Wolfson: Voters Will Ask Why Obama Didn’t Pick Clinton

by Walter Alarkon - 08/29/08 10:41 AM ET

Howard Wolfson, the spokesman for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) failed presidential bid, suggested that John McCain’s veep pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) could reopen old wounds.

“If the pick is indeed Sarah Palin you are going to have a lot of women voters wondering why Senator Obama didn’t tap Senator Clinton as his running mate,” Wolfson wrote on The Plank.

Wolfson had earlier argued on The New Republic’s blog that a woman veep selection would reestablish McCain’s reputation as a maverick. Wolfson, however, had another name, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, in mind.

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