Posted on 06/15/2008 1:15:33 PM PDT by Libloather
BIDEN RISING IN VEEPSTAKES
June 14, 2008 -- BEFORE multimillionaire Democratic power broker James A. Johnson quit as Sen. Barack Obama's chief vice presidential screener, the name that came to the fore in his internal discussions was 65-year-old, six-term Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware.
Biden, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, made a good impression in his losing bid for the presidential nomination this year. The downside on him is that he talks too much. But he provides expertise and experience in national security that Obama lacks and, as a Catholic, adds cultural diversity to the ticket.
A footnote: Presidential supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton who are possibilities for vice president include Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell. The leading Clintonite for vice president, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, has definitively ruled himself out.
SOURCES close to Sen. John McCain say the Republican presidential candidate likes the idea of Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman, re-elected from Connecticut as an independent in 2006, or former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge for vice president - if he could get away with it. The political consensus is that McCain couldn't get away with either, and he knows it.
Lieberman, one of McCain's closest Senate friends, vigorously supports him for president and sometimes joins him on the campaign trail. However, Lieberman opposes Republican policy on nearly everything except Iraq, where he has backed the war effort.
Ridge, who served as President Bush's secretary of homeland security, is a generally conservative Republican except for being pro-choice on abortion. He was considered for vice president in 1996 and 2000, but was ruled out both times because of the abortion issue.
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I can’t stand Biden. But Lieberman is the Democrat version of McCain. We can set our thermostats at 85 and pay carbon credits for breathing.
Biden and Nobama 08 can plagerize each others speeches.
No doubt Obama would like a plagiarist like himself.
Lieberman is just as bad as bloomberg
I never thought I would live long enough to see this kind of shit.
What the only thing worse the 2 Senators running for President?
4 Senators running.
Will this insane year never end?
God save the Republic!
if he could get away with it. The political consensus is that McCain couldn't get away with either, and he knows it
Well, one thing is for sure, both parties are pathetic in their choices of nominees. I wouldn’t rule out Mickey Mouse or Pee Wee Herman on either ticket. The Great OZ has spoken.
When Biden was in the race, he made the point that he was more electable than Hillary or Barry. I believed that, but he did not have enough star power for the Democrat primary crowd. Barry could do worse than Biden. Biden could help him with Hillary voters, Edwards cannot help him much with those voters.
Who is McCain going to pick? Throw some out there. I’ve been trying and I see Romney.
Karl Rove listed Biden as the leader in the four he thought were the leading potential nominees.
Rove gave Romney the lead on the McCain side.
I have always thought that, whoever we’ll be voting for, it will be a democrat. It will either be a McCain democrat or an Obama democrat. Who in hell are we kidding?
Get rid of the word big and you’ve nailed it.
McCain is not going to pick Lieberman. He’s just trying to ride Lieberman’s coattails. It’s much like the fact that he’s permitted rumors that he might consider Romney. Why piss off their supporters? Let them think their man is in the running. It’s good politics.
Another Blood Sucking Demoncrap to tax us to death!
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