GO! FRed Thompson GO!
Posted on 04/19/2008 8:27:27 PM PDT by orebuck07
For my inaugural post on FreeRepublic.com, something I should have posted about a month ago. Just in time to be too late for the NCAA Basketball Tournament, here now is the (unofficial) Republican Veepstakes Bracket. The field is broken down in to four regions (Governors, Congress, Cabinet, and Activists) of 16 participants. Note that I don't condone betting or pools, and I'm sure FR doesn't either.
Governor's Region:
#1 Mitt Romney (MA) versus #16 Jodi Rell (CT); #8 Sonny Perdue (GA) versus #9 Rick Perry (TX); #5 Bobby Jindal (LA) versus #12 Matt Blunt (MO); #4 Mike Huckabee (AR) versus #13 Linda Lingle (HI); #6 Mark Sanford (SC) versus #11 Sarah Palin (AK); #3 Charlie Crist (FL) versus #14 George Pataki (NY); #7 Haley Barbour (MS) versus #10 Mitch Daniels (IN); #2 Tim Pawlenty (MN) versus #15 Ernie Fletcher (KY);
Congressional Region:
#1 Tom Coburn (OK) versus #16 (Either Rick Santorum (PA) Or Joe Lieberman (CT)); #8 Mike Pence (IN) versus #9 Duncan Hunter (CA); #5 Elizabeth Dole (NC) versus #12 Richard Burr (NC); #4 Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX) versus #13 John Thune (SD); #6 Fred Thompson (TN) versus #11 Jim DeMint (SC); #3 Marsha Blackburn (TN) versus #14 JC Watts (OK); #7 Bill Frist (TN) versus #10 Roy Blunt (MO); #2 Lindsey Graham (SC) versus #15 Steve King (IA);
Cabinet Region:
#1 Condoleezza Rice (CA) versus #16 Ken Blackwell (OH); #8 Rod Paige (MS) versus #9 David Wilkins (SC); #5 Robert Gates (TX) versus #12 Spencer Abraham (MI); #4 John Snow (OH) versus #13 John Bolton (MD); #6 Mike Leavitt (UT) versus #11 Tommy Thompson (WI); #3 Rob Portman (OH) versus #14 Gale Norton (CO); #7 Elaine Chao (KY) versus #10 Colin Powell (NY); #2 Tom Ridge (PA) versus #15 Christine Todd Whitman (NJ);
Activists Region:
#1 Steve Forbes (NJ) versus #16 Pat Buchanan (DC); #8 Lynn Swann (PA) versus #9 Marc Racicot (MT); #5 Michael Steele (MD) versus #12 Gary Bauer (KY); #4 John Kasich (OH) versus #13 Ken Mehlman (MD); #6 Joe Scarborough (FL) versus #11 Grover Norquist (MA); #3 Newt Gingrich (GA) versus #14 Alan Keyes (NY); #7 Tom McClintock (CA) versus #10 Ed Gillespie (VA); #2 Rudy Giuliani (NY) versus #15 James Dobson (LA);
Enjoy the Veepstakes and good luck with your brackets!
What a clever idea. I will try to submit mine tommorrow.
Governor's Region: Crist
Congressional Region: Coburn
Cabinet Region: Condi Rice (Ridge as a #2 seed? C'mon! Get real.)
Activists Region: John Kasich
Crist vs. Rice
Crist
Clever idea, indeed.
GO! FRed Thompson GO!
How does this work?
Is there voting?
somehow I don’t think you’ve thought your cunning plan through...
;)
It’s based on who is most likely to be chosen by JSM III.
Congressional Region: Mike Pence, Duncan Hunter
Governor's Region: Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour
Cabinet Region: Tommy Thompson, Tom Ridge
Activists Region: Michael Steele, Steve Forbes
Out of left field: Joe Lieberman, Bloomberg
Brilliant idea! Welcome to FR
Great idea! There has got to be a way to declare winners on each round. Maybe the number of media mentions or just pure voting. This would be a lot of fun!
Joe Lieberman is in the play-in game against Rick Santorum. Bloomberg would be a #2 seed in the Veepstakes NIT.
Pence and Hunter face each other in their opening-round game.
Thompson and Ridge would meet in the Sweet 16. Ditto for Steele and Forbes.
I’d like Mark Levine- the late night radio host who follows Hannity. Brains, guts, and kicks liberal @ss at every opportunity. My kind of (VP) guy.
lol
The Great One = NIT #4 Seed.
What if McCain truly ends up picking somebody that’s not even on your list of choices? It’s always a possibility. Herman Cain, Janice Rogers Brown, and Jeff Bezos are just three choices that come to mind out of a finite number of possible people for McCain to seriously choose from. I’m just saying that it’s possible, and I’m also seriously not saying that it’s probable. There are a lot of people who would accept the VP position if it’s seriously offered to them.
Is Bezos a Republican, or just a checkbook with a pulse?
Jindal would be awesome on the ticket, but I’d rather him be governor for a few years and run for high office himself.
Would the Great One be required to endorse him?
Jeff Bezos is a very strong supporter of John McCain, and he supported McCain as well as donated money during his last run for POTUS. It truly wouldn’t surprise me at all if McCain ends up choosing a non-Republican as his final choice for VP, but, as far as I know, Jeff Bezos is a registered Republican who has supported a variety of Republicans for a variety of political offices through the years.
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