Too many ‘announcement coming very soon’. Let’s see: Huckabee, Crist, Graham, Lieberman, Powell, and now Pawlenty...
I’d go with Joe Lieberman over this guy...
Yeah, because THAT'S the aspect he needs to reinforce. *sigh*
I thought McCain said he is a conservative?!? Why does he need a VP that conservatives would like, when he brags about his own conservative bona fides? He's a Reagan foot soldier!!
Sorry McCain, but conservatives don't like you, and Pawlenty isn't gonna change that..... As long as you keep bashing Barack Obama, the conservative hoards will vote against Obama. That's the best you're gonna get McCain!!
McCain is well on his way to making Bob Dole look like a dynamic campaigner!
I had heard of him but don’t really know anything about him and never expected him to be the choice. Don’t know if I missed this but does anyone know, is he pro life? And where does he stand on the 2nd amendment and on terrorism?
Actually I’ve been trying to look it up but haven’t been able to find it.
I think it’ll be Romney. Lots of drawbacks but he knows how to run, and he takes little crap from the media.
The conventional wisdom is wrong. I’ve been saying it all along...Obama cannot win this election unless McCain REALLY screws up. McCain’s pick should be a safe, conventional one.
Well.
I’m praying, hoping, and working for the best. I must say though - and I know some of you hate the comparison - but if the Pawlenty rumors prove true, this is looking more and more like Dole/Kemp redux.
I cannot understand why the GOP never gets it with the Veep choice. If you’re expecting a close election, or trailing behind, you need to drop an atom bomb of a pick, not “Hey, I’m choosing person X, from non-swing state X, who brings no new voters or states to the ticket, but is very loyal to me personally...”
Now is the time for Jindal or Palin. I’m sorry - I would have my first real beef about a McCain blunder if it does turn out to be Pawlenty. Imagine two white guys again while Obama picks a woman. Where exactly are our new voters going to come from? How exactly does Pawlenty energize a base that desperately needs energizing?
Heck, Rush Limbaugh has all but said he’d go to bat for McCain with Jindal as the Veep. Palin brings some Hillary voters to the table. Pawlenty just shows more Bushitis to the public: two white guys, picked because he’s part of the nominee’s “friends and family” program, no close state brought to the table at a time when swinging 100 votes might change the Presidency.
Oh, and before anyone tries it - Mondale’s only State is NOT voting GOP - Sorry.
I’m sorry, I’ve been saying not to count McCain out for some time, and I mean it. But giving Obama the keys to the White House by blowing the Veep pick is not wise. The day McCain picks another unknown white guy to be Veep just because he’s loyal - you can pretty much bet your first born Obama picks a woman for his Veep. And she’ll actually get the chance to be Veep, because the election will be over that very day.
Everyone says that Veep doesn’t matter - but it does. It mattered with Bush I, it mattered with Clinton, and it mattered when Gore made history by picking Lieberman, giving his campaign a HUUUUUUGE boost.
I DO NOT WANT TO RELIVE DOLE/KEMP!!! So why does everyone who ran the Dole ship have the keys to this campaign? Why is the same strategy in place? I don’t get it.
That’s my vent for now.
Pawlenty isn’t bad, but I greatly prefer Sanford, Jindal, Sen. John Thune, Gov. Palin, and Rob Portman.
Today I heard Sean Hannity say that Senator McCain was going to see his FRIEND, Charlie Crist.
I hope he doesn’t pick Gov. Crist for VP.
Pawlenty?!?
Well, that has all the excitement of a mashed potato sandwich.
Hmmm, let me see if I got this right; a “center-right” Republican from a blue state. That makes sense
Who?
Yuck! A global warming moron.
Yuck! A global warming moron.
Yuck! A global warming moron.
Hmmm could Rush with his “high connections” found out about this?
Rush was very upset when talking about the elections today.
Rush goes “we’re screwed”
Another white male ain’t gonna do it for him.
If I had a dime for every person who claimed to have the “insider knowledge” of whom McCain was gonna pick...