Who will be McCain's partner as Vice President Candidate?

I think he'll need to take a good look at where his strengths and weaknesses lie and then look for a Vice-President who will help him appeal to the constituents who would otherwise not vote for him.

John McCain is a pretty interesting character in as much as he's got an interesting record of snubbing certain elements of his party. He will be able to get independent voters who will like the fact that he's got his opinions and is willing to stick to them, even if they disagree with him. However, he has a long history of animosity against quite a few elements on the GOP - namely the Far Religious RIght. Unforutnately, if Mylot postings are factual, he's been seen with John Hagee, who is an anti-semitic preacher. I think this is an effort to try and pacify the anti-semitic element of the Republican party.

He would be better of looking for a VP candidate who would be able to neutralise this element of the political party. Mit Romney comes to mind. As a Morman with a high standing for sticking to his religious beliefs, few would be able to criticise them for being against religion. More importantly Romney has quite a bit of money and that has always been important for elections.

I don't think anyone in the current Bush Administration would be able to run imediately. Condi Rice has been a disaster at the State department - this is the woman who condoned a blatantly anti-semetic war in Lebanon as being a war against terrorism. She also loses on the Woman and Black front against Obhama or Hillary.

Rudolf Guiliani is an interesting character. This was the man who became a world figure during the 9/11 crisis. However, he's another strong independent character and I don't think he has the right chemistry to be a McCain number two.