If he’s the nominee, I expect to reluctantly support him.
He would go a long way towards assuring conservatives if he were to choose a running mate who is acceptable to them.
herein lies the key IMO
My wife still thinks whoever wins will be a one-term President. The real race is 2012.
My wife still thinks whoever wins will be a one-term President. The real race is 2012.
I keep hearing this and it makes no sense. Name a VP other than Dick Cheney who really had any influence in the administration. You pick a VP to help win key states and then you put him in a back office and pull him out for window dressing when convenient. Don't tell me McCain will be influenced or listen to a VP. He doesn't listen to anyone other than those strange voices in his head.
“He would go a long way towards assuring conservatives if he were to choose a running mate who is acceptable to them.”
how????, why???
he’ll change his stripes/positions to match that vp????
delusion
you can either support him, for any good/bad/indifferent reason you want, but i cannot understand, if you don’t support him now, just what difference - in terms of what he will or will not do in office - that ANY vp will be the determining factor for
his admin will be HIS, his policies/positions will be HIS and no VP is going to make a dimes worth of difference in what he thinks or does - a maverick control freak does not create a team to bring an idea to him and then shoot it down or accept it because of what his figurehead vp thinks
he is not like GWB, thinking he needs a wise VP to help him decide which cabinet/policy official to take sides with; in fact he does not seek outside council from anyone but his own personal staff - which he already has
if he chooses YOUR vp choice he will do so to snooker you, to get your vote, not to reflect any new nuance in his thinking
if he were a conservative, I would feel better. everyone knows that the VP is largely ignored. McCain would go back to his old habit of selling out conservatives!