Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge will serve as national co-chair of Republican John McCain’s presidential exploratory committee, the campaign said Wednesday.
This would probably be more impactful if Tom Ridge was still DHS Chair. McCain’s candidacy could really benefit from timely terror threat warnings. For example, “DHS Secretary Tom Ridge raised the terror threat level to “Severe” after new polls showed Giuliani with a 23-point lead someone found a firecracker in Pakistan.”
On a different note, this paragraph from the same AP article indicates a tremendous shift in where Conventional Wisdom ranks the Republican field.
McCain, once seen as the Republican front-runner, has been leading the GOP presidential field in endorsements, but increasingly lags behind former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in polls of Republican voters.
Now, granted, this is an AP wire story and not, say, the latest piece by David Broder or Jim VandeHei. But clearly McCain’s candidacy is free-falling in the polls and the eyes of reporters covering the race.
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McCain officially announces his bid on David Letterman tonight. (As opposed to on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Isn’t Letterman’s audience, and CBS’, among the oldest of all the major networks?)
Left by Matt Ortega
February 28, 2007 at 7:46pm