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corner.nationalreview.com - 8/19/2008
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It is being widely reported that John McCain will announce his Veep pick on August 29, the day after the Dem Convention in Dayton, Ohio. My immediate thought is Rob Portman. Portman is a former Republican House member who served as President Bush's special trade representative and also served in the Bush Administration as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He is a ...

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News — ... (R) and former Rep. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) as strong pro-life picks, McCain is calling state Republican officials to sound out the possibility that he'll choose a pro-choice running mate, writes The Corner's ...

Daily Blog Buzz: Veep Talk
Weekly Standard Blog — ... his VP on the 29th is sure to distract the media from obsessing over his age and take some of the afterglow away from Obama's historic nomination speech." Who will it be? While Marc Ambinder provides hints for determining a veep, at Contentions, Jennifer Rubin says we can be sure that it will be "someone McCain trusts deeply and who would be a credible commander-in-chief." The bloggers at The Corner note some of the many possibilities: Mitt Romney? Rob Portman? Rudy Giuliani? A pro-choice politician? We'll find ...

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