Somebody just crossed Tom Ridge off the VP list

Tom Ridge was never a likely choice for VP for McCain because of his pro-choice stance (although he was reportedly one of McCain's preferred choices,) but, to me, this sounds like somebody wanted to cross Ridge off the list anyhow.

RollCall reports that Ridge was lobbying for a foreign government(Albania) for two years without registering. (Probably not too big a deal except that Albania's government is now implicated, along with the US Ambassador there, in the illegal smuggling of Chinese ammunition.)

There are tons of ex-officials, unregistered and lobbying, so the timing of the RollCall reveal seems to me like someone is telling McCain to move on from considering Tom Ridge.

(VP politics is a very insider game.)