Crist and Kaine, the meeting of the veeps?

UPDATE: The availability was cancelled.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, in DC for the National Governors' Association, has scheduled a meeting - followed by a press availability - this afternoon with Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat, whose name, like Crist's, has been floated as a potential vice presidential candidate.

The Crist speculation makes the New York Times and the Washington Post today. The Times notes some political analysts are suggesting McCain, 71, needs a youthful running mate and that "quite a few of the names being bandied about are those of politicians in their 40s and 50s," including "Crist, 51, whose well-timed endorsement helped Mr. McCain win the crucial swing-state’s primary."

And Post columnist George Will includes Crist in a column musing about potential running mates for McCain.

"In politics, gratitude is optional but admirable, and McCain is indebted to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist,  51, who endorsed him on the eve of his state's primary," Will writes. "Because the disastrous recent performance of Ohio's Republican Party will make it difficult for McCain to hold that state's 20 electoral votes, which Bush won, McCain must keep Florida's 27. Crist won the 2006 Republican gubernatorial primary 64 to 33 even though, as Michael Barone writes in his Almanac of American Politics, that election was notably unpleasant: 'Here a candidate was attacked for being both gay and for fathering a child out of wedlock.'

"Crist remains popular," Will says, "But not more so than his predecessor, Jeb Bush, 55. Bush, however, seems determined to take a sabbatical from politics. And it might seem tribal to have a Bush on the national ballot for a seventh time in eight elections."

As for Kaine, he's been described by the Associated Press as "another Democrat who ran as a moderate and proved he can win in a state that leans Republican in presidential elections. Virginia, too, is a potential swing state that he could help turn Democratic. Kaine, 49, backed Obama early."