....so he possesses assets that McCain doesn't have (Mac isn't a strict conservative, he is old, and he is white).
I don't think Jindal is a likely pick.
He's a member of a minority group that has no political weight, personally speaking, he has absolutely no gravitas and his state means nothing in the general. He wouldn't add anything substantive to the ticket in the way of operating experience (ala the Cheney/Bush interplay). No, Jindal is all pain, no gain.
Really, I cannot see how Mel Martinez wouldn't get the first offer, unless McCain does something wild and offers it to Paul. That might be risky, though, seeing Ron Paul has some pretty rabid supporters and if the only thing that stood between Paul and the presidency was a living, breathing John McCain, well, that probably wouldn't bode too well for McCain
Paul would never accept. To join McCain, Paul would have to compromise his morals. Something far too many polticians find easy. But Paul would never do it.
I don't care who he chooses. No VP can make Juan McShame enticing in any way for me to vote for him. 3rd party here, and though I realize 3rd party won't win, I can no longer identify with the Republican party and certainly not the Dems either. War and socialism is all I see when I look at the 2 parties.
It will be Charlie Crist of Florida. Crist just passed a tax cut and Florida has a mix of people from all over.
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although he's indicted on 35 counts by the US Grand Jury for now. 
Who will McCain's running mate be?
