Posted on 06/03/2008 8:06:17 AM PDT by davidosborne
ALERT: Would YOU like a personal say in who John McCain, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, should pick as his Vice Presidential running mate? Now you can -- and this isn't just some useless online poll. You get to tell the man who's actually helping McCain do the picking!
According to the latest news reports , Sen. McCain has tapped a former Reagan administration official to head his campaign's search for a vice presidential nominee.
Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander of Tennessee told The Hill newspaper that Arthur Culvahouse, who was Reagan's White House counsel from March 1987 to January 1989, would be helping McCain vet candidates and develop a list.
Culvahouse is a partner at O'Melveny & Myers and works in the law firm's Washington, DC office. Like many of McCain's campaign chiefs, he has been a long-time DC lobbyist.
McCain hosted several potential vice presidential candidates last weekend at his ranch in Sedona, AZ, including Mitt Romney, Charlie Crist, Bobby Jindal and Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman. And there's even more who could -- or should -- be on the short list...
So let's help suggest who should be the VP pick!
TAKE ACTION: There are a bunch of websites that have sprung up, with polls and surveys you can fill out to give your opinion on who should be the Republican Vice Presidential nominee. They all promise to send the results to the McCain campaign, to "influence" his pick.
We've set our site up so that you can send a message DIRECTLY to the man who is leading the VP search for John McCain, right away. We've even made it easy for you - just click to insert your favorite choice into the message, and edit it to say it all in your own words!
Make your voice heard TODAY. Please click "Go!" NOW to send a FREE message to Arthur Culvahouse, the head of the McCain campaign's search for a vice presidential running mate, and let him know who YOU think should be the VP nominee.
NOTE: Be sure to send this Alert to EVERYONE you know who wants to make THEIR voice heard on who should be the GOP Vice Presidential nominee. Thank you!
Even if McCain had Ronald Reagan himself as VP I just can't get excited about him as POTUS.... I think McCain needs to WITHDRAW from the race and allow conservatives to pick a CONSERVATIVE candidate to defeat Obama..
David
Tallahassee, Florida
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/justsayno2johnmccain/index?tab=articles
Me.
David, I love you, we think alike, would you marry me??
passing it on for comments....
Having said all this.. I don’t know what I will do come November... normally I would just “hold my nose” and vote for the “R”... but I just can’t see that happening this time.. I am sick and tired of the LIBERAL wing of the Republican Party telling us conservatives to “hold your nose and vote”
Fred Thompson or the Governor of Alaska.
Hillary Clinton, 2 peas in a pod! :-)
A better question is who should be the POTUS nominee?
I’m thinking that after the convention in Denver, at some point, some shoe will drop with Obama that will be so bad that the Dems are going to have to replace him as a candidate like they did for the New Jersey senatorial race a few years back. That person will probably be Hillary. If they do that, then we will take the cue, and we will replace our candidate with Fred Thompson or some other good conservative.
I'm thinking that McCain will choose someone who reflects the re-alignment in the GOP--meaning to the left...
HEAR HEAR !!
sw
It could matter if McCain should accidentally win the election. The VP could very well step into the presidency.
I have reservations about McCain too, but I’ll be voting R if for no other reason than to try to make sure we don’t elect someone named “Hussien” just so he can run over to Iraq and surrender. If that happens it will be a horrible day in our history.
You had a say in it. Your choice, like mine, lost. The difference is that you apparently are going to sit on your hands and send them all a message.
You might as well hold your breath until you turn blue also.
Bobby Jindahl.
Believe me, I understand your feelings about it. I feel like I have to vote for McCain, though, a I don't want to be saddled with socialized medicine for the rest of my life. I also think we'd have a better shot with McCain choosing SCOTUS nominees than we would with Obama (or Hillary).
Working to get local and state conservatives elected. I can’t and won’t vote for Mcpain, so I’m sitting out this election. This country appears to be heading toward a brick wall no matter whom is elected. It’ll either be in dribs and drabs or a headlong rush into it.
She said last night on Glenn Beck that if asked today, she would say no.
For me, the VP nominee needs to be pro-family, pro-victory, pro-border control, anti-taxes, pro-individual responsibility, telegenic, articulate, experienced in domestic and foreign policy issues, and relatively young (like, under 60). S/he needs to be able to step into the Presidency on a moments notice.
Who fits that bill? Probably no one fits it all. I could accept Romney, Thompson, Pence, Coburn, Cornyn, Kyl, Kasich, Hunter, and probably others I can’t remember right now.
I would have a hard time accepting Lindsay Graham or Charlie Crist, or Sarah Palin or Bobby Jindal. I think Palin and Jindal are potentials for down the road, though.
Simple. Thomas Sowell.
For me, the VP nominee needs to be pro-family, pro-victory, pro-border control, anti-taxes, pro-individual responsibility, telegenic, articulate, experienced in domestic and foreign policy issues, and relatively young (like, under 60). S/he needs to be able to step into the Presidency on a moments notice.
Who fits that bill? Probably no one fits it all. I could accept Romney, Thompson, Pence, Coburn, Cornyn, Kyl, Kasich, Hunter, and probably others I can’t remember right now.
I would have a hard time accepting Lindsay Graham or Charlie Crist, or Sarah Palin or Bobby Jindal. I think Palin and Jindal are potentials for down the road, though.
I think with all his faults, McCain is the best candidate to beat the democrats. I think he is going to pick Lieberman or some other democrat for VP. Maybe this guy bloomberg
I think with all his faults, McCain is the best candidate to beat the democrats. I think he is going to pick Lieberman or some other democrat for VP. Maybe this guy bloomberg
No kidding.
There are some really stupid comments on this thread. Thanks for being a voice of reason.
Come on now......lets have some fun with this. I think the Prime Minister of Israel should be VP. Then watch the fireworks roll.
Can you say... GILF?
Hey, thanks for the link! I did take advantage of it to choose my guy for VP, and I sent the link on to my husband’s father in NJ, (land of democrats).
His father has told us he and all his friends are voting Republican. They’re not happy with the dems at all.
First: Zell Miller. Alternate; Joe Lieberman.
See also, CrippleCreek’s post #7.
My choice for a VP to counter-balance the putrifying liberal-in-conservative’s clothing McCainiac would be the honorable Duncan Hunter. Unfortunately, it seems increasingly apparent that the limp-wristed liberal-lite Republican Party no longer wants a real conservative in position of authority within their squalid political inner sanctum. A pox on all their houses.
Many of my friends are liberal Hillary supporters who say they will vote McCain if Obama is the pick.
They can’t understand why I don’t like McCain.
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Duncan Hunter or the flava of the month—Pallin
ps-—i swiped my wifes’ login..so don’t blame her.
Mitt and Huckaby are just so-so..someone needs to save the Party!
Audrina Patridge, well, maybe not, but I would like to see Gov Sarah Palin or Gen David Petraeus.
Jindal.
I’m with you David!
Effeminate! Examine who he roomed with while a congressman!
My comment: If you don't care who he picks, why bother to post this thread? Go hang out on another thread and the rest of us will have discussions and pay close attention to whether a solid conservative or a RINO sellout is a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
As for me, I'd feel much more relieved if Sarah Palin is waiting in the wings to step-in at a moment's notice than say, Olympia Snowe.
I am very, very disgusted with McCain.
His immigration policy is Leftist; he nearly changed parties in 2004; he wants to repeal the tax cuts; he swallowed the Al Gore lie of Global Warming.
How did Mitt Romney lose? How did Fred Thompson lose?
Why are people screaming to have their taxes raised by Obama? He gives the masses hope...hope to tax more of your success for their failures.
“I just wish I could have had a say in who was the Presidential Nominee!”
Me, too! It was all over by the time the Ohio primary rolled around!
Who gives a big rat’s butt? Certainly not me. This nation will be going to h*ll in a handbasket for the next 4 years, possibly 8, regardless of who gets in. We survived Bubba’s reign. I suspect we’ll survive whichever idiot that gets the seat.
Indiana is already a safe state for McCain and Daniels isn’t all that popular here.
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