WP: Cindy McCain played a key role throughout the process of picking a vice president

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/30/AR2008083002377_3.html?sid=ST2008083002400&s_pos=

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She flew into Flagstaff on Wednesday and that night conferred with Schmidt and Salter. On Thursday morning about 7 a.m., she, Salter, Schmidt and a Palin aide climbed into an SUV with tinted windows to begin the 45-minute drive to McCain's retreat in Sedona.

There McCain greeted her, offered her a cup of coffee, and the two of them walked off to a bend in the creek on the property where chairs and a bench rest. The spot is one of McCain's favorites, with a hawk's nest above. McCain and Palin talked alone and then were joined by Cindy McCain.

Aides said Cindy McCain played a key role throughout the process of picking a vice president.

McCain finished up after about an hour. Palin and her aide went to the deck of McCain's cabin. The candidate and his wife went for a walk along the creek. When they returned, McCain held one last session with aides Schmidt and Salter. Then he went over to the deck to offer Palin the job. The deal was sealed "with a handshake, a pat on the back," one adviser said.

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[Qutzupalotl]

1. Oh good. This just gets better and better.

:popcorn:

[AlCzervik]

2. i don't either McCain had a hand in picking anyone. No sale Wapo.

[Tesla]

3. Great now Cindy McCain is pickin our VP

I guess it is better than Cheney's pick

[KittyWampus]

4. they must have compared beauty pageant gossip

[Muttocracy]

5. so Cindy will be chief of staff or what? yeesh. nt

[dkf]

6. Well I guess that shows us Cindy McCain's judgment.

[justiceischeap]

7. Honest question, what are Cindy's qualifications?

She's going to Georgia (the country) to offer suggestions and now she's advising McSame about his VEEP pick? Come on!

[tularetom]

9. She OWNS the little bastard

He'd be selling used cars in Vegas right now without her. The guy was a failure with no future when she latched onto him and her old man's money is what put him into congress in the first place. Do you think the asshole is gonna bit the hand that feeds him? He loves all them houses and the private jet and the credit cards. Get ready for the lovely Cindy to make a lot of decisions if the country is stoopid enough to elect McSenile president.

[RTFirefly]

12. See, he is Reaganesque!

One of my old history professors always said that Nancy was feeding Capt. Alzheimer's lines all the time.

[frogcycle]

8. Maybe Cindy is into threesomes?

on second thought, twosome - grampa is probably deadwood

[madmax]

10. Cindy will be to McInsane

what Nancy was to Raygun

[FarCenter]

11. Sounds right -- didn't think Carly Fiorino or Meg Whitman were that dumb

[ProSense]

13. Wait, they're admitting that? That explains a lot.

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