Veep Peek: Guide To VP Selection

Sky News ^ | July 14, 2008 | Jon-Christopher Bua

[dynachrome]

*omney care is working fine!

~ Baghdad bob.

[counterpunch]

Stop stealing my shtick I used for *uckabee.
Thanks.

[fieldmarshaldj]

How’d ya like them $50 abortions ?

[fieldmarshaldj]

It’s Huckster, *omney’s liberal Southern GOP-killin’ twin.

[counterpunch]

Lieberman won’t be running for VP again.
Just like Edwards won’t either.
One shot is all you get in modern politics.

The days of Cleveland, Stevenson, and Nixon are gone.

[null and void]

I wouldn’t count Hilary!™ out...

[counterpunch]

That doesn’t change the fact that you lifted my * and misapplied it in a terribly misguided way.
So stop pulling a Biden.

[counterpunch]

Rush didn’t help Fred because the all-knowing Maha Rushie understood something that many of us here couldn’t: that Thompson was a non-starter and a sure-loser that couldn’t generate the excitement needed for a successful campaign.

He saw it in Romney though.

Fred let us all down once already.
Isn’t once enough? The stakes are much higher in November than they were in January.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, I could call *omney something else, but it wouldn’t be appropriate for a family website. :-)

[sefarkas]

Fred ...

Your brand of kool-aid must have an extremely long biological half-life. Former Senator Thompson adds nothing to the GOP ticket in November 2008 -- check is primary results in early 2008. This goes for the rest of the POTUS-GOP also-rans. The list presented is bereft of good choices. Christ is the most logical; takes Florida out-of-play and puts it in the GOP column.

[counterpunch]

Consider the premise of my post you were responding to: you only get one shot at winning. A loss spells the end of your political career. Hillary doesn’t want to waste her one shot on the bottom of a losing ticket with Obama. Nor does she want to be Obama’s VP because that would rule out a run until 2016, when she’d be 68 and either a sitting or defeated VP, neither of which have very good prospects for victory. Does she really want to run as Mondale or Al Gore?

She will wait out 2008 and try to make a comeback in 2012 after Obama loses.

[counterpunch]

What, a Mor*on?
Is that what this is about?

[DuncanWaring]

Makes sense.

Except that McKinley was a Republican too.

[fieldmarshaldj]

He knew and I know no such thing. Fred was the real deal. A statesman and a giant and an actual Conservative who stood in sharp contrast to the slick fraud from Ratsachusetts who was a genuine liberal and a cheap, Stepford wife politician who had to bribe the weak-willed into supporting him. Democrats nominate con-men, so let *omney run as Obama's VP. After all, he was the best Democrat Governor his state ever had. He did deliver the death blow to the Republican party and implemented his Socialist vision.

[SMCC1]

I liked Matt Blunt...but he’s apparently retiring from politics.

Eric Cantor. He’s a congressman though and it seems McCain will probably go for a Governor.

It’ll most likely be Pawlenty

[Ratblaster]

Lincoln wasn't a “real” (i.e. mean spirited) Republican.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Nice try. I don’t give a crap about his religion. The issue is that the man remains a lying liberal phony.

[Maelstorm]

I thought that Fred might not even be considered but the longer this thing runs the more he appears to be a solid choice. He was always a solid choice for me. Fred would be a safe choice and he would be good for the role of McCain defender. I’m not sure if any of the others could really pull it off and some would be horrible choices if McCain wants to make nice with conservatives.

[counterpunch]

And you remain completely without any basis in fact.

[Maelstorm]

Both good choices. McCain Thompson sounds good and so does McCain Palin. McCain should get the VP choice over and done with.