ST. PAUL — Last spring, Tom DeLay’s wife Christine announced publicly that she would not be voting for Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Instead, she said, she will be voting for Libertarian candidate Bob Barr.
But in his first interview about McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, the former House majority leader tells Newsmax that his wife now says she may be voting for McCain.
“It’s not because Sarah Palin is a woman,” DeLay says when asked how McCain’s choice will affect the votes of women. “It’s because he chose someone with strong conservative principles and character.”
Since leaving Congress in 2006, DeLay has formed First Principles, a political consulti | 
