“Remember, he is old. A lot will depend on who he picks as his veep.”
How so? It is irrelevant who is his VP. McCain makes the decisions, his VP is only for window dressing (attending funerals etc). Are you seriously saying that his VP can convince McCain to make policy changes, such as reject Amnesty?
No way.
Also, if Pres. McCain retires in 4 years (after passing all major liberal policy goals, including amnesty, closing Gitmo, appointing liberal judges, raising taxes), his VP hardly is in a good shape against a conservative Governor.
“How so? It is irrelevant who is his VP. McCain makes the decisions, his VP is only for window dressing (attending funerals etc). Are you seriously saying that his VP can convince McCain to make policy changes, such as reject Amnesty?”
I agree totally with this, but there is a higher-than-normal chance that a McCain VP would become president during McCain’s term.
More generally Freepers need to remember that the current power/participation that Cheney exercises in this administration is unprecedented and also something we may not see again in our lifetimes. I have read comments by Harry Truman implying that he had less idea what was going on in policy areas during the months he was VP *in the middle of a war and knowing damn well he would become president soon* that it is evident that Cheney does now.