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Former Vice President Dick Cheney says it was a mistake for Republican Sen. John McCain to pick Sarah Palin as his vice presidential nominee. Cheney says he liked Palin, but that she didn't pass the test of being ready to be president and that McCain's campaign didn't handle the vetting process well.

The GOP primary in Indiana between Sen. Richard Lugar and state Treasurer Richard Mourdock splits the party's 2008 presidential ticket.

Gloria Borger says Romney is likely to have learned a lesson from McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate.

They were at each others' throats at this time four years ago, but John McCain stood beside Mitt Romney today to endorse his former opponent in the New Hampshire primary. McCain, who defeated George W. Bush here in 2000 and beat Romney in 2008, said, "it's with some nostalgia that I return to this place that I love so well" -- but his main job is to help "make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States." Granite State voters, he said, can help Romney wrap up the GOP nomination quickly.

One of the Senate nominees singled out by GOP Sen. John McCain during a tongue-lashing that compared the Tea Party movement to hobbits is responding ...

Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, took aim Sunday at the field of contenders for the 2012 GOP nomination, accusing them of "isolationism." "We cannot repeat the lessons of the 1930s, when the United States of America stood by while bad things happened in the world," McCain said in an interview with ABC's "This Week."

Challenged by by J.D. Hayworth from the airwaves, and soon in a primary, John McCain has moved starkly, and often awkwardly, to the right.

Top Republican lawmakers today called on President Obama to change his political strategy, arguing that the passage of a massive stimulus bill on a party-line vote showed he has failed to deliver the "change" he promised. Sen. John McCain told CNN's "State of the Union With John King" that the president was off to "a bad beginning." Sen. Lindsay Graham was blunter: "If this is going to be bipartisanship, the country's screwed."