Rachel Maddow agrees with me: No senators for VP!!

[newmajority]

She also says that Obama can't run with anyone who was trying to undermine his message of change. So that excludes Hillary on both counts.

And apparently either Rachel, or David Bender, or both are reading DU, because they addressed the idea of Rachel being White House Press Secretary, which I know started on this very board. (I may have been the first to suggest it)

Unfortunately she said she wouldn't want to be anywhere near "the pageant" of the White House.

Too bad. I still think she would do a Hell of a job.

[monmouth]

1. Well if Rachel won't do it, then Stephen Colbert is the one!...n/t

[newmajority]

3. And when the FAUX noize "reporters" ask him some stupid questions

He can turn the bears loose on them? :evilgrin:

[monmouth]

8. Hahaha, what a team that would....n/t

[ErinBerin84]

2. I've never heard Maddow get to chime in with who she thinks would make a good VP

Like, has she named any specific names? I'm always waiting to hear it from her on Race to the White House, but David Gregory seems to "conveniently" cut Rachel off and end the segment when it seems that they are getting to that point.

[newmajority]

5. She didn't name anyone specifically as her favorite

She thinks Tim Kaine might have the best chance out of the names currently being floated in the media, because he's not a senator, wasn't a primary opponent,and wasn't undermining his message of change (as a Hillary surrogate might have been doing).

I see her logic, but I'm not sold on Kaine.

[Barack_America]

4. Agreed. People are bleeding the Senate dry with their VP and Cabinet choices. nt

[billyoc]

6. If I'm supposed to trust Obama to run the country, I should be able to trust him to pick a VP.

[DarthDem]

7. Certainly not Bayh or Reed

I don't agree with Rachel on Hillary or Biden, but people floating the names of any Senator as Obama's VP (or a Cabinet) pick, who hails from a state with a Rethuglican governor, should just stop it. Particularly with Bayh, where we might not get the seat back in the foreseeable future. Enough already! We have to maximize that Senate majority.

Rachel or Colbert as White House press secretary . . . I have no words. Too amazing even to think about.

:)