Report: McCain has picked VP; McCain: No I haven’t

Thu, August 28, 2008 - 9:56 AM

CNN and other media outlets reported this morning that Sen. John McCain has chosen a running mate and would likely reveal him or her soon.

But McCain refuted the story and declined to even hint at which way he was leaning during an interview with a Pittsburgh radio station.

In other "McCain/Someone else 2008" news, Karl Rove allegedly approached Sen. Joe Lieberman and asked the Connecticut senator and former Democratic vice presidential candidate to call McCain and request to be removed from consideration for the VP slot. Lieberman reportedly declined.

Finally, Republican Mike Huckabee, another potential McCain running mate, appeared on the Colbert Report last night and gave a surprisingly positive assessment of the Democratic convention so far. Huckabee, now an analyst for FOX News, gave high marks to speeches by Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton. Huckabee and Colbert bantered about the former Arkansas governor's chances for being McCain's vice president, and Huckabee likened Obama's choice of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate to "going into Baskin Robbins and ordering vanilla."

-- Mark Young