McCain Weighs Pro-Choice Running Mate

John McCain's campaign has been pitching the idea of a pro-choice running mate to key state GOP officials around the country, reports the National Review. McCain wants to know how hostile conservative grass-roots activists would be and whether he can win their support if he selects a pro-choice VP such as ex-homeland security secretary Tom Ridge.

Apparently not, if the National Review's editors are a reliable belllwether. Ridge "isn’t a conservative who happens to be pro-choice, but rather a moderate who has abandoned conservatives time and again," they contend. As for Joe Lieberman, subject of his own set of hot rumors, "On abortion, he’s just wrong." (More John McCain stories.)