CNBC: Steve Forbes - Sen KBH (R-TX) to be VP.

CNBC | 02/06/2008

[devane617]

Steve Forbes stated a few minutes ago (7:55 Central) that Sen Kay Baily Hutchenson of TX will be VP.

[devane617]

Better than having her run for Gov of TX.

[wilco200]

Why not have two pro-amnesty candidates on one “Republican ticket”

yee haa!

[Proud_texan]

Either as gov or VP it’s a pure shudder....

[dinoparty]

Details? Was this just a prognostication, or does he claim to be “in the know”?

[littlehouse36]

Better a token woman than a token black. It comes across as less (slightly less) patronizing.

[FreePaul]

As long as we have a loser running for president we might as well get rid of her also.

[LetsRok]

The only way the Republicans can win is with a minority (hispanic/black/woman) on the ticket as a VP. We have to neutralize the woman vote.

[Wallace T.]

Now you will need not only a clothes pin to hold my nose, but surgical gloves to mark the Republican ballot in November.

[mad_as_he$$]

News to the Huckster.

[wai-ming]

Is Steve Forbes running for President?

[TommyDale]

She voted in favor of the McCain-Kennedy Amnesty bill. She would never get my vote on a McCain ticket, regardless.

[Mr. Jeeves]

We have to neutralize the woman vote.

A big-haired Texas socialite isn't likely to do that. KBH is the girl Hillary's supporters hated in high school. ;)

[elizabetty]

How will she be VP? She will have to run with a Hillary or Obama because there is no way this country will elect somebody as old and mean as John McCain.

[TommyDale]

Third party with Newt Gingrich and Condoleeza Rice?

[Michigan Bowhunter]

Tim Pawlenty........from a trusted source inside the McCain campaign.

[billva]

I'm amazed, another Republican that we can't stand.

Let's just drum them all out of the party, then the democrats can control 90% of the government.

Great thinking, we can truly become a minority.

[TommyDale]

One thing is certain: Whoever calls my house from the GOP is going to get an ear full.

[TommyDale]

Who is Tim Pawlenty? Another Dan Quayle?

[crymeariver]

I understand the strategy of needing a women and needing someone from the south. But with McCain’s age, the VP spot will be important. The ticket will look too old and weary I’m afraid. Condi would be a bit better.

[Biblebelter]

America has contempt for congress, what else would you call it when approval ratings are 20 points below an “unpopular” President. If two parties run four sitting senators, then a a third pary will not win, but whoever wins will again be denied a majority of popular vote. The Senate is a snakepit of treachery, there is no other way to characterize. And McCain and Kennedy are the head serpents.

[Dixie Yooper]

Third party with Newt Gingrich and Condoleeza Rice?

Third party with Condoleeza Rice and Newt Gingrich.

[wilco200]

Sometimes you gotta hit bottom before you can rise again.

See 1976-1980.

Four years of Dem disaster can only help the conservative movement.
Four years of RINO leadership will bury it for good.

[SoFloFreeper]

Great.

The transformation is complete.

We’re a lunatic, anti-ANWR, pro-Global Warming, pro-amnesty party.

And McQueeg picks a running mate from a deeply red state.

Hurrah.

[devane617]

He stated it in the closing segment of this mornings squakbox. Did not say it was a prediction.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Tim Pawlenty........from a trusted source inside the McCain campaign.

Not much of a secret. When Pawlenty endorsed McCain way back in 2006, he was viewed as the odds-on favorite.

[Sybeck1]

With Romney, it might have been Marsha Blackburn, a good conservative.

[tsmith130]

He stated it in the closing segment of this mornings squakbox. Did not say it was a prediction.

I really find it hard to believe that this is how the announcement of McCain's VP choice would be made. Of course, I shouldn't find anything hard to believe in this election cycle.

[bill1952]

The only way the Republicans can win is with a minority (hispanic/black/woman) on the ticket as a VP.

The only way the Republicans can win is with a solid conservative who puts a minority (hispanic/black/woman) on the ticket as a VP.

fixed it

[devane617]

Now I am thinking this may have been a trial ballon...Wonder if SF just floated a ballon for his buddy McNutCase?

[rintense]

Third party with Fred Thompson and Condi Rice.

[catpuppy]

We are the stupid party ... but not that stupid.

[Just mythoughts]

T R I A L balloon just like the Clintons do. Huckabee is NOT going to sit down and shut up.

[bill1952]

Great thinking, we can truly become a minority.

Wake up. :) We already ARE.
The GOP has left us behind and we must wait out the next decade of “change” before it truly becomes so weak that we will be the majority of the minority again.

[devane617]

I was thinking Condi Rice, but I don’t think it would ever happen with McNutCase.

[indylindy]

Wow, now I am really inspired. Is the old open borders wench supposed to turn the women on?

This gets more ridiculous daily.

What about Huck? I always knew he would get kicked to the curb.

[Just mythoughts]

Sorry did not see your post...

[bill1952]

>The Senate is a snakepit of treachery, there is no other way to characterize.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer “Present” or “Not guilty.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

[devere]

“The transformation is complete. We’re a lunatic, anti-ANWR, pro-Global Warming, pro-amnesty party.”

That’s correct. We need a new party.

[rintense]

Condi Rice would make McCain look like the buffoon he is.

[kalee]

Well she’ll have to fight Huck for it? I believe he thinks he’ll be the one after all he’s done for McCain.

[Hattie]

I thought Huck was on TV this morning saying a guy would be foolish to turn down VP? Where is Huck going.

[dennisw]

Forbes is hallucinating
That would be the grandpa-grandma ticket

AIN’T GUNNA HAPPEN STEVE!

[Non-Sequitur]

It’ll be Huckabee. McCain owes him more than he owes her.

[dennisw]

I thought Huck was on TV this morning saying a guy would be foolish to turn down VP? Where is Huck going.

Huckster is obviously huckstering himself. He's selling himself

[Dixie Yooper]

Third party with Dan Quayle and Condi Rice.

[jmyrlefuller]

Not a chance. We don’t need two tickets of establishment republicans.

Sorry if I sound too Obamaesque, but we need change. You know what they say about politicians and diapers...

[txhurl]

McCain could only redeem himself by picking Mike Pence.

[JPJones]

This is BS. McCain will choose an Hispanic for a VP, and at the same time try to convince everyone he’s for closing the border.

[zerosix]

Those choices wouldn't be any different than the liberal McCain/Hutchinson.

McCain/Hutchinson wants to give away America; Condi wants to give away Jerusalem and Israel!

No dice for me!