Opinion: Rudy Giuliani out of the VP picture

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Even if John McCain really is thinking about announcing his vice presidential choice this week to grab some of the spotlight from the globe-trotting Barack Obama, you can pretty much count out Rudy Giuliani as a candidate. If anyone ever counted him in.

‘I am not on the short list. I don’t want to be on the short list,’’ Giuliani replied, when asked by NBC’s David Gregory on the ‘Today’ show if he would make a suitable running mate. ‘Sen. McCain has some excellent choices.’’

As our colleagues at The Swamp point out, the former New York mayor’s pro-choice and pro-gun control views (not to mention his marriage history or ‘sanctuary city’ stance) made him a problematic Republican prospect for a running mate.

And after banking heavily on Florida during the Republican primaries -- only to finish third there before quitting the race -- Giuliani is by no means a proven GOP presidential vote-getter.

-– Stuart Silverstein