Much has been made about the secrecy involved regarding Barack Obama and his process for looking into vice president choices. From Thursday’s New York Times:
With the Democratic National Convention only three months away, Senator Barack Obama has asked a tight circle of advisers to begin conducting a confidential search for prospective running mates.
Mr. Obama, who intends to wait until the final primaries end on June 3 before declaring victory in the presidential nominating fight with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, has sworn his advisers to secrecy. The search is in its earliest phases, officials said, and Mr. Obama has asked Jim Johnson, a longtime Democratic hand, to lead the process.
But just about twenty minutes ago, at 1:00pm, on an NPR hourly news update, as I listened to the news item about John McCain’s effort to select a running mate, all I could think about was how it sounded like a pitch for the next season of the reality show, The Bachelor. I don’t know if you’ll be able to find the audio later but as I heard it, they’re describing it as a completely social occasion with hiking and fishing. Florida and Louisiana governors will be there as well as Mitt Romney.
Unbeknownst to me until I went to find the news item at NPR, I located this clip from today, Who in the GOP gets the VP rose? by political strategist Mindy Finn who “was the Director of eStrategy for the Romney for President campaign from March 2007 through February 2008.”
So there you go – John McCain as The Bachelor. Is it us, or is it the media?