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Romney's VP announcement coming Thursday or Friday? (Original Post) Justice wanted Aug 2012 OP
I am predicting he chooses a celebrity like Chuck Norris Bjorn Against Aug 2012 #1
BUT will he annouce his Vice President On Thursday or Friday of this week? Justice wanted Aug 2012 #3
I can't tell you a day, I would expect it will be very soon though Bjorn Against Aug 2012 #5
Ann Coulter Rosa Luxemburg Aug 2012 #2
Not asking who you think it will be BUT Will he annouce it? Justice wanted Aug 2012 #4
maybe he will never announce it? Rosa Luxemburg Aug 2012 #6
I thought that he had already announced his pick, and that it was JDPriestly Aug 2012 #7

Bjorn Against

(12,041 posts)
1. I am predicting he chooses a celebrity like Chuck Norris
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 11:48 PM
Aug 2012

I seriously think Romney is desperate enough that he would make a choice completely designed for media attention with no thought paid to the qualifications of the candidate at all. I think he may just outdumb the Palin pick and go for someone like Chuck Norris who would be certain to get huge amounts of media coverage despite the fact, or perhaps because of the fact that he is an idiot. Romney needs someone who will get the attention off his tax returns, that won't happen with a bland candidate like Portman or Pawlenty. If he nominated Chuck Norris however it would get around the clock media coverage, it would be the worst Presidential ticket in the history of this nation but it would get a number of idiots out to vote nonetheless. Most of the time they say a Presidential nominee needs to choose someone who won't upstage him, most of the time however they choose a candidate that is as universally unpopular as Mitt Romney. In this case I think the Republicans need to choose a candidate that will completely upstage Mitt because Mitt is so damaged that they need to get the cameras off him and hope people will vote for their idiot VP candidate.

Bjorn Against

(12,041 posts)
5. I can't tell you a day, I would expect it will be very soon though
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 12:09 AM
Aug 2012

He is desperate to get the focus off of his tax returns so he will make the decision as soon as he possibly can, he would have announced it today if he was ready to. It takes a lot of preparation done in secret behind the scenes between the time a candidate is selected and the time he makes an announcement, he almost certainly has a candidate selected but there is a huge amount of work that goes into introducing a VP candidate and who knows how far along they are in their preparations.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
7. I thought that he had already announced his pick, and that it was
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 01:41 AM
Aug 2012

someone from Ohio. I thought I read that maybe last weekend.

Was I dreaming?

It was someone I had not heard of before.

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