August 13, 2008, 2:49pm

Southern Baptist Leader: Say It Ain’t Joe (But Cantor’s Kosher)

By Daniel Treiman

Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a titan of the religious right, has some ideas on which Jews would make good number twos for John McCain.

Land tells CBSNews.com:

I think that the vice presidential choice that John McCain makes is probably the most important choice he’s going to make in this entire campaign. Because he has no room for error, no margin for doubt. If he picks a pro-choice running mate, it will confirm the unease and the mistrust that some evangelicals — and don’t forget this, social conservative Catholics — feel about McCain.

That, of course, means Joe Lieberman’s out. Land explains:

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