Posted on 02/17/2008 9:00:09 PM PST by CreativePerspective
As Washington begins one of its favourite guessing games, the Arizona senator has refused to divulge any names. But aides have admitted that Tom Pawlenty's will be near the top of the shortlist.
Aged 47, the Minnesota governor will provide a youthful contrast to the 71-year-old war veteran, and is only a year older than Barack Obama, the Illinois senator who is the narrow Democrat favourite.
Other names in the mix include South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Florida Governor Charlie Crist, whose support for Mr McCain helped secure early primary victories in their respective states.
With the Democrats set to field the first female or black White House nominee, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has emerged as a possibility, along with Bobby Jindal, who last year became the first Asian American to win a governorship, in Louisiana.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
You may believe so. The fact that many conservative leaders today are fighting each other says otherwise.
Yes.. and a real looker besides..
The Telegraph is British, therefore they give us British usage.
Rick Perry is so unpopular in Texas that he would hurt the GOP’s chances in the Lone Star State.
Garner as in Garner State Park down there by Uvalde?
Down on the Nueces river?
McCain is going with Juan Hernandez.
Questions for all:
1) Would Sanford make it more likely that youd vote for McCain in the fall?
2) How excited would you get about Sanford?
3) Has Sanford been a good conservative governor in SC?
Until #3 is answered I cannot answer 1 or 2.
Yep. He was from Uvalde and is buried there.
If such is the case, it's likely due to bad advice from the counsellors surrounding her (which I agree - she is still ultimately responsible for)...
“You may believe so. The fact that many conservative leaders today are fighting each other says otherwise”
Please, explain. Your statement makes no sense.
“Could J.C. Watts be a possibility?”
That’s what I was thinking...
The Schweiker pick did wrest a few delegates away from Ford — obviously not enough though. Now if Ford had picked Schweiker instead of Dole he might have had a chance...
Also Ford had informally promised the VP to a number of others so if he had been forced to name the choice before the Presidential ballot, then who knows what would have happened.
“Rick Perry is so unpopular in Texas that he would hurt the GOPs chances in the Lone Star State/”
You are making my day! I was hoping to hear that! What has he done to make Texans so riled up?
“Please not Crist.”
That would be about the worst choice, if McCain gets the nomination.
‘McCain is going with Juan Hernandez.”
In McCain’s dreams...
Schweiker was regarded as a liberal, he wouldn’t have helped Ford at all (in fact, Dole was picked by Ford in an attempt to appease Conservatives after the disastrous choice of having the epitome of the liberal establishment Nelson Rockefeller as VP). In fact, Reagan’s having picked Schweiker hurt him with Conservatives.
Indian = India
“If such is the case, it’s likely due to bad advice from the counsellors surrounding her (which I agree - she is still ultimately responsible for)...”
Yeah, such is the case...another Republican selling out to business while the American taxpayer subsidizes healthcare, welfare, etc...Illegal aliens will be lining up for their Matricular Cards, hoping to vote illegally in the next elections...we’re getting one in Idaho, too.
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