By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times:Call it a tryout
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will campaign solo in Pennsylvania for Sen. John McCain, and the question everyone has to be wondering is whether this is a tryout for the vice presidential nomination.
**Romney lost to McCain in the race for the Republican nomination, but has since made it clear he'd love to still be on the ticket with McCain.
The two men have already campaigned together in Utah, but [tonight's] dinner, with the Lancaster County Republican Committee, gives Romney a chance to show how he can do flying solo on behalf of McCain. That, of course, is exactly the role of a vice presidential nominee, and for that matter of a vice president.
Romney moved from being the harshest critic of McCain to being one of his chief cheerleaders. But as my colleague, Ralph Z. Hallow, reported last week, social conservatives are warning McCain he should look elsewhere for his Number Two.
It will be interesting to see who else gets a similar invitation to be an official McCain surrogate — for example, Mike Huckabee, the darling of religious conservative voters, who McCain will need to tap into.
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