He needs a new vice president

[Mend]

the only way I can see bush recovering anything in the way of polls and power, is to get rid of a bunch of people and get a new vice president from the outside, such as McCain or one of the other puke governors or senators that isn't totally despised. Condi wouldn't do him any good at all...it would have to be someone not too tainted by Treasongate. Any he would need to dump rummy, too.

[Sanity Claws]

1. McCain would not accept

About a week ago, he made a remark about how being a vice president is not worth doing. I thought it was an odd thing for him to say at the time but in hindsight, he was probably already privy to the rumors circulating around town that Cheney would be resigning.

[Vincardog]

2. Not going to happen. Loyalty is everything to the $hrub.

You do not expect him to admit responsibility are you?

[Mend]

7. I pray you are right....I want him to keep right on

going over the cliff.

[VolcanoJen]

3. If he picks Goober, I'm going to puke.

Seems like a logical set-up for '08 to pick a Bush loyalist and presidential hopeful like George Allen.

:puke:

I just can't see them going with "non-players" like McCain, or Lindsey Graham (another one on the gossipy short-list)...

[Burried News]

4. Who would Ariel Sharon recommend?

Someone who could help the roadmap get lost.

[Mend]

6. Joe Lieberman....

[Burried News]

8. That didn't take long.

[napi21]

5. I heard two names mentioned this AM. McCain & Lindsey Graham.

It was from some memo that Lynn Cullen read on her show this morning.

I guess those are the 2 names floating out there now.

[Norquist Nemesis]

9. Looks like Michael Brown will be available soon!

Bush better snap him up quick before someone else nabs him!

[mmonk]

10. He needs a new job

[longship]

11. Not McCain

1. McCain has a reputation of going off the farm ideologically. Shrub will not nominate such a person for Veep.

2. Arizona has a Dem governor. McCain accepting Veep nomination will allow Napolitano to appoint a Democrat to replace McCain in Senate. Shrub would not allow that.

So everybody. No McCain for Veep.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. He would have the effrontery to pick his own brother Jeb

The Bush political machine wouldn't pick McCain, while brother Jeb waits in the wings. This is the golden opportunity to bring Jeb to national prominence without having to go through a messy political campaign against McCain. The GOP could have yet another coronation at their convention in 2008 and the Bush cabal would have a whole new set of treasonous schemes to look forward to.

[BeyondThePale]

13. Hastert, Hastert, Bastard, Hastert (nt)

[jmowreader]

14. Not Hastert, and for the same reason McCain won't be chosen

Denny Hastert is a Republican representing a state with a Democratic governor.

Let's assume for just a moment that Bush decides to choose a Republican senator from a state that has a Republican governor.

The states that have Republican governors, along with their Republican senators, are:
Alabama: Jeff Sessions, Richard Shelby
Alaska: Lisa Murkowski, Ted Stevens
Arkansas: none
California: none
Colorado: Wayne Allard
Connecticut: none (no, Lieberman doesn't count)
Florida: Mel Martinez
Georgia: Saxby Chambliss, Johnny Isakson
Hawaii: none
Idaho: Larry Craig, Michael Crapo
Indiana: Richard Lugar
Kentucky: Jim Bunning, Mitch McConnell
Maryland: none
Massachusetts: none
Minnesota: Norm Coleman
Mississippi: Thad Cochran, Trent Lott
Missouri: Christopher Bond, James Talent
Nebraska: Chuck Hagel
Nevada: John Ensign
New York: none
North Dakota: none
Ohio: Mike DeWine, George Voinovich
Rhode Island: Lincoln Chafee
South Carolina: Jim DeMint, Lindsey Graham
South Dakota: John Thune
Texas: John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison
Utah: Robert Bennett, Orrin Hatch
Vermont: none

Of all the names NOT on that list, there's one who stands out. Hillary.

A couple of days ago I posited that Bush might choose Hillary Clinton as his vice president then flee the country. What the ascension of Hillary would do, besides giving the Repugs another President Emmanuel Goldstein, is to drop the task of replacing a Democratic senator into the hands of a Republican governor.

Let's forget Hillary for a bit and focus on the Repugs. The person Bush chooses needs to be five things: stupid, corrupt, hard-right, in love with Dear Leader, and insignificant. Assume Bush won't ever resign. This gives us the sad choice of Lisa Murkowski, Saxby Chambliss, and Norm Coleman. He can't pick someone like Trent Lott because he needs someone with a lot of experience in walking bills through Congress to remain in the Senate. Pretty much everyone else either has a brain, isn't a total sleaze or won't put up with Bush's shit for very long.

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15. daddy daddy daddy

I still say if had to pick a caretaker veep for the next couple of years, he'd pick his old man. No threat to any of the competing candidates for the 2008 nomination, so no party division. Public, deservedly or not, will treat George Herbert Walker as having the requisite experience and qualifications to run the country if it came to that.

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