Months ago I predicted that McCain would choose "Governor Tim" Pawlenty of Minnesota as VP candidate. I now believe it will be Mitt Romney who is better accepted by the Republican's conservative base.

Pawalenty will not be able to bring liberal Mennesota to McCain anyway, and Bob Barr probably will not drop out if a liberal like Pawlenty is the nominee. Last polls I saw showed Obama and McCain at about 43-44% each with Bob Barr pulling about 8-10% is some states. There are probably fewer than 10 states that are really "in play" (no Republican can ever win California or New York again, for example) and Barr may do what Ross P-Rot did in 1992: hand the Democrats a victory with only 43.01% of the vote. Hopefully, Barr will feel he did OK and pushed the choice of VP right, and drop out.