We Should be Worried if McCain selects Romney as His VP

[Bullet1987]

I don't think McCain wins Michigan any other way unless he selects Mittens Romney as his running mate. He's supposedly really popular up there and could really help McCain in a much needed way with regards to the economy. A positive though is that Romney isn't any more liked with the Evangelicals than McCain is, but still...a McCain/Romney ticket worries me the most. Any of those other guys are irrelvant to me.

Jindal doesn't have a chance in hell IMHO, the only reason his name has even come up is because of Obama. If Barack didn't run this cycle...we likely would not even be hearing about Jindal. The McCain camp is throwing out a smokescreen to make it seem like the Republicans are as diverse as the Democrats (which everybody knows is BS).

Mike Huckleberry doesn't scare me much either. He does appeal to the Evangelicals...but that's about it. He also has a tendancy to put his foot in his mouth (as seen in the Obama/shooting joke) and that's not something I think the McCain camp wants to deal with.

[Thrill]

1. Go look at the ads Kennedy ran against Romney. I think we WANT him to pick Romney

He buys companies and lays off the employees.

[goodgd_yall]

30. Agree

As stated in a post downthread, McCain would be wiser to choose a guy with a working class background like Pawlenty of Minnesota.

[ingac70]

2. You forget evangelicals...

That may have held their noses and voted for McCain will probably sit the election out rather than vote Mormon.

[philkd]

31. Mitt for VP would put the South into play for real

Might make McCain more competitive in North and West but would add major vulnerabilities - especially with people considering his health and age the VP taking over is a real possibility.

[MrRobotsHolyOrders]

35. Mitt is suicide

He's worth maybe a point in Michigan (and that's being generous), but he'll be poison to McCain's base.

[BOSSHOG]

3. One thing is quite crystal clear

The Dems bench is way deep relative to VP and cabinet posts. The (R's) have just a bunch of clowns and buffoons.

"bobby" jindal will soon be a total disgrace to the grand old party. He's done a heckuva job buffaloing the fools in Louisiana to vote for him so far.

[underpants]

4. The only VP pick that scares me is Eric Cantor

Va-7th

Conservative credentials and he is jewish
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[PlanetBev]

9. Yikes, Underpants...

That is a bone-chilling thought. I never thought of that.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

37. Meh, I'm in his district. Wasn't he totally owned by Tweety or someone

about Iran and the seperations of powers? I think he basically said that the military should decide what wars we should fight. He's a pretty smarmy guy that I think alot people will see through.

[Fire_brand]

5. No, we should throw a party. I'll bring the vermin.

[DefenseLawyer]

13. Mitt will bring the varmints n/t

[DrDan]

6. I think Michigan is the key to the GE

if mccain wins Mich, then I think he has a really good chance to win the GE.

[ninja8590]

15. That's true for Obama as well

if he wins Michigan he will win the GE I think.

[DrDan]

26. I agree - that is why I said I feel it is the key to the GE

but right now, Obama is ok. If mccain finds the right words and the right message, then I think he can swing it away from Obama. Seems to me the key is job creation. If mccain can come up with a way to stimulate Michigan employment, and can articulate it, then I think he really has a chance to steal the state.

I don't think his tax-cut or his war messages will cut it there.

[TahitiNut]

19. That's a very rational concern, imho ... and I'm a Michigander.

I've been raising this alarm since before January's FUBAR ... which (imho) cost the Democrats about 5% of the vote here.

[DrDan]

23. I live in Florida - and agree completely with you on the DNC debacle

will cost the party GE votes down here as well - many LTTEs criticizing the DNC - I have yet to see one in the Daytona paper criticizing the state leaders.

I don't want to get back in to it - but it will have an impact that carries in to the GE.

[smoogatz]

7. I think Mittens and McGoo pretty much hate each other.

So, I doubt we'll see Romney as McGoo's VP choice. Honestly, I don't know who he'll pick—maybe Grandpa Fred, on the theory that as long as Grandpa Fred's around, McCain won't be the oldest guy in the room. Best case he'll pick some relic of the Bush administration, like Condi Rice, maybe, in a desperate attempt to make himself look inclusive.

[newmajority]

8. The most important thing we need to observe about McCain's likely VP picks

Is that he's looking at governors. McCain, or his handlers, understand the reality that two senators will not win the Presidential election.

If Obama's team does not understand that reality, we're fucked. :evilfrown:

[Ravy]

10. Huckleberry will give the media the sound bites it craves, and will

keep the republicans out in front of the public more. That, plus the evangelical vote scares me the most.

[SuperTrouper]

16. Romney does not scare me

I do wonder if Virginia's Tom Davis keeps VA in GOP territory...that is why I think that Obama needs to convince Mark Warner or Florida's Senator Nelson to join him on the ticket.

[PBS Poll-435]

11. Is Romney going to tie McCain to the roof of his mini-van?

Just like poor Seamus?

[SuperTrouper]

17. ROTFLMAO

too funny!!

[bunkerbuster1]

12. McCain/Romney--enter the flip-flop vortex!

Between the two of them, is there an issue on which they haven't pulled a 180?

[krispos42]

14. Mitten's flips compensate for McCains flops?

He he he.

At any given minute, one of them will be on the correct side of an issue and the other will not.

[Mooney]

18. McCain will pick a woman.

He'll try to capitalize on the mistaken assumption that female voters will swarm to any ticket with a woman on it, no matter who it is, now that Hillary Clinton isn't running any more.

Look for him to tap a feminist icon such as Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Jean Schmidt.

[DefenseLawyer]

21. I doubt the GOP bosses would let him

For every Clinton supporter they gain they lose at least one Southern "the woman serves the man" Baptist or "Phyllis Schlafly feminist" from their base.

[Mooney]

27. But he's a maverick!

Nobody tells Iron Balls McCain what's what.

[ingac70]

25. Jean Schmidt...

:rofl:

[book_worm]

20. Why would Mittens be popular in Michigan? just because his dad was governor in the 60's?

[TahitiNut]

28. Mittens was born and raised in Michigan

He graduated from the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1965 ... a prep school for the spoiled children of the well-heeled like his dad. George, if you'll recall, was chairman of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962. Detroit. Auto industry. Do the freaking math.

[BlooInBloo]

22. MITTENS!!!!

:rofl:

[Nye Bevan]

24. If McCain picks Mitt we are *definitely* going to lose

the state of Utah. :-(

[goodgd_yall]

29. Choosing Romney kills the Blue Collar vote for McCain

Someone like Pawlenty, the governor of Minnesota, I think is someone to be more worried about. Romney appeals to business owners and McCain already has their vote. He needs to strengthen his blue-collar appeal.

[arewenotdemo]

32. I agree.

What would be Romney's effect in Colorado?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

33. I would love for Romney to be on the ticket!! It's a surefire win for us!

Romney is the #1 flip-flopper in the world. With him and McDumbya's flip-flops, we'd all have a ball with You Tube.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

34. Suckaby and Mittens are probably his best picks. One helps pull

a surpise in MI the other helps bring out the funddies. Luckily, none of them do both.

[Colobo]

36. Romney is a flip-flopper and a fruitcake.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

38. Mitt "Jimmy Buffett" Romney?

He's a flip-flop machine.