Posted on 08/04/2008 1:14:15 AM PDT by MartinaMisc
When you try to talk with McCain staffers about vice-presidential prospects, as I did last week, the normally garrulous become guarded and the usually talkative turn taciturn. Still, here’s what I was able to discern.
John McCain apparently intends to announce his pick after the Democratic convention. There’s been thought given to announcing McCain’s selection the day after Barack Obama’s Thursday night Aug. 28 acceptance speech, to try to minimize Obama’s postconvention bounce.
But the current inclination is to wait until after Labor Day weekend, which ends with President Bush’s speech Monday, the first night of the G.O.P. convention. Then the McCain camp would hope to seize attention Tuesday with the V.P. announcement. A strong pick, followed by the V.P. nominee’s remarks Wednesday and then McCain’s speech Thursday, could provide a good launch into the last 60 days of the campaign.
So, who would be a strong pick? Some V.P. candidates fit one theory of the campaign, others another. And there seem to be at least four competing theories in the McCain camp, which, while not entirely mutually exclusive, point in different vice-presidential directions.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
We badly need a rejuvenation and someone far to the right of McCain. Pawlenty and Cantor would bring into play key swing states, unlike Palin. She is overall good, but Alaska is safely GOP. Cantor could tip the balance in Virginia and Florida. Pawlenty brings in Minnesota at least.
How to pick a VP?
Do not pick a no name.
Bob Gates is mentioned in the article.
Interesting. Hadn’t heard that before. Thoughts anyone?
Gates? What would he bring? His only credencial is Foreign Policy/Defense, to be precise the surge... McCain has this already as his strength. It’s not an issue for me, but another old White Southern man whose strengths are the same as McCains would be seen by many as a rather lame choice.
Minnesota? Please.
How about Michigan?
Mitt Romney is the best choice for VP.
He is an economic genius and well known.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052286/posts
Couldn't Pawlenty tip the balance?
1. We’re going to defeat Obama straight up.Broadly acceptable to Republicans, young but not too young — Mitt Romney.
2. We need to accentuate Obama’s key vulnerability — inexperience.As Bill Kristol suggests — Mitt Romney. He's a business leader with a proven track record.
3. Don’t fight the public desire for change; co-opt it.Mitt Romney — he ran as a Washington D.C. outsider. He already has a well crafted message of bringing fresh ideas to a broken political system.
4. The public is really sick of politics as usual in Washington.Mitt Romney — he's a business leader with a proven track record. He already has a well crafted message of bringing fresh ideas to a broken political system.
Economic genius ? If you consider foisting a state-bankrupting big government Socialist medicine scheme “genius.” Let’s keep the liberals off the ticket.
Syphilis has really ravaged Clinton.
Romney uses Grecian 5.
It’s going to be Tom Ridge. That is why he is waiting until the last moment.
He is being mentioned more and more recently. And wss on the talk show circuit yesterday.
Lindsay Graham also did a great job yesterday.
Ridge? Never.
Romney is a better choice than Palin.
How to pick a VP? 1.) DON’T do whatever is approved by the New York Times!
On what planet ?
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