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 A space capsule carrying ashes of 160 people crashed in the ocean. A lesson in minding your own business ... at 30,000 feet. The death toll in the Texas floods has risen to 27, including 9 kids. Desperate search for missing campers continues in Texas. Report an error