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RUSH: Bob in Latham, New York. Thank you, sir, for your patience. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019m going to bring up a subject that I think Democrats and Republicans need to at least put on the table for discussion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: McCain has had melanoma.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is a very bad kind of a cancer, and therefore I think the choice of the Republican running mate may really be important this year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re talking publicly about what a lot of them are whispering. People are talking about this, they\u2019re just not doing so publicly because it\u2019s not politically correct. Now, one thing before you go forward on this, I\u2019ve read a lot about Senator McCain\u2019s melanoma and his health prognosis, and the doctors who have operated on Senator McCain say it\u2019s gone and he\u2019s gone long enough without a recurrence that the odds of a recurrence continue to get less and less and less as more and more time piles up. I looked into some details on his surgery. They actually took out a lot more tissue than was infected or that was cancerous I think as a mechanism to stop it dead in its tracks, and there are a lot of people who think they have. But still, people are whispering about it, and they are saying what you just said, that\u2019s why we need a younger vice president, hopefully somebody who\u2019s conservative. You got somebody in mind that you like?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I personally like Romney a lot. I think that he\u2019s very telegenic, he\u2019s very intelligent, you know, he\u2019s a can-do kind of a guy. I don\u2019t mean to spout the line, but I have a lot of respect for him, and I think that he\u2019s articulate, which is something I think we really need. But, you know, the Democrats will use the health issue to sow doubt in the electorate mind, and I think if the McCain people and the Republicans don\u2019t put somebody who can really carry the mantle of the presidency, then that doubt will be enough that people will think they can\u2019t choose him for four to eight years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Perhaps so. You may be right. I think they\u2019ll focus on age more than they do health. There\u2019s certainly some elements the Drive-Bys and the Democrats will sneak in the health note, but they\u2019ll focus on age, which they\u2019ve already been doing. But, look, the McCain camp knows this. They\u2019re already battling this age business, they\u2019re out making speeches his mother shows up with him in a campaign appearance today in Mississippi, and his mother was out there with him. His mother is in her nineties, and of course the message there is that he has a terrific gene pool. So they\u2019re aware of this, I\u2019m sure, at the McCain campaign. Now, everywhere I go, because people think I, as a powerful, influential member of the media and a well-known political analyst and figure ask me who I think McCain\u2019s vice president nominee is. I haven\u2019t the slightest idea, ladies and gentlemen. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not wired into any campaign, and I haven\u2019t the slightest idea, and I don\u2019t think right now that the McCain people are even seriously thinking about it. This has not stopped Drive-By journalists from writing speculative pieces about this. On Saturday, Robert Novak floated a name that said he\u2019s considerably high on the list, and that would be Rob Portman from Ohio. Now, I happen to know Rob Portman. He was the freshman class of 1994, a Republican. He has been in the diplomatic corps. He was a trade representative. He served in Congress, so he\u2019s been executive, legislative, there\u2019s two other areas in which he served — Bush 43 — oh, he\u2019s the former OMB director, Office of Management and Budget. I met him for the first time at the orientation for the House freshmen in \u201994 up in Baltimore, but I met him again at a dinner at Vice President Cheney\u2019s house last November. He was there with his wife, and she\u2019s a hoot. They\u2019re quite the couple. In terms of conservatism, quality guy, good family. He would be a great pick. <\/p>\n

Now, in terms of would he help the ticket with votes, I don\u2019t know how many people know who he is. Another name that\u2019s on the list is Mark Sanford, southern governor. McCain showed during the primaries when Huckabee was still in there he\u2019s going to have a little trouble with the evangelical crowd in southern states. So the thinking is he needs a southern governor. Mark Sanford, South Carolina, is a name that pops up. However, we hear that in 2000 Mark Sanford supported McCain but did not support him in 2008, and McCain is not happy about that. This is just what people are saying. I don\u2019t know if any of this is true, but this is the scuttlebutt that you get. Then of course the name Charlie Crist, the governor of Florida, surfaces, because of the perceived value of his endorsement of McCain during the Florida primary. But the conventional wisdom there — and of course I always go against the conventional wisdom — the conventional there is that McCain\u2019s not going to need Crist to win Florida like he might need somebody to win Ohio or might need somebody to win southern states with a significant evangelical population. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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