Mitt Romney wants the job:
Mitt Romney said in his first interview since departing the GOP race that he would accept the number two position on the ticket and that there is no lingering bitterness between him and John McCain.
"I think any Republican leader in this country would be honored to be asked to serve as the vice presidential nominee, myself included," Romney told FOX's Sean Hannity in a broadcast set to air tonight. "Of course this is a nation which needs strong leadership. And if the nominee of our party asked you to serve with him, anybody would be honored to receive that call ... and to accept it, of course."
As heartwarming as that is, I don't believe McCain has extended the olive branch to Mittens just yet. And although Romney made a heroic effort to rebrand himself as "the conservative's conservative," he doesn't salve McCain's largest wound -- the hostility of much of the conservative base towards him. McCain is more likely to choose someone who reinforces his conservative bona fides, rather than casts doubt upon them.
--Mori Dinauer
