Who do you think will be McCain's VP?

[thatguyoverthere]

Welcome to the forum, misterdix! Good post.

I still think McCain is going to win the general election, but only if he picks a pro-life VP. IMO, picking Lieberman would be the kiss of death for McCain's chances. Much of the base would crumble. Many Republicans are already holding their noses for McCain, but I think abortion is where many of them absolutely draw the line.

Romney's Mormonism hurts him a little with the far right Christian crowd, but not as much as a pro-choice position would. Romney brings a lot of money and soild economic experience. Can McCain hold his nose and pick Romney? That's the big question. Can Republicans get excited over Romney or Pawlenty in the same way that the Democrats got excited over Biden? I dunno.

The most important thing we must all remember: You can pick your Vice President, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your vice president's nose.

[northhunter]

I always cringe a bit when John Stewart is quoted as a serious source for insightfull political comment. He's a comedian for crying out loud, nothing more than a quick comical clip or two for those without the attention span to give serious thought to an issue.

[Stylerod]

DENVER - Two of the leading candidates to be John McCain's vice presidential pick — Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — appear to be out of the running, NBC News reported Friday.

Pawlenty has been told he won't be chosen by McCain, according to NBC's David Gregory. And Romney won't be at today's Dayton, Ohio, rally with McCain, NBC's Chuck Todd reported. Romney spent Thursday courting donors in California.

Well hell. If it's Lieberman I'm just not voting this year.....

[kinggovernor]

OMG McCain is pwning the 24 news media, leaking info to them and then retracting it an hour later. He has them going batshit insane

They are trying to locate the physical location of all the possible people

guess what they are not talking about this morning nearly as much? Obama's speech

[kinggovernor]

Originally Posted by Stylerod

All signs are pointing this way. Thoughts?

all the signs are mixed

[Stylerod]

Originally Posted by kinggovernor

OMG McCain is pwning the 24 news media, leaking info to them and then retracting it an hour later. He has them going batshit insane

They are trying to locate the physical location of all the possible people

guess what they are not talking about this morning nearly as much? Obama's speech

MSNBC people are pissed. They said they are going to stop reporting on rumors because McCains people are "playing" with them!

The press is so easy!

[kinggovernor]

Originally Posted by Stylerod

MSNBC people are pissed. They said they are going to stop reporting on rumors because McCains people are "playing" with them!

The press is so easy!

I am watching they are pissed that they can't talk about Obama

[kinggovernor]

Originally Posted by Stylerod

Palin

A moose hunting, gun toting former athlete and beauty contestant with a 4 month old baby with Downs. Now that is not your typical VP candidate!


Oh, and she's hot!

she has an approval rating in the 80s

and she has gotten rid of corrupt Republicans

[motivez]

Originally Posted by wanna be drummer

As weird as it sounds, I'd like him to choose Sarah Palin, but I doubt thats going to happen

And the winner is...

Good choice, probably the second best choice he could have made. In fact I was discussing this option with a good friend of mine (BradF) just a couple weeks ago. He called, I basically said he wont choose her because she lacks name recognition everyone will be going "who?" for the next week.


But I think it was a good choice she's going to be criticized for lacking experience and already is by the dems and obama camp which is completely insane irony IMO. She's not the front runner, their front runner has LESS experience then she does in the real world, at executive experience. I really think the whole "experience" issue is getting a bit overplayed, and now its being over played on both sides. Obama lacks experience, true, but his VP has it in spades. On the rep ticket its the opposite, what I really like most about Palin is she's taken on corrupt REPUBLICANS and won, which to me is important. We need to right this nation and if the party is corrupt beyond belief we wont fix the nation.