Politics | John McCain McCain Weighs Pro-Choice Running Mate By Dustin Lushing Posted Aug 19, 2008 9:20 AM CDT Copied Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., waves as he boards the Straight Talk Air campaign charter airplane, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) 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." Read These Next New York Times ranks the best movies of the 21st century. A man has been deported for kicking an airport customs beagle. White House rolls with Trump's 'daddy' nickname. Actor Sam Rockwell gets residuals from movie he wasn't in. Report an error