The Trouble with Ridge - It's not just abortion.(Thomas J. Ridge as possible vice-presidential candidate)

THE worst moment in Tom Ridge's campaign to become George W. Bush's running mate may have come in a state where Ridge doesn't live and at an event he didn't attend. Bush was sitting in the second row at St. Patrick's Cathedral during John Cardinal O'Connor's funeral Mass on May 8 when Bernard Cardinal Law, giving the homily, declared that the Catholic Church "must always be unambiguously pro-life." If Bush learned anything from listening to the loud applause that lasted for about two minutes following the remark, it's this: The GOP nominates a pro-choice Catholic for vice…