Posted on 05/21/2008 2:22:52 PM PDT by cdchik123
Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, on Friday is scheduled to meet with two Republican governors who have been prominently mentioned as potential running mates, according to Republicans familiar with Mr. McCain’s plan.
Charlie Crist, the governor of Florida, and Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, have both accepted invitations to meet with Mr. McCain at his home in Arizona, according to Republican familiars with the decision. One Republican said that Mitt Romney, a former rival of Mr. McCain for the presidential nomination — is also expected to visit him this weekend. Mr. Romney’s advisers declined to comment.
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Brit Hume just said Rob Portman will be there too, along with 2 others I can remember.
Which one did he take, Huey, Duey or Luey?
Would Lieberman have to swtich parties to run for v.p.? If so, I don’t think he would in liberal CT.
It’s just an icebreaker, that’s all.
Lieberman won as an independent, so I do not think he would need to switch parties. He can caucus with whichever party he chooses.
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.
[Silverback nods soberly] Yes, and the sad thing is that so many vote GOP and never think of the Democrat's outstanding record on civil liberties.
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.
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.
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.
Jindal is the best of the three. A man of integrity, 100% prolife, a self-made man. he would be an excellent choice.
I’m hoping for Jindal.
If it’s one of the other two, I’m voting Chuck Baldwin.
I think Cheney helped Bush with the "Intransigent Conservatives". McCain will pick someone who most people haven't heard of.
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.
It would be huge middle finger to the poor state of LA to leave them with Mitch Landrieu.
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.
Lieberman will be Secretary of State
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.
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