An e-mail:

McCain needs to understand that pro-life Catholics, including many so-called Reagan Democrats, would regard his selection of a pro-abortion Catholic as his VP nominee as a stinging slap in the face (as Carl Anderson’s excellent article on the home page ought to make clear). That’s not an argument for selecting a non-Catholic who is pro-abortion — Lieberman would be even worse than Ridge — but it is an argument that McCain shouldn’t fool himself into thinking that he helps himself with Catholics by picking a pro-abortion Catholic.