re: #275 captdiggs

His mistake was Palin. Granted, she really doesn’t much more foot-in-mouth than Biden, but she was a mistake.
Had he picked Lieberman or Tom Ridge I think he would have won.

No. There would have been a meltdown on the convention floor, because the Catholic conservatives (and other theocon allies) were poised to stage a revolt in the delegations led by Katherine Jean Lopez from the National review and also Jean Kirkpatrick. Both Lieberman and Tom Ridge are pro choice, so the anti abortion activists were ready to sink the convention.