Posted on 08/18/2008 7:30:02 AM PDT by Dukes Travels
It is crunch time with respect to the vice presidential sweepstakes. With the Democratic Convention beginning next week, Barack Obama could announce his running mate at any moment – in fact, by the time you read this, it is possible he has already done so.
John McCain seems to be – smartly – waiting until Barack Obama drafts his VP before he picks, or at least announces, his guy. I obviously have no idea who it is going to be, but my previous prediction of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty remains a very likely choice. Unfortunately, it would also be a very wrong choice for many reasons, not least of which is that Pawlenty does not appear to possess the gravitas necessary for the post.
In an article I co-wrote for Roll Call newspaper in 2006 about the GOP's decision to hold their convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Sarah Janecek, the publisher of Politics in Minnesota online magazine, attributed the GOP's decision to a strategic choice to focus on the upper Midwest of the country in the 2008 race.
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We’ve been voting for the lesser of two evils for a long time. I had the attitude of not voting for Bush 41’s second term and ended up regretting it ever since. I had to admit my dad was right, but I really knew it all along. My attitude now is I’m voting against the most evil.
No Kasich. Argh, no!
Absolutely not! The same forces which pulled strings to threaten him out of office will not lose the opportunity to use him again when he might be the VP. or, maybe the President. John is compromised, to say the least!
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