Posted on 08/07/2012 9:08:03 PM PDT by tsowellfan
Joe Biden’s second week-long vacation in little over a month is fueling speculation that President Barack Obama may be preparing to make a change in his running mate.
"The Vice President and Dr. Jill Biden will be in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. There are no public events scheduled," Biden’s White House schedule reads. A month ago, Biden and his wife, took the week of July 4 to vacation, also in Rehoboth Beach, the Weekly Standard reported.
“Biden's second week-long vacation in as many months is likely to fuel speculation that President Barack Obama is considering dropping the veteran politician from the ticket this election,” the Standard commented.
“Biden's frequent errors and gaffes in office and on the campaign trail have been the source of much consternation for the Obama administration, and have resulted in strong calls for Biden to be dropped from the ticket.”...
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What if Joe didn’t want to do it, and so Obama cut off the utilities to the VP’s residence? /half-joking
You nailed it.
Yeah.....I wanna see Romney featuring this in the campaign...
Didn't you hear?
The Romney-led Bain Capital group shut down a steel mill a decade ago and gave Joe cancer.
Panic often makes people do something , even if it’s wrong.
By replacing Biden some badly needed vitality and renewed energy can be injected to the campaign. If Opra is the new candidate, the stadium would certainly be filled for the acceptance coronation
Certainly Biden is a liability at this point. Any VP Romney picks is sure to destroy him in a debate and the debates are going to be critical for Obama. The Romney pick, while likely to be boring, will almost certainly come across better than Biden who is a buffoon.
So if Romney comes out of the convention with a lead in the polls, Obama will come under considerable pressure to dump Biden and juice up the ticket.
Choosing Hillary seems like a no-brainer but I'm not sure how well that will go over with the black vote. There are still bitter feelings from the 2008 campaign and many blacks may stay home with her on the ticket.
No doubt there will be a media frenzy if this were to occur and the left-wing base will go nuts. But those people were never in the GOP camp to begin with so really, how many votes would Romney lose if Obama dumps Biden and chooses Hillary?
An Obama/Hillary ticket is a scary thought to any reasonably conservative American so it might well energize the GOP/Independent vote who have thus far been lukewarm over Romney. Biden is an idiot but he doesn't scare people the way Hillary will. Nobody on the conservative side is worried about Biden running for president in 2016.
Wouldn’t dropping Biden be like a really ugly chick getting a boob job on the theory that the new hooters will draw attention away from her face?
Probably not there's already one at the top of the ticket.
Nope, not Lizzy Warren... Colin Powell. That’s why the recent noise on Patreaus.
If not Hillary, name your candidate to replace Biden:
Sandra Fluke
Van Jones
Barny Frank
Kim Kardashian
Michael Moore
Bill Mahr
Sean Penn
George Clooney
Jessica Sarah Parker
Deval Patrick (current governor of MA)
Larry Sinclair?
This is no different than the silly, misinformed speculation Bush would drop Cheney.
Ain't gonna happen, people.
Obama can’t just drop Biden without a good excuse, like perhaps inoperable hairplug cancer.
His new running mate might be Larry Sinclair, but the search commitee is looking for a gay latino woman who is a union teacher under the age of 30 here illegally.
That was pretty funny but you have to get Alex Okrent in there somewhere. He was ‘offed’ too.
Sorry brother, but if I gotta suffer, you gotta suffer right along with me ;-)
LOL - I owe you one.
I know!
That's what I'm scared of...
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