If Cheney's Out in 2004...

...will Tom Ridge be in? Maybe. But Bush risks further alienating his conservative base by picking a pro-choice moderate. And I can picture Ridge in the VP Debate doing about as well as Jack Kemp in 1996. That is to say, poorly.

I suspect if Bush is going to pick a moderate, he'd at least use the demographics of key states such as California and Florida to his advantage. In other words, perhaps a Hispanic/Latino running-mate? But who?

This is all getting ahead of ourselves, of course. There's the Senate to be won back in November, as well as a House to hold. I think the Dems will pick up Bob Smith's Senate seat in NH, so the GOP will need to win against Dem incumbents in SD and MN.

Oh yeah, and it'd be nice to see Reno get squashed by JEB.