Posted on 05/21/2008 2:22:52 PM PDT by cdchik123
Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, on Friday is scheduled to meet with two Republican governors who have been prominently mentioned as potential running mates, according to Republicans familiar with Mr. McCain’s plan.
Charlie Crist, the governor of Florida, and Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, have both accepted invitations to meet with Mr. McCain at his home in Arizona, according to Republican familiars with the decision. One Republican said that Mitt Romney, a former rival of Mr. McCain for the presidential nomination — is also expected to visit him this weekend. Mr. Romney’s advisers declined to comment.
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I have to agree with you (yes, pigs are flying, Hell is experiencing a blizzard) that Palin is inexperienced...but in 2012 or 2016, a Jindal/Palin or Palin/Jindal ticket would kick some major butt.
I would like to quibble on one small point. McCain is very likeable. A bit arrogant, but so are most pols (and many fighter jocks) and he looks like a paragon of humility next to Obama. Much of his humor is self-deprecating...if it wasn’t for his politics, I think I would like him very much, but I can’t imagine liking Obama if he were a conservative.
Pocketa, pocketa, pocketa.
Amen, brother!
Try to wrap your mind around that.
Thanks for posting the great picture of a truly great man!
To my way of thinking, he’s too good to be just a Vice President, but I would certainly feel much better about the future of my country with Duncan Hunter that close to the White House.
Would Palin want to leave? She just got elected.
The real question is who does McCain have heading up the VP vetting committee? ;)
If it is Dick Cheney, be very worried. :)
“Agreed, but I think it’s pretty obvious that the conservative Christians do not want Romney, and McCain has got to pick someone who will appeal to those voters.”
You had better qualify that statement. What you mean is that the evangelical fundamentalist Christians don’t want Romney because he is a Mormon. Other conservatives of mainstream religions, such as Lutheran, Catholic, Protestant, etc. don’t seem to have a problem with Romney like the (further qualifying) primarily southern Evangelicals of the Huckster’s ilk have. If McCain puts Romney on the ticket he will gain many more voters than he would lose among the small part of the base of the Pub party that constitute bigoted Evangelicals. Even among the Evangelicals, many are not anti-Romney either, and the bigoted ones are small enough in number as to mean zip in the scheme of things. In other words, if they don’t choose to vote Pub because Romney is on the ticket, it is immaterial. McCain/Romney would win with our without them. Romney will bring with him western states w/large Mormon populations, like Colorado, and of course Utah, and others. He will appeal to Michigan, probably Ohio and even Massachusetts, plus other Midwest states nearby. Romney also brings with him his organization which is incredibly efficient, his mailing lists, his financial fund raising capabilities, his own money, and an impeccable family with no hint of scandal to be seen. McCain would be a fool not to have him be the VP. Karl Rove and George Bush it is rumored, have been advising McCain to choose Romney also, behind the scenes. We’ll see though. McCain has been known to make bad choices just to stick his thumb in the eye of the base. We’ll probably end up with Lieberman.
P.S., the Romney haters are back in business on this thread. They see the word “Romney” and blood starts spurting out of their eyes. FieldMarshalldj, Rome2000, and Eternal Vigilance are the worst offenders in their overt bigotry against Romney and should be ignored when reading any thread that refers to Romney, as it is guaranteed they will be on it and spouting their vituperative comments ad nauseum. Read their comments with a grain of salt or less.
If the ticket is McCain and (any one of the other six billion humans on the planet), the answer is still not only no, but HELL NO!
Add me to that list if you like. His Mormon status is something I am not going to fault him for. His actions over the last twenty years are.
If a guy wants me to take him for a Conservative, then he can rule as a Conservative while holds power. If he comes to me after not ruling as a Conservative, I’m not going to sign on in good faith.
If they want good faith approval, then for goodness sake rule as a Conservative in good faith.
On the bright side, Crist has been tastefully quiet about his preferences, or at least the media has.
In addition, we can breath a sigh of relief that if and when the news breaks, a wife and children won't be destroyed in the process. For that much we can be grateful.
There might be some regional or state pride in having a candidate but I don’t think that has as much influence as it once did. The more important factor is the dynamic that the two create for the ticket. My personal favorite is Sanford but I have a nagging feeling that a McCain / Romney ticket would be a more powerful combination. He would be a great VP.
Fred was my Senator for eight years. No a dime’s worth of difference between him and “Ace” McCain.
Don’t support Obama. No matter how bad McCain can be in his inconsistencies, Obama is worse.
The only “cheapshots” are Romney’s constant lying, and
claiminto be conservative, and his Mormon-followers
en masse attacking anyone for daring to discuss
Romney’s pandaphilic, liberal, lying ways.
Does it ever dawn on you en bloc followers of liberal,lying
Romney, that some conservative FReepers voted for Romney,
and were lied to by him and his DNC-loving, liberal ways?
Apparently not.
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