Pressuring The Quintet

John McCain is keeping close counsel on his vice presidential musings. Only five staffers -- campaign chief Rick Davis and advisers M. Salter, M. McKinnon, S. Schmidt and C. Black -- are officially privy to the official thinking from The Man. The five have sworn to each other not to leak.

(Surely, McCain will -- and has -- talked about the choice to his friends, and surely, he is apt to small talk about it at fundraisers, where donors feel emboldened to offer up their suggestions).

That's why this paragraph in Bill Kristol's column today drew my eye:

"....In separate conversations last week, no fewer than four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal."

How this reads, to me, is that these staffers were (a) impressed by Jindal (obviously!) and (b) want to figure out a way to convey this impression to McCain (who reads his friend Bill) and to the senior staffers in the campaign who have taken a vow of silence on the pick. So consider the great Jindal mentioning a way to put some public pressure on McCain himself and those who are advising McCain on the pick.