And make Christopher Reeve walk again ala John Edwards.
Do you think the guy lies a lot and makes up his smears as he goes with no sense of consistency, only a conscienceless willingness to lie to advance his man Romney? In this post a vice presidential choice is meaningless.
"Whatever combination of votes that gives McCain the biggest coalition is alright in my book. McCain will have a center-right coalition.
McCain understands the first rule of VP picks, everyone does. Do no harm. He knows that Lieberman at best would attract the same kind of voters that he himself already attracts, and it would be at the price of a significant chunk of his coalition.
I’ll break down the dynamics of the VP selection: most people don’t know who the Vice President is, nor do they care.
The VP pick gets only two big nights: the acceptance speech at the convention, and the VP debate, which gets a very small audience compared to presidential debates. Other than that, the VP is invisible, and most people don’t start paying attention until after the convention where the VP is nominated.
The people who actually care who is picked or could pick the guy out of a lineup are hardcore political junkies, who just like football fan, already have picked their team. They’re not persuadable.
This is why a VP pick can not help and can only harm. The only people who care or follow the VP drama are people that are already onboard, and thus can only be lost by a bad pick.
Obama didn’t understand this. The only people who care about his VP choice are die-hard Hillary supporters, and he lost a good chunk of them by not picking her.
No one else cares who he picked. After all, he should know, he’s Barack Obama! Why would they care about the other guy on the ticket? It’s all about him, not the other guy. Obama fans have a hard enough time keeping up with the Kardashians, let alone Paris, Britney, Ashton, Brad and Angelina, this season’s American Idol, the Lohans, the Simpson sisters, and not one Corey, but two. They certainly don’t have time for some uncool windbag with bad plugs like Joe Biden.
45 posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:52:47 AM by counterpunch (John McCain - For the LOVE of Country)