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Can We End Talk of McCain/Pawlenty Yet?

By Paul Chesser on 2.27.08 @ 5:53PM

Robert Novak reports that Sen. John McCain visited (behind closed doors) with Republicans at the National Governors Association over the weekend, where "governors from coal- and oil-producing states spelled out their problems with McCain's energy policies, and he was responsive."

Novak says there was one significant exception, however, to the perceived fence-mending, and that had to do with an oft-mentioned name to join McCain as VP on the GOP ticket:

As well it should have. With two global warming alarmists on the same ticket, you can pretty much say farewell to the conservative vote.

topics:
John McCain, Global Warming, Energy, Oil