McCain's vice
John McCain is stressing that he isn’t counting Mike Huckabee out yet but the party is now rallying around McCain. Karl Rove has donated the maximum amount allowed to the campaign and President Bush implicitly endorsed McCain today. Huckabee will likely fight on for a while as the happy, anti-establishment warrior but it is virtually impossible to see how he can actually force this thing to the convention.
Attention is now turning to who McCain picks as his VP with various names being floated. My hunch, and a feeling shared by lots of the folk I spoke to in Washington this week, is that McCain will pick someone with the national security credentials to be ready to be president from day one principally because that is the only way to avoid McCain’s age and health becoming major issues in the campaign.