The Republicans are salivating at the VP spot.  McCain is going to die in office for sure.  He'll be 72yo at the time fo the Inauguration.

Women aren't respected as much in the muslim world.

Condoleeza Rice is for McCain's VP, not Obama's.  We all know that Obama is a 5th column Muslim bent on destroying the USA.  They said so, on Fox News.

I'm sure Muslim women aren't even allowed by their husbands to vote so we'll only lose half of the Muslim population's vote there, and then another half will be too busy praying all day to make it to the voting booth so I'm not really worried about losing what we never had in votes.

More like all of it. Muslim men wouldn't want a woman president telling/suggesting them on what to do. Muslim women don't vote. We'd be more of a threat to Islam, if we had a woman in charge.

I would rather open a vein than vote for MacCaine

The moment we start catering to the insane and often backwards desires of the Muslim world is the moment we've got nothing left to save in this country of ours.

I am afraid that McCain will drag us into Iran. I want us out of the ME. I want our tax money to go towards healing our country. For the first time ever, I will be voting Democrat this year.

By voting Democrat, you'll ensure that your taxes will be hiked for all sorts of reasons. 

I'm no fan, but I don't think McCain will get us into Iran for two reasons.  First of all, he will be dealing with a hostile Congress.  They've only grudgingly offered any budgetary support for Iraq and would be completely willing to take up any offensive strategy in Iran or elsewhere in the MidEast for the forseeable future.  Secondly, McCain seems to actually understand what Iran is doing.  Economists and analysts have quietly noticed for years now that the more saber-rattling Iran and Russia have been doing, the more their incomes have been padded to.  Both of them are major players in the oil and gas market, and by promoting instability, they can scare up the price of their only export.  McCain sees this, having mentioned it in at least one speech last year.  He will talk the talk because he has to, but it appears that he knows full well that Iran's game is the same sort of brinksmanship that Iraq played to perfection throughout the 1990s, and that veteran seems disinclined to commit boots on the ground in an offensive fashion.

I have my problems with Senator McCain, and they'd be hard to swallow.  But I'd be compelled to vote for him over either of the socialists he'd be running against.

I am no fan of getting into Iraq in the first place. Frankly, i think we never should have. However, to walk out now or somehow think we can just ignore the middle east is a big mistake. I suggest you better think what Iran will do when they realize the Americans just want to surrender and run away. The real threat to the middle east was never Iraq or Saddam but Iran.

1. Anti-Mormon sentiment is still deep-seated in the country, as the results ultimately showed. A Mormon running-mate is a risky gamble, and McCain has no room for error.

2. McCain and Romney can't stand each other. Romney's endorsement of McCain two days ago had to happen politically, but did you watch the announcement? They are uncomfortable with each other and really don't like each other very much.

3. Romney is a northeastern governor. McCain will almost certainly choose a Southern Governor, like Haley Barbour of Mississippi to balance out the ticket.

4. Although nominally a Southern governor, Huckabee is not a suitable running mate because of his liberal (or "populist," if you prefer) track record as governor of Arkansas. He also scares people outside of activist evangelism almost as much as people's (misguided) perceptions of Mormons in high office. Huckabee would be a risky gamble as a running mate.

You heard it here first! I'm calling the current governor of Mississippi to be McCain's running mate. Haley Barbour.

5. An interesting wrinkle in all this is the fact that senators simply aren't elected as president. They run in droves every four years, but the last one was Kennedy, and he beat Nixon by a razor thin margin and most analysts believe that Nixon would have won without the blatant and rampant cheating in Chicago and Lousiana. The only other senator was Warren G. Harding (pre-Depression). Otherwise, they are almost always governors, probably because governors have a proven track record being an executive of a large government.

Yet, we will have senators in each corner this year, ensuring that the next president is a senator. Romney won the conservative votes, and McCain won pluralities with moderates and cross-over voters in open primaries. That's just how it worked out this time around.