Republican presumptive Presidential candidate John McCain today told a hastily assembled St. Paul, Minnesota news conference that his 38th choice for the Vice Presidency, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, "enthusiastically" accepted his invitation to join the Republican ticket.
"It got a little embarrassing there," Sen. McCain admitted. "For a while, I was like, gosh, doesn't anybody want to be Vice President in this country, or what?"
Sen. McCain's first 37 choices all rejected the offer "in seconds, because none of them thought I could beat Obama," a red-faced McCain acknowledged. "They all thought, why risk being blamed? They wanted to preserve their chances for 2012."
Among the 37 Republicans and others who declined Sen. McCain's offer of a spot on the ticket were former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Connecticut Senator Joe Leiberman, former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre, TV chef Emeril, recording artist 50 Cent, former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath, actress Liv Tyler, Barney the Dinosaur, John McCain's wife Cindy, an unnamed bartender at Sky Harbor Airport Terminal C in Phoenix, New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the surviving members of the cast of 1960s TV sitcom Gilligan's Island.
"I know Vice President isn't a glamorous job," Sen. McCain admitted. "You mostly go to funerals of foreign leaders, unless you're inventing the Internet like Al Gore or running America like Dick Cheney. But the job is frankly what you make of it, and I would have thought I could find someone who had some sort of stature or name recognition or even came from a state where there are more electoral votes than caribou.
"But beggars can't be choosers, so I'm really glad Governor, um, what's her name, from Alaska, has graciously agreed to join me on the ticket."
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