The Best McCain VP to fill social Conservative appetite?

I agree.if mcain takes the evangelical vote for granted he will lose them

The VP pick is a big conundrum for MCain. He needs some wow factor, as Obama is shown way ahead in Electoral Votes in the current polls - www.fivethirtyeight.com - for what polls are worth....

Obama just needs to pick someone safe so it's still about Obama. McCain has to wiegh offending conservatives against alienating moderates. If he picks a centrist like Carly Fiorna, Mike Bloomberg, or Tom RIdge, the right will be enraged. If he picks an obvious right-winger like Sanford, Jindal, or Graham, it scars his maverick/centrist image and also could cost the election...

The downside to picking Huckabee is that it hurts with moderates and only helps 50% with conservatives. Club For Growth type conservatives are not happy with Huck. So a Huck VP would do more harm than good

My List for McCain VPs:

Condoleeza Rice- the only problem is that she is working with Bush.

Bobby Jindal- He is a little too new to national politics,but he would work anyways.

Mike Huckabee- he will bring in some of those social conservatives. even though he wont win any because of him McCain will be able to some swing states by keeping voters away from Bob Barr (libertarian) and Chuck Baldwin (constitution).

It could work, but I do not think so. Huckabee sort of burned himself with that crack at the NRA meeting.

Jindal would be a much better choice; conservative, young, a minority, and since he is from LA, the whole issue of how the Feds responded to Katrina will be off the table. Jindal is the guy cleaning up after them.

Mike Huckabee will not add one additional State to the McCain win column. Maybe a financially astute person with Conservative credentials and media savvy ... Steve Forbes.

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Just as Bill Clinton chose a moderate Southerner, Al Gore, McCain should choose someone who is ideologically close to him.

With the things that McCain has said about the religious right. It just not going to happen. People don't like McCain the man, so no matter who he picks it not going to help him in those circles.

Lucky for him Hilary Democrats will decide this race in his favor.

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In my opinion, McCain is going to pick a woman or a person of foreign or black heritages. Like Bobby Jindal.

Polls are showing McCain is in BIG trouble with his base. If he does not make them happy he will lose this election. (Personally I think he loses anyways....but he certainly will not do it by picking a VP that will further anger conservatives).