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McCain to Meet Possible Running Mates
New York Times ^ | May 21, 2008 | Adam Nagourney

Posted on 05/21/2008 2:22:52 PM PDT by cdchik123

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To: fieldmarshaldj

Brit Hume just said Rob Portman will be there too, along with 2 others I can remember.


361 posted on 05/22/2008 3:25:53 PM PDT by conservativefromGa
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To: cdchik123

Which one did he take, Huey, Duey or Luey?


362 posted on 05/22/2008 5:13:43 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (No matter which one is elected, America may very well never recover from the damage to be done.)
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To: rawhide

Would Lieberman have to swtich parties to run for v.p.? If so, I don’t think he would in liberal CT.


363 posted on 05/22/2008 5:20:59 PM PDT by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: HardStarboard

It’s just an icebreaker, that’s all.


364 posted on 05/22/2008 6:49:26 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: Theodore R.

Lieberman won as an independent, so I do not think he would need to switch parties. He can caucus with whichever party he chooses.


365 posted on 05/22/2008 7:08:06 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: cdchik123

McCain needs to pick somebody who NO Republicans hate. That’s not Romney or Crist. Jindal would be okay I think, but somebody older and more experienced would be better. Mark Sanford would be a really good choice.


366 posted on 05/22/2008 7:53:05 PM PDT by CatherinePPP
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To: Mr. Silverback
Looking past your sarcastic response for a brief moment, realize no one dares answer the tagline. Doing so would be an admission of guilt.

Of course the Democrats' record on civil liberties is atrocious, from slavery through Reconstruction, through Jim Crow, through lynchings and denial of voting rights and equal protection, through Japanese-American concentration camps, and into the modern era with racist race-based quotas and racial divisiveness, race and class warfare, and the ultimate crime against humanity, infanticide.

And McCain offers destroying the First Amendment and loss of national sovereignty and his push for gov't encroaching on our lives via the climate change scam, and also funding of embryonic stem-cell research which deprives human beings of life.

You can vote for driving off the cliff at 40mph, or driving off the cliff at 80mph, or you can vote for an actual conservative which the two major parties are not offering. The choice is yours.

367 posted on 05/22/2008 8:43:38 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (How many of your civil rights & liberties are you willing to sacrifice per election just to vote (R))
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To: CounterCounterCulture

This get-together isn’t about picking a VP.

It has nothing to do with picking a VP.

The media is idiotic for spinning this as a VP event.

Most of the people on this thread are sheep for worshiping the idiotic media.


368 posted on 05/22/2008 8:54:40 PM PDT by JohnnyZ (Romney's religion is the only reason he won half the states he did)
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To: CatherinePPP

Some Freepers mentioned Gov.Sarah Palin of Alaska. She sounds like a winner to me. And if Obama gets elected for the dem ticket, alot of Hillary voters will be pissed and cross over to see a woman get elected.


369 posted on 05/22/2008 9:18:12 PM PDT by make no mistake
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To: cdchik123

Jindal is the best of the three. A man of integrity, 100% prolife, a self-made man. he would be an excellent choice.


370 posted on 05/22/2008 9:33:19 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama: When I am king, you will all eat less and keep your thermostats at 60*.)
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To: cdchik123

I’m hoping for Jindal.

If it’s one of the other two, I’m voting Chuck Baldwin.


371 posted on 05/23/2008 3:11:07 AM PDT by fzx12345 (ZOTTO ERGO SUM)
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To: Jane Austen
"...Though maybe this meeting isn't about VP. No matter whom he picks, people do not vote for VP...",

I think Cheney helped Bush with the "Intransigent Conservatives". McCain will pick someone who most people haven't heard of.

372 posted on 05/23/2008 3:24:45 AM PDT by Does so (...against all enemies, DOMESTIC and foreign...)
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To: conservativefromGa

That’s not all, according to Time:

“Two other senators, Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman and South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham are also expected to show.”

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1808816,00.html

Notice the campaign didn’t make a big deal announcing the Democrat and the Graham Cracker are part of it. I read somewhere that Tom Ridge supposedly will attend as well. Has all the makings of a reality TV show.


373 posted on 05/23/2008 3:47:04 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Clintonfatigued

It would be huge middle finger to the poor state of LA to leave them with Mitch Landrieu.


374 posted on 05/23/2008 3:53:22 AM PDT by Impy (Obama, you are stupid and your wife smells.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; All
“It’s been a nightmare with the worst imaginable candidates running for the highest office in the land, and instead of them just being Democrats, they were “Republicans”, too. ‘”
>>>>>>>>......
I could care less who is VP, what I want is a conservative President (the role of VP is one of the best feather bed
jobs in Gov no work all pay and benefits)..
unless we assume McCain dies in office the ability of a VP to influence McCain is nil. And those who pin voting for McCain on his VP pick truly seem less than the brightest bulb in the lamp...
375 posted on 05/23/2008 5:33:25 AM PDT by shadowgovernment (From the Ashes of a Republican rout will raise a Conservative Party)
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To: make no mistake

She would also be a good choice, but I thought I heard that since she just had a baby she didn’t want to deal with a national campaign right now. It’s an awful lot of travel to do with a young infant, I wouldn’t want to do it. But if she can figure out how to make it work she would make a good VP for the same reason as Sanford or Jindal, she isn’t hated by many Republicans.


376 posted on 05/23/2008 6:00:06 AM PDT by CatherinePPP
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To: rawhide

Lieberman will be Secretary of State


377 posted on 05/23/2008 1:01:56 PM PDT by drzz
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To: Mr. Silverback
One of many reasons is that crimes against Americans get swept under the carpet such as the death of Daniel Smith. The first ME who found things did not add up with his death was removed from office. Then the coverup.
378 posted on 05/23/2008 1:21:00 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Bahamas!)
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To: Owen
Michigan EVs can be brought into play by Romney.

I think that you are greatly overestimating Romney's popularity in Michigan. Despite it being his "home state", Romney only carried 38.9% of the vote in the Republican primary. That is a pretty unimpressive total but even more so when you consider how much money Romney spent in the state and the Democrat cross-over vote. Remember the Democrats had their own "Operation Chaos" going in Michigan since they knew their votes weren't going to count in the Democrat primary. Several liberal groups were calling for Democrats to vote for Romney in order to lengthen the Republican primary.

I think that Mitt Romney is as likely to deliver Michigan's EVs as he is Massachusetts' EVs.

I doubt Romney gets the nod for VP due to the FLDS issue. Mitt Romney would be spending all his time explaining that the FLDS isn't mainstream LDS. The Democrats and their willing accomplices in the MSM will do everything they can to obscure the distinction between the two Mormon groups.

379 posted on 05/23/2008 1:49:47 PM PDT by CommerceComet
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