President John McCain?

The current issue of Washingtonian Magazine (February 2007) has a fictional article in it on how John McCain becomes president in 2008. It was a fascinating read with some interesting factual stingers, most notably how Joe Biden can't seem to keep his foot out of his mouth (articulate, indeed!).

The article describes how the Democrats go into their convention deadlocked with John Edwards, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton all with large numbers of delegates but not enough to capture the nomination. Clinton finally releases her delegates to Edwards after securing a promise that he will pick Obama as his running mate. Clinton returns to the Senate and a place in history.

McCain has wrested the nomination away from Rudy Giuliani and asked Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty to run as his vice president. The general election race is on. On October 31, a terrorist attack strikes in St. Louis and it reminds the nation that Edwards and Obama may not be ready. McCain wins the election a week later.

The article uses actual statements from McCain and weaves an impressive story and goes to show how entertaining the next two years are going to be. But I still think that McCain will not be the Republican nominee, regardless of what happens.