Posted on 03/03/2008 9:33:03 AM PST by jdm
Says Novak, who also claims to have heard from Romney’s people that McCain promised Charlie Crist the VP nod in return for his endorsement in Florida:
A footnote: Karl Rove and other prominent Republicans are talking up a McCain-Romney harmony ticket despite personal dislike between the two presidential candidates. Romney also would have to overcome opposition to him going on the ticket by his closest advisers.
We’ve been down this road before vis-a-vis Coulter but since we’ve got some new readers via Captain Ed, let’s run through it again. Romney might bite at the offer since it’s the best leg up he could have on Huckabee, Jindal, Sanford, Pawlenty or whoever else is coming down the pike in 2012/2016, but what does he do for McCain? There’s no shortage of southern evangelical (read: *wince* non-Mormon) social cons around to help him shore up the base, none of whom come with the baggage of nasty exchanges with McCain at the debates and in ads. The only potential advantage he brings is money, which is no small thing when the GOP is taking a hellacious beating on fundraising, but Mitt’s not going to bankrupt himself to make Maverick president and his campaign fundraising wasn’t so prolific as to put him anywhere near the class of Hillary or Obama. He’s not going to deliver any northeastern states to McCain either. So what’s the angle here? Appeasing talk radio by putting a guy on the ticket whom none of them were especially passionate about until he became the only alternative to McCain?
Here’s a better question. Strictly from an electoral standpoint (i.e. not in terms of your own policy preferences), why is Romney a better pick than Huckabee? Silver tongue, tireless campaigner, social con cred, and just enough (shudder) economic populism to maybe steal a few undecideds from the Democrats in the center. I’m not asking if he’s the ideal pick, mind you, just why he’d earn fewer voters than Romney would on the ticket.
Rove, you magnificent RINO!
Love it!
Brains.
That would get McLame my vote.
Wow. I guess if McCain wants to commit political hari kiri he could select Romney....
A McCain-Romney ticket would be a huge mistake. As would a McCain-Crist or any McCain-Fellow RINO ticket. It needs to be a McCain-Watts, McCain-Palin, McCain-Blackburn or any McCain-Real Conservative ticket. You cannot win an election without REAL support from your base and putting a second RINO on the ticket is not going to secure the base. It’s going to keep it home.
He looks and acts like a sane American.
I think he needs to add a strong conservative to his ticket.
Fred Thompson would be far better then Romney.
This scenario unfolds stranger by the minute....
bump
In my opinion that would not be wise. Too many flip-flops by Romney.
This would be awesome. Mitt Romney has not been shy at taking shots at the Clintons and all they represent. He can hold his own on the campaign trail and allow McLame to take the “high road”. Part of Mitt’s problem has been name recognition. After four years as VP, McLame can retire as a one term president as has been rumored.
Dumb idea.
When he was working for Bush, Rove “reached out” to Evangelicals and conservative Catholics, but he never really understood them, and in the end he lost them.
Romney was generally viewed as a “lesser evil” by conservatives who held their noses and voted for him in primaries rather than vote for the other losers on the ticket. But he still couldn’t cut it.
So, now Rove wants a ticket consisting of Mr. Greater Evil and Mr. Lesser Evil? I think not.
If the choice is Crist, McCain is done! It will smell of inside politics (as usual) and turnoff pragmatic Conservatives.
Because the Huckster's support is concentrated in states that would go red if the GOP nominated an eggplant (and is thus null and void as far as the Electoral College outcome is concerned).
But I don't think you want two legislators on the ticket. You need a governor or at least someone with executive experience.
Mark Sanford would be my personal favorite, but I don't think he would agree for the same reason as Romney is unlikely to agree.
I would be happier with the reverse, but I’d definitely support a McLame/Romney ticket.
Personally, it really comes down to my total revulsion for either of the dems being the only thing that’ll get me out of the house on election day.
i could care less what that NeoCon asshat thinks
part of the problem, not the solution
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