Posted on 07/17/2008 7:46:42 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
ONE LOCAL pol whose name has not been mentioned could make the perfect running mate -- for Republican John McCain.
Rep. Eric Cantor is 44. McCain is 71.
As a member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Cantor brings the clout and experience on economic and tax issues that many believe McCain lacks. He was a businessman before being elected to the House in 2000 and has been an eloquent spokesman for pro-growth policies ever since.
Cantor would energize economic conservatives in a way that McCain has not, and he possesses the skill and expertise to attack the Democrats' high tax, anti-trade, big government platform as precisely the wrong medicine for a struggling economy. (His wife, Diana, also plays in the financial major leagues, serving for more than a decade as executive director of the Virginia College Savings Plan. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Media General, which owns this newspaper.)
As the Republican chief deputy whip in the House, Cantor is one of the youngest members of the congressional leadership. And in this year of group firsts, Cantor would be the first Jewish nominee on a national Republican ticket.
His consistent, staunch defense of Israel's interests could strengthen McCain's already respectable standing among traditionally Democratic Jewish voters, many of whom are growing nervous about Obama's pastor's embrace of the anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan. Jimmy Carter's get-together with Hamas terrorists offered another reminder that left-wing Democrats often lend tepid support to Israel.
The congressman from Richmond would keep Virginia and Florida in the GOP column and could help McCain in Northeastern states, such as New Jersey, where the Arizona senator appears to be running better than recent Republican presidential candidates.
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George P. Bush is going to make an excellent Presidential candiate in 2024.
I don’t think you believe he did what he did. I hope not.
what’s bigger than a successful businessman? Were the founding fathers all part of the government? I know most all of them were highly successful businesss people.
Norm, the state voted for Reagan twice. There was a viable party there, it’s not viable anymore. The Democrats didn’t make it that way, the Kennedy’s didn’t. Incompetent RINO liberal Governors did. Slick Willard only delivered the death blow.
As I said, Slick Willard is the best Democrat Governor the state ever had. They’ll not have to worry about Republicans for decades to come after he was done.
George Washington ran the largest distillery outside of Europe for one. The founders were not ignorant, backwoods peasants. They were men of reason, will, intelligence and (usually) wealth as well.
G’night.
Assuming we still have a country by then.
If *omney had been a Founding Father, we’d all be speaking with English accents and flying the Union Jack... that is until the Nazis nuked us off the map.
There is Arlen Spector but he is too sick, too old, and too liberal.
No, not Cantor. Hillary Clinton. McCain is sure to win if he picks Hillary Clinton. After all, isn’t that the only thing that matters? Winning?
Slick Willard *omney makes Specter look like Jesse Helms.
Aw, man. You nailed that one good.
Divided states of America?
Divided states of America?
Yeah, the country should be pretty much completely in the hands of the illegal aliens he advocates for by then.
Isn’t it the truth?
With a McCain/Clinton ticket, I get to watch the “we have to vote for McCain” crowd go into even more illogical contortions.
Plus, with McCain picking Hillary, it helps solidify his base. Democrat voters.
Well, if it’s Juan, it’s Mejico Norte. If it’s Obama, it’s West Zimbabwe.
It’s all about stopping Obama, y’know. Call me crazy, but when you’ve tossed everything out of your house including the kitchen sink, you ain’t got nothing left but the walls.
Yep, an empty house, an empty candidate, a bankrupt party.
In other words, the Massachusetts GOP (after Slick was done with it, and now there ain’t even the walls left, and the foundation is gone, too).
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