Posted on 06/03/2008 8:26:49 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
If Obama picks Hillary as a veep runningmate, who can John McCain pick as a runningmate to squash the Democrats' "dream team?"
Oh yeah, Crist is definitely in the closet.
Putting him on the ticket wont give McCain Florida. We are SO not happy with Crist. He’s not Bush Lite. He’s just Lite.
Still wish Fred Thompson would come back...
Although I'm sure McCain will do his darnedest not to take the only big advantage they would be handing him. Expect him to run to the left of center instead.
Face it, Obama now needs a V.P. with the squeaky clean image he himself had a few months ago. I find it hard to imagine him picking Clinton. While McCain needs to throw conservatives a bone with his V.P. pick. But I won't be holding my breath.
He may have the right views and a winning personality, but does he have any experience at anything besides acting?
Many closeted types have had brief marriages for their bios. Look at McGreevey.
Rick Perry couldn’t get elected as dog catcher after he presided over the nightmare with the FLDS. He took the side of TX CPS in rounding up all those innocent children at gunpoint. He is toast. Kind of like Jeb Bush who presided over the dehydration/starvation death of Terri Schiavo. There are consequences when those in power trample the weak, not to mention the Constitution.
Janice Rogers Brown
I was absolutely HORRIFIED watching John McCain’s speech tonight. He looked awful and sounded worse. If he doesn’t pick Mitt Romney for VP, we are doomed, I tell ya, doomed!
Also, I watched Hillary Clinton’s speech tonight and I gotta tell ya, she was brilliant. Obama’s speech was so so, an empty shirt.
How about onr of these great friends of McCain?
McCain/Kerry
McCain/Feingold
McCain/Kennedy
McCain/Gang of 14
McCain/Keating 5
You wrote, “I’m going to go way out on a limb here and say... Tom Selleck”
After all the crud-city stuff we saw on the tv today about the democrats, I don’t think your idea is far out.
With Bush, we have an honorable guy who just cannot talk like a very learned individual. With Sen. McCain, we have an honorable man who whines.
People who are going ape sh** about Obama don’t know what he is saying......they are going for the charisma, exitement part, and also their hope that their votes could make and shape history....and their self esteem will go up tremendously beause they made it happen.
It is my hope that between now and the convention, the good Sen. McCain will remove himself from the ticket. This would open the convention up and we could just possibly get a true conservative who can articulate the Conservative cause......ala Reagan.
Just a pipe dream of mine ?
Mahalo
You forgot McCain/Lieberman.
Well since so many of the Hillary supporters said if she is not the dems nominee they will vote for McCAin..so here we are...McCain/Clinton...yeah it will put us conservatives in a twist but what we gonna do? All we have to select from are two dams and one rino.
Unless she has something on him, and she blackmails him - he will not pick her. Of course, she could have something, but I think she would have leaked it by now. But she's a sociopath, so this could have been the backup plan - if she loses, force him to pick her. Then after about 1 year in office arrange to kill him and take the Presidency. She's that freaking sick.
So unless she's got something, he picks someone else and keeps all his people happy and out there working for him and sending in money.
Looking at it from the perspective of a Democratic strategist (as best I can; admittedly, that is no easy task), a tandem of Hillary Clinton super-glued to the bottom of the Barack Obama ticket sounds like something of a nightmare. Again, that is from a Democratic perspective.
And why is that? After all, Democrat Number One and Democrat Number Two each has certain core constituencies that the other lacks: Obama polls well among African Americans, young idealists, and well-educated elites; whereas Hillary does well among women (especially feminist women), seniors, and the so-called working class. So one might seem a perfect complement to the other. On the surface, anyway.
But there are some serious problems with this analysis.
For one thing, very few people vote for the ticket based upon the person at the bottom of it. True, if the person at the bottom of the ticket seems vastly unqualified or a real lightweight, voters may vote against that ticket, based upon the qustionable judgment of the person at the top of the ticket, who placed him (or her) there. But that is a very different matter.
Secondly, it would appear astoundingly cynical, even by the very lax standards of big-time politics. Yes, JFK could not stand Lyndon Johnson; and Ronald Reagan had no apparent affinity for George H.W. Bush; but Hillary and Obama have been at daggers drawn in a way that these others never were.
Finally, the only way that Obama would ever agree to place Hillary on the ticket were if she were able to force her way aboard. And it would be apparent to a great many people (not just political junkies, either) that Hillary had done just that; which would make Obama look very weak and, therefore, unprepared for the presidency.
So my sincere hope is that John McCain will face a Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton ticket in November. But I really don't think that is likely to happen.
I am thinking Duncan Hunter, but there is no way McCain would pick him and I am not sure Hunter would accept. It doesn’t matter that Hunter can’t deliver California, isn’t black, isn’t female or any of the other superfluous nonsense that everyone thinks is needed.
Obama will get the majority of the female vote and 85-90% of the black vote, regardless. I fail to see why a minority or a female is a good choice, unless, they are just a good choice because they are a good choice. Hunter brings Ohio and the rust belt, perhaps, and counters some of that “free trade at any cost”, globalist tripe the GOP clings to like it is good policy. He would also bring a lot of disaffected conservatives back on board and tap into a heavy majority of Americans that are tired of seeing our sovereignty trampled on so brazenly.
“He may have the right views and a winning personality, but does he have any experience at anything besides acting?”
Oh. please... when does experience matter in politics? Look at the alternative. Do you want to win this or listen to President Obama for 8 years?
Wiki says that Rick Perry is married to Anita Thigpen Perry. Is there something rotten in the State of Texas?
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