Since the Beltway pundit class has already anointed minor crook Marco Rubio as the Republicans’ vice-presidential candidate, I guess we can play the guessing game, too. If Perry wins the nomination, who will he pick? How about Romney? Anybody else?
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Governor McDonnell of Virginia I think is going to be high on any of their lists. He’s one of the few Republican governors who is popular, and the Republicans must win Virginia.
If the 2008 electoral votes are the same (are they? I don’t know):
Obama wins Nevada, Colorado, New Hampshire, Michigan, Iowa. Obama loses Ohio, Florida, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.
In that scenario, Obama wins Virginia, he wins 270 exactly.
Oh, yep…the electoral map changed slightly. Never mind about those calculations.
Either way, I still think McDonnell will be very high up on a short list. It will help them in the Senate, too.
Why would Romney want to be VP? If Perry wins, he’ll only be a one-termer .. and if Perry wins .. and somehow is a two-term President .. that means a longer wait .. and basically a 3rd campaign .. which means he’ll be really stale bread at that point .. so I don’t see Mittens as Veep. And Rubio? Aren’t the projecting re: their criticisms of the President when he announced, and through the campaign?
Any speculation that Biden might step down (or become Sec of State) to allow some younger Dem candidate get established for a run in 2016?
Good question. Joe hasn’t exactly been very visible unlike Cheney and Al Gore.
Senator Anchor Baby Rubio?
oh yeah, sure.
Agreed, though there was a phenomenon in Stalin’s USSR where, if one was considered an oppositionist within the Party, one would very publicly admit one’s culpability before the Party and prove one’s bona fides by naming names of those who led you astray. One would keep one’s nice apartment in town and retain various other privileges vis-a-vis the general population. Of course, one would always be a “former oppositionist.” Like Lady Macbeth, that wouldn’t wash off no matter how vigorously one publicly scrubbed oneself. Many former oppositionists who thought they were in the clear previously were shot between 1936-1939. Without the shooting, this is how it works for someone with a vowel at the end of his name in the GOP.
If Perry wins the GOP goes all out tea bagger. The VP is Sessions or Demint.
I would say Bachmann, but I think the GOP has decided they’ve done their token woman thing, and will go back to the boys club this year.
Wouldn’t a VP selection to broaden the ticket make more sense?
I just can’t see how the Bigot Party goes with a dirty Cuban. Even a polished, neoconservative one. The only thing worse would be a dirty Mexican.
But what do I know next to the all-seeing prescience and wisdom of the “Beltway pundit class?”
Even when you’re right, and the pundit is wrong, you don’t know jack, because you’re you and the pundit is a pundit. Same for me.
Is the term “dirty” really necessary here?
Really? You got the vapors after I implied that members of what I referred to as “the Bigot Party” might have a problem with those of the non-caucasian persuasion?
I merely note the term, that is all.
Half-term governor Nikki Haley?
Conservatism means keeping with the old ways, adhering to tradition…
Oh, and Joseph Farah wants La Palin to run in the Democratic primaries.
Joe Biden.
Is he the Democratic VP? Should Obama pick a different person?
Remember how the Biden/Palin debate worked out for the GOP. They cannot afford a repeat. Biden has all it takes to debate whatever the GOP decides on.
He’s asking for the future. Our field is wide open in 2016, Biden is old, and it might help if we had someone else.
I don’t have any opinion(s) on the merits of this, or whether there should be a new VP.
Biden is good, works well with Barack. he should stay
saw on TPM that Nader is planning to primary Obama.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/#415
maybe 2012 will make a real dent in the Koch bros $ – how are they going to pay for Nader to get on the ballot and run campaigns in a multitude of states?
Ugh! If he does, I’ll vote for Obama. Nader has no true vocation for the office, he merely wants the attention.
Nader – not just for the attention, he’s definitely a spoiler. Miserliness is his character flaw, he’ll probably be collecting $ from Koch bros and their ilk if he runs. another part of their strategy to depress the Obama vote turnout, so I’m glad to hear you’ll vote for Obama if he runs!
You can read that two ways. Others seem to have read that as “How about Romney for VP?” I read it as “How about if Romney wins the nomination? Who would he pick.” I’m interested in which meaning you intended.
Anyway, taking the second meaning, if Romney wins the top slot, he will almost have to pick a Tea Party VP, otherwise he risks them staying home. Although regional balance is not as important as it was, a
crazyTea Party Southerner would be a good choice for Party Unity.Perry on the other hand as a white Southern Conservative running against a sitting Northern black man (yes, I’m well aware he is as white as he is black, but the one drop rule seems to still apply in the USA), would have to pick a Northerner, maybe Bachmann, but he would be well advised to go with someone acceptable to the Wall Street/Country Club Republicans. Maybe Huntsman? Otherwise ALL the Wall Street money will flow to Obama. Wall Street is not interested in drowning the government. Wall Street wants a nice strong government that will bail them out and generally look out for their welfare. Maybe they should push Jeb Bush, or is he waiting in the wings for 2016 and the open Oval Office and the Tea Party disgraced?
yes, I meant to ask both scenarios, not suggest Mittens for Perry’s choice.
If it’s Romney, he probably has to pick someone from the South, a member of Congress, a Baptist, and close to the Tea Party.
If it’s Perry, he has to pick someone from outside the South, a member of Congress, and moderate enough.
Both can go for an older or a younger candidate.
Romney-Isaakson
Perry-Thune
How’s that for out-of-the-box?