Posted on 02/17/2008 9:00:09 PM PST by CreativePerspective
As Washington begins one of its favourite guessing games, the Arizona senator has refused to divulge any names. But aides have admitted that Tom Pawlenty's will be near the top of the shortlist.
Aged 47, the Minnesota governor will provide a youthful contrast to the 71-year-old war veteran, and is only a year older than Barack Obama, the Illinois senator who is the narrow Democrat favourite.
Other names in the mix include South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Florida Governor Charlie Crist, whose support for Mr McCain helped secure early primary victories in their respective states.
With the Democrats set to field the first female or black White House nominee, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has emerged as a possibility, along with Bobby Jindal, who last year became the first Asian American to win a governorship, in Louisiana.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Technically, India is in Asia.
This is a perfect example of how stupid the RNC is to leak this stuff so early.
<pWho gives a rats at this point?
Or Felipe Calderón.
They are stuck with a rotten candidate & they know it...so they'll try running the VP ticket in hopes it will save their candidate for president.
That’s funny, because this morning I read an article where McCain said he hadn’t really been thinking about VP yet.
McCain said until he had the nomination, he wouldn’t be doing it.
So McCain/McCain? Or maybe the guy who’s asleep.
Your link curiously left out Dr. Keyes even though he was a presidential candidate. I know McCain would never choose him, but he is more prominent than several other that were mentioned. He did lose against Obama in Illinois, and did not have a large following in this primary. He however knows Obama’s tactics very well, is an African American, would balance the ticket and is far enough right that nobody in the base would question his conservatism.
McCain will have to appoint someone “truly” conservative to win the base back.
It will be McCain/Giuliani.
>>McCain said until he had the nomination, he wouldn’t be doing it.<<
Well then this could be good for Republicans. With Huckabee still in the race and speculation about the VP slot that keeps Repubs in the news when otherwise all the focus might be on the dog fight in the Dem race.
>>It will be McCain/Giuliani.<<
Maybe this is wishful thinking....
But i think Guiliani is too damaged.
On one of the Sunday Talking Head shows McCain said he wasn’t yet thinking about that, when his mind veers in that direction, he goes on to othe thoughts. It’s way too early to make a choice, even tho a ‘short list’ has to be considered that the individuals excrutiatingly vetted.
Pawlenty is not a bad choice, at least for the short list. He’s very popular in MN, a formerly totally blue state that’s turning purple, and where Norm Coleman will be in a hotly contested Senate seat. Would be nice to see the GOP carry Minnesota. And he does have to choose a younger running mate with solid conservative credentials.
He's running for Vice President? Great!
Oh.
Bobby Jindal’s parents are Punjabi Indian immigrants.
“Technically, India is in Asia.”
Last I checked Jindal was making the distinction.
He wanted it to be Kerry/McCain, so why not McCain/Kerry?
“On one of the Sunday Talking Head shows McCain said he wasn’t yet thinking about that, when his mind veers in that direction...”
You never know what the voices are telling him to do.
What does it matter. McCain’s not their for his political instincts, he’s the presumptive nominee because he’s made a career screwing the base and gaining media praise.
Oh and by the way, conservativism is not “fluid”, it is based on the Constitution of the United States of America. It is rock solid.
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