Posted on 07/01/2008 4:56:30 PM PDT by Plutarch
Sen. John McCain will choose businessman and former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney as Vice President, in his bid for the White House this November, a source closely connected with the McCain campaign, who asked to remain anonymous, told us earlier this afternoon.
Though others were close in the running, the choice ultimately came down to the moneynot the man. According to our source, the campaign narrowed their Vice Presidential options to Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, the two most successful opponents of McCain in the bid for the Republican nomination. But despite Huckabees sway with far Right conservatives and evangelical voters, Romney packs the deepest fund-raising pockets.
As a successful businessman and prominent member of the staggeringly wealthy Mormon community, Romney brings with him the potential to raise upwards of $60 million in 30 to 60 days, whereas Huckabee could only raise $10 to $15 million, says our source.
McCain needs those types of numbers to be competitive with the money-sponge that is the Obama campaign, which has 1.7 million individual donorsas well as the Hollywood machineand is ringing-out advertising dollars across the country, saturating voters in his 50 State Strategy to win the White House.
How the hell did the publisher of the Top 20 Side-Boobs of All Time get this scoop, you must be asking yourself, right now. (We were asking ourselves the same question.) And heres the answer: Its all part of the McCain campaigns plan to directly target college-age voters, in an attempt to sway them away from Sen. Obama, says our source.
Additionally, the campaign wants to solidify their ticket far in advance of the Obama campaign making their VP choice, in order to get a head start on the surge in fund-raising they expect to receive with the announcement of Romney as the Republican VP pick.
So next time two dudes in suits knock on your door, they might want more than to proselytize about the Book of Mormon
UPDATE: We understand better than anyone how crazy it seems that we got this story first, so a healthy level of skepticism is expected. But we stand by the accuracy of our reporting on this, and will give you as many new details as possible in the coming daysincluding the name of our source, if we can.
Didn't you mean to post that to me ? Because it fits since I have given money to Duncan , then Fred ,then Mitt , then McCain , and now I am told I should have been supporting the beast all along .
Romney actually can bring in votes, too. There are decent-sized Mormon populations in some western states that are have been becoming less red and that Obama thinks he can take in lieu of Ohio and Florida. A similar effect with Lieberman and the Jewish vote helped make Florida closer than one would otherwise have expected in 2000.
Romney also has family history and a good vibe in Michigan — he won the primary there — and the credibility to make the argument that the Dems are to blame for the auto industry decline. Winning Michigan would be pretty big for the GOP.
I hope he does choose Romney. I like Romney.
But I don’t believe this either.
I’m just so afraid McCain will make a dumb choice that will alienate even his most reluctant voters.
No he's not. That's He has been on every side of the life issue. Have every read or listened to any of his comments. You might want to listen to his actual word instead of falling for the smoke and mirrors.
I take it you also haven't taken the time to see that he was strongly pro gay while governor. He even put his name on pro gay flayers.
Do your research before you spout off...
McCain should name Mitt Romney as VP tomorrow and send him out on the road to savage Obama all summer long
I don't care about any Republican convention for Romney to be named VP
By then it will be too late
Get Mitt out there now. He has the youthful looks and enormous resume to challenge rookie Obama at every turn. Mitt will slice and dice that POS
Co-ed Magazine gets the, er, scoop on V.P. picks. Fake! Fake! Fake!
Co-ed Magazine has this scoop? I call b.s.
Much stronger than Huckabee, I totally agree.
Woo hoo! Mass-Care for all America!
Vote for McCain, he’ll give us socialized medicine, carbon taxes, unchecked illegal immigration, abortion...
And if you don’t vote for McCain, we’ll get Obama... who’ll give us socialized medicine, carbon taxes, unchecked illegal immigration, abortion...
Wow. I’ve forgotten... who’s the conservative candidate in this?
Oh, and you *MUST* vote for one of the two, ‘cause everybody just *KNOWS* that a vote for someone else is just a waste. Uh-huh, dem Republicrats tells me so.
Heaven forbid anyone actually use their brains to think about this...
I can deal with it.
Good analysis.
This is why many people like an airline captain with a little silver around the temples...
IMO, Huckabee is responsible for giving us McCain instead of Romney. I'm sure as hell not in favor of rewarding the Huckster by offering him the Veep.
The Huckster is not qualified to lead this country.
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Give him Vernanke’s job.
“Romney brings with him the potential to raise upwards of $60 million in 30 to 60 days...”
Much earlier on, I said that he’d choose Romney because Romney could cut a check. But now that McCain has elected to use public financing, I don’t think this article makes any sense.
It happens, the GOP loses. It’s. Just. That. Simple.
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