Republican presidential candidate US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (R), speaks to reporters as his wife, Cindy, looks on at Mi Tierra Restaurant in San Antonio, Texas March 4,2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Now that Mike Huckabee has conceded and Sen. John McCain is headed to the Republican Party presidential nomination, the question he must consider is: who will be his running mate?

McCain and several senior campaign advisers claim there is no short list of names, and no process to help him make his choice – merely a process to find a process.