At a Blogs 4 Life conference at the Family Research Council a little while ago, Hadley Arkes reminded me that in 2000 John McCain floated Warren Rudman as his attorney general:

Appearing. on CNN’s “Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields” on January 15, McCain was asked what he would do as President to keep six-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez in the United States. He converted the question into an opportunity to float Rudman as his attorney general nominee. Said McCain: “If I had an attorney general, I’m sure that that attorney general would-maybe even Warren Rudman-would find away.”

How about Senator McCain tells us whom he wouldn’t have in his administration? No Lieberman for veep. No Warren Rudman for AG. (No L. Graham for AG either.)