Poll: Who do YOU think Mitt Romney will pick to be his VP running mate?

[Tx4obama]

Note: The poll below only allows for 10 options
So, here are additional names being tossed around that did not fit in the below in the main list
Kelly Ayotte (Sen-NH), Brian Sandoval (Gov-NV), Susana Martinez (Gov-NM), Condolezza Rice
and Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley (Gov-SC)

Who do YOU think Romney will pick to be his VP running mate?

28 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Rob Portman (Sen-OH)
	9 (32%)
	Marco Rubio (Sen-FL)
	6 (21%)
	Paul Ryan (Rep-WI)
	1 (4%)
	Chris Christie (Gov-NJ)
	2 (7%)
	Bobby Jindal (Gov-LA)
	0 (0%)
	Tim Pawlenty (ex-Gov-MN)
	1 (4%)
	Bob McDonnell (Gov-VA)
	0 (0%)
	Jeb Bush (ex-Gov-FL)
	2 (7%)
	Mitch Daniels (Gov-IN)
	0 (0%)
	Other
	7 (25%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[MrSlayer]

1. Other.

And I think the Indiana governor is named Daniels, not McDaniels.

[Tx4obama]

3. Well. there's no way to edit the poll - so I guess it will have to stay that way :(

And Bob McDonnell should have an additional 'L' on his name in the above list too.

p.s. I thought I had everything perfect when I checked before posting, but I guess I didn't.
Oh well - they are only republicans.

[MrSlayer]

5. It's ok.

We know what you meant.

[emulatorloo]

7. Yes, we all know that asshole republofacist governor of Indiana

[Tx4obama]

11. Well that was weird. The 1st time there was no way to edit the list, then the 2nd time I clicked

on edit it let me edit the names.

Weird!

All fixed now


Edited to add:

Apparently it was user error, I just realized that I didn't scroll down far enough down the edit page the first time, duh.

[LiberalFighter]

59. Well if some people can't get his name right that is a good thing.

[Carla in Sequim]

74. 'other'

His wife.

[onehandle]

2. Rubio. It was always going to be Mittens/Rubio.

And when they lose, Rubio will have an uncomfortably good chance of being elected President in 2016.

[gateley]

15. I don't think so -- I think Rubio would overshadow Romney, and we can't have that. Although,

it worked -- to a point -- for McCain.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

33. I agree, Rubio would outshine Romney

lesson learned from McCain, pick someone duller than yourself.

[Sheepshank]

46. Other..Def not Rubio

Rubio as Vp with RMoney, and then losing BIG TIME, would have this huge political albatross handing around his neck when he gets ready for his run at POTUS. He does not want that.

I didn't see Condi Rice. I vote for Condi.

[coalition_unwilling]

62. Duller than Romney? Well, I have a sack of rocks I might

nominate

[emulatorloo]

4. Governor Nikki Haley

She's been doing the apologist thing for him lately.

He needs a female running-mate.

Plus she is delusional, lies like a pro, and is a Teabagger. Real pluses for the base.

[Tx4obama]

6. Oh yeah, I forgot about her. But she has some legal problems going on currently. n/t

[emulatorloo]

10. Good! She can get all martyr-y about it like Palin did!

"evil outside political operatives and chicago-style politics personally attacking me with frivolous hateful lie filled stories and lawsuits."

Republican base eats that up too!

[Tx4obama]

12. Here's some info

(Gov Nikki) Haley indictment imminent?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125126600

Gov. Nikki Haley's Campaign To Repay South Carolina Thousands For Security On Fundraising Trips
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/gov-nikki-haleys-campaign_n_1432161.html

Republicans Accuse Nikki Haley (R-SC) Of Lying
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125129856

[gateley]

16. Good, but I don't think this would stop them from using her. They'll just spin it. nt

[grantcart]

8. Governor from a must have state = guessing McDonnell

[madinmaryland]

82. How about Portman? Isn't he from Ohio, or is Ohio a lost cause for the Pukes?

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. Condi Rice is my worry as a 'game changer' She's one of the best

liars I ever seen in politics...

[Warren DeMontague]

32. condi rice is pro choice.

Never happen.

[Dawgs]

34. Hasn't she also said nice things about Obama or his policies in the past?

I could be wrong.

I guess I could google it, but right now I'm too lazy.

[Daniel537]

36. I think she would probably work to our advantage

Play a bunch of clips from 2002 with her ranting on about mushroom clouds from Iraq and it might just get people to remember just how bad the Bush years were with that horrendous choice to invade.

[madinmaryland]

81. She also wears the bush-cheney tar. Makes it tough for her to get any traction.

[FailureToCommunicate]

85. On second thought...I was wrong about Al Gore's pick: Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) was a

sure thing, I thought. When he was introduced on stage with Gore at the annual disability convention of the President's Committee, they were greeted like rock stars. Slam dunk I thought!

Then Gore a few days later picked Joe LIEberman and everyone... fell...asleep.

So, I give up

[CTyankee]

13. I wonder what "other" means...

[Tx4obama]

19. It means a person that is not on the list, a person's name that can be mentioned in the comments, or

someone that we might not heard of yet.

p.s. Were you joking?

[CTyankee]

22. No, I just wanted to know who was "other" on the list. I didn't know there was an "other" in the

republican party. I have no clue as to another republican and I don't care. I will never support a republican, no matter what. So it doesn't matter. And as far as I am concerned, there is no "other" waiting in the wings as a republican hopeful. none. nada. forget it.

[LiberalFighter]

61. It's what you write in the write-in spot on the Republican Primary ballot

[MuseRider]

14. I worry about Jebbie.

I did not vote, I was so hoping for the exciting team of Mittens and TPaw.

It would be a perfect set up to untarnish the Bush name, even just as the running mate. See guys? He is not like his brother and has the experience as Governor and his great Daddy to lean on.

I simply can't imagine the Bush family staying out of things. It would be a great boost for Jeb and in another 4 years many people will have forgotten Little Boots and his merry gang of criminals.

[CTyankee]

23. T-Paw's bridge falling down would be enough for me to get really UN excited!

A great monument to his governorship, to be sure.

Wonderful testimony to our crumbling infrastcurture, isn't it?

[MuseRider]

26. Gods yes.

A great monument and testimony and one I fear we will be seeing a lot more of.

The guy just cracks me up. When I heard he was calling himself TPaw to draw in the kids I think I laughed about as hard as I ever had. He is such a weenie.

[flamingdem]

38. He's more popular with Latinos than Rubio

especially in FL and TX

[RZM]

17. I don't see Bush, Jindal, Christie, or T-Paw as real options

Bush has that famous Bush baggage.

Jindal isn't much of a factor nowadays. He blew his shot to be on the national radar.

T-Paw is boring as hell and doesn't bring much to the ticket.

Christie isn't a good fit with Romney at the top. By Republican standards, he's not a rock-solid conservative and Mitt is vulnerable there. He'll pick somebody that helps shore up the base and Christie ain't that.

[GoCubsGo]

57. Jindal is also not from a swing state.

That's the main thing they'll be looking at.

[Alexander]

18. My guess is Portman. Someone bland, boring, and unlikely to rock the boat. Like Romney.

Sandoval's pro-choice, Martinez wouldn't help Romney carry New Mexico, Rice wouldn't help with the base, and Haley is, shall we say, Palinesque. I don't think the Republican Party will want to go through Palin v. 2.0.

Ayotte may have a chance, I noticed she endorsed Romney early on and campaigned for him in New Hampshire. She's as right-wing as they get, although I do have to wonder about the image of two New England Republicans on the ticket.

[Tx4obama]

20. How about John Thune (Sen-SD) ? I forgot about him. n/t

[Tx4obama]

21. Book On Rubio Details Grandfather Defying Deportation Order

Marco Rubio’s maternal grandfather was ordered back to Cuba because he flew here without a visa according to an new book by Manual Roig-Franzia, a Style section writer for the Washington Post.

…the grandfather’s treatment during his 1962 run-in with federal authorities “was not unlike the present-day experiences of many Mexicans and Central Americans who come to the United States legally but later run afoul of visa laws and find their lives irreversibly upended.”

Rubio was born a U.S. citizen in Miami in 1971 to two Cuban exiles who arrived in the U.S. in the late 1950s. Roig-Franzia reports that the grandfather, Pedro Victor García, did not leave the U.S. as ordered, but remained in Miami, possibly on retroactive refugee status.

http://www.alan.com/2012/04/25/book-on-rubio-details-grandfather-defying-deportation-order/

[GoCubsGo]

24. Gov. Martinez of New Mexico.

She's female and Latino. And, not Cuban Latino like Rubio. She also doesn't have as many skeletons in her closet as does my cretinous governor, Nikki Haley. If Haley wasn't so blatantly corrupt, she might stand a chance, only because she is "hot", and that has far more sway in the GOP than does being qualified. (See: Sarah Palin)

[leftynyc]

48. I thought the same, but

I've heard she has a disabled family member (sister, I think) and she has said it would be too traumatic for her to either move, or have Martinez far away. She has stated she will not accept the position for this reason. I'm going to try and find the story.

[GoCubsGo]

50. I hadn't heard that.

It explains why her name hasn't been in the mix.

[leftynyc]

49. Here's the story

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/why-susana-martinez-wont-be-romneys-vp/

clip:

But Martinez insists that when she says “no,” she means it.

Martinez told the Journal recently that her responsibility as guardian of her developmentally disabled sister, Lettie, in Las Cruces is one that she can’t take to Washington, D.C., regardless of who calls.

“The family has to be a consideration, and for me to take (my sister) to Washington would be to separate her from … the family that’s down there, and that would be devastating,” Martinez said. “I just couldn’t do it.”

Staying in Las Cruces allows Martinez’s 54-year-old sister to remain near their father, Jake, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and lives nearby in El Paso, Martinez said. Despite the Alzheimer’s, Martinez has said, her father has continued to recognize her sister.

[GoCubsGo]

51. Thank you.

At least she has her priorities right.

[leftynyc]

52. Yes, she does

Which is why it puzzles me that she's a republican.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

25. Jindal

He's from the south and he (or at least his parents are) is from India. Rmoney kills two birds with one stone.

[WeekendWarrior]

27. I'm thinking Sarah Palin. nt.

[Tx4obama]

30. The 2008 Palin (left) or the 2012 Palin (right) ?

[WeekendWarrior]

42. God she's beautiful.

What a lovely, lovely looking woman.

[Tx4obama]

43. You've got to be kidding right? She looks drunk in the photo on the right. n/t

[WeekendWarrior]

44. I was hoping the

sarcasm was obvious.

Not only do I think she's ugly because of what's inside, I think she's aggressively unattractive.

[Tippy]

90. I am thinking he may have no other choice...

Other canidates might refuse ...Palin on the other hand would think she is once again called to (rescue)

[Ruby the Liberal]

28. Susana Martinez nt

[DCBob]

45. Thats my guess as well.

[leftynyc]

53. See post 49

It's why she wont be the pick.

[DCBob]

54. I didnt know that.

I think she means it. Thanks for that.

That's a big name off the list.

[leftynyc]

55. She was the only one I was

worried about so I've been keeping an eye out for any news of her. The rest are bland nothings.

[Carla in Sequim]

29. I have no idea who he'll choose, but...

somebody on the ticket has to have foreign policy experience.

John McCain had it so he could go 'rogue' with his VP choice. Romney would have no clue what to do in a crisis unless bombs went off at one of his homes or in France.

The list above has one on it that does, Rice (gasp). If it isn't someone like that, he's really done. So let's hope his advisers forget it is important.

[Bolo Boffin]

31. Rand Paul. n/t

[bluedigger]

86. I think so, too.

Paul will give his blessing to the Romney/Rand Paul ticket, and his Paulbots. Then Rand will run on his own in 2016, with what's left of the Republican Party.

[Daniel537]

35. I still think it'll be Rubio

The fact that he's stopped talking about whether or not he wants to be VP shows that he's probably being vetted by the Romney campaign. I think Romney would probably be more comfortable with a Rob Portman, but he desperately needs to win Florida and has to put somebody on the ticket to the gin up the not so enthusiastic base. Also i wouldn't discount Brian Sandoval. Romney is in big trouble out West.

[flamingdem]

39. Only if Rubio succumbs to massive GOP pressure

He'd rather wait 4 years I think

[NNRA]

37. Rubio might be his date, but He's going home with Portman

He's parading Rubio around, but I don't think there is any chance he is gonna pick Rubio. I think Rubio will get skewered. I don't think the republican't base is gonna go for him. They are . . . a touch racist. LOL

[LiberalFighter]

40. The car he forced Seamus to ride on top.

[JoePhilly]

41. Does not matter ... his list of potential VPs SUCKS!!!!

Each bring very little to the table ... and most bring some really evil GOP baggage with them.

He won't touch any of the folks he ran against ... and this group is a bunch of clowns as well.

Obama had Biden and Hillary ... Mitt has, well ... nothing.

[Lil Missy]

47. I don't think about it. At all.

[MoreGOPoop]

56. Other:

Bain Capital ("Corporations are people, too...&quot

[Ilsa]

58. I picked Jindal.

RMoney's ticket needs "color" and southerners.

[RZM]

60. Bobby J? I don't think so

If they are going for color, they won't pick him. Indian-Americans are a pretty small percentage of the population. That's not much bang for your buck, color-wise (I actually think no minority pick would be for them, but that's a different story). And Jindal is seriously handicapped in the not-lame department.

[Splinter Cell]

63. Rubio..

On his Wikipedia page it says his family attened a Morman church for a few years. That may have a negative impact with the bible thumpers. They already don't like/trust Mittens.

Huckabee would be his strongest bet.

[TBF]

64. I did a search to see when I first thought it would be Mittens/Rubio

and I can trace that back to Jan. '11 - others can probably trace it back farther. Florida is a big state and Rubio can potentially pull a couple of demographics that he would like to have.

[quaker bill]

65. I went with Pawlenty

simply because he has a less interesting personality than Mittens. If you consider that the basis, the field is pretty limited.

[Rochester]

66. Sam Brownback

Just a hunch.

[AlinPA]

67. Santorum. They need to get the religious nuts out to vote.

[grandtrio]

68. Dimwit Mitt

It will not be Rubio. Write it down. It's going to be hard for dimwit Mitt to pick a running mate that won't outshine him.

[Skip Intro]

69. Rubio, Haley, or Ayotte - my gut says Haley at the moment...nt

[Tx4obama]

70. See comment #12

Nikki Haley might have too much 'recent' baggage.

[Skip Intro]

71. Oh yeah, I know, she's my gov. Link you might not be familiar with:

She gets under my skin in a very Sarah Palin way.

I "liked" her on FB some time ago so I could comment on her posts. All I have seen from her is traveling around the country for fundraisers, and traveling around the world for "economic" reasons - jobs, jobs, jobs.

Now she is hawking her book, autographed, for only a $50 contribution.

She came into office raising money and she hasn't stopped.

I could go on and on, don't like her, don't like her.

But anyway, here's that link: http://www.fitsnews.com/tag/nikki-haley/

Much to read there that you may not know...

on edit: my gut still says she's right at the top of Romney's VP list because, from my perspective, having watched clips of her on Fox and Friends and other shows, she is seen by those outside of SC as a Repub/Tea Party star. Could be wrong, and SC will vote repub no matter what, but I think she's a serious candidate for the VP spot on the repub ticket. Plus, she's female, and Romney has a problem with female voters, and she's an ethnic minority, being Indian-American. Then again, she is wildly unpopular here, even within her own party.

[Marzupialis]

72. VP picks are unpredictable

I had no idea Palin was going to be chosen by McCain; so I stopped making predictions since then. Rubio is the one I think Romney will pick, but I'm nowhere near certain. He will lose to Obama regardless of pick.

[and-justice-for-all]

73. Don't know...

He will have to stick his face into a hat that has magic rocks in it to find out.

[jenmito]

75. Portman. Rubio blew it with his speech last week when he lost the last page of his speech.

Portman won't over-shadow Romney and he's safe (not inexperienced).

[onestepforward]

76. I guess I'm the lone ranger for Paul Ryan

[Raine1967]

77. I think it is going to be Ryan as well.

His sudden turn from Ayn Rand was one of those Scooby-do *HUH?* moments for me. He wants the conservative religious vote; So does Mitt. Like it or not, I think Mitt has a mormon problem within his party. Ryan appears to be a really good solution to that and a lot more.

Ryan will keep the Teabagger vote and allow Mitt to do exactly what he planned on doing all along: run to the center. Ryan will be the guy that gives the wink and the nod to the conservatives. For the GOP, and its supporters-- Ryan isn't divisive -- he's practically the architect of the party platform.

Coupled with what Boner said a few days ago about the GOP possibly losing the house, I am fairly sure choosing a sitting congressperson is a better risk than any GOP senator -- OR GOP governor.

The PArty is going after the down tickets like state houses etc. Picking a senator or a governor doesn't seem to be worth the risk -- a sitting teabagger congressperson like Ryan, I think this is the guy for R-Money.

[truebrit71]

78. Really? Don't get me wrong, I think that would be awesome...a rich guy and a guy that hates the poor

...and his district would certainly benefit if he didn't run again....but I think that would be such a mis-match...I think Joe Isuzu would be a more kindred-spirit for Willard...at least as far as sincerity goes anyway...

[Raine1967]

80. I do see what you are saying, but when it comes to mismatching --

Mittens isn't exactly in synch, ya know?

Mitt is far more concerned with what looks right on paper-- to me at least, it makes sense when looking thru the worldview that Romney has presented to us. That, coupled with what Grover Norquist said it makes even more sense for me:

"All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate. [snip]

Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared."

Thinking along this line, IF (god forbid) Romney gets elected -- Ryan is the Tie breaker in the senate. The GOP is looking for a figure head. Ryan is clearly a GOP power holder...

[onestepforward]

92. LOL! Although not official yet,

it's looking like I picked it

[LiberalFighter]

79. Norquist

[madinmaryland]

83. I don't think Mitt would select a pedophile. nt

[CTyankee]

84. Norquist is a pedophile? I've heard that he is gay, but a pedophile?

[Avon Barksdale]

87. Doesn't really matter

He could pick the ghost of Reagan as his running mate and he'll still lose.

[BlueIris]

88. Condoleezza Rice.

A loong time ago, I first predicted she would be v.p. nominee for the Republicans in 2012 here on DU.com. (I think this was back in 2009.)

Either that or maybe Ron Paul. (Gotta bring in those Tea Party freaks somehow.)

[sofa king]

89. Orrin Hatch!

Hatch has a chance of losing his primary in Utah, thanks to the Tea Party, and if he does the infuriated leadership of the LDS will angrily demand that Hatch be put on Romney's ticket.

I don't think Romney can stop them from appointing his running mate.

[davidpdx]

91. He could pick Santa Claus

and he'd still lose.