Posted on 07/21/2008 9:27:11 AM PDT by Reagan Man
TICKET CHOICE SEARCH
With the nomination for the Republican solidifying mightily, Sen. John McCain has asked his senior advisers to begin pulling together short lists for Vice Presidential choices. At the top of list, according to one senior adviser: Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. "There are others that need to be on that list, but you have to believe the Haley is a frontrunner," says the adviser, who knows both McCain and Barbour well.
Barbour would be one name that puts many conservatives at a bit more ease, one of the criteria McCain understands he must meet, according to another adviser: "Another would be geographic balance, and Barbour takes care of that, too."
Other names on the initial list that may have as many as 30 names on it: Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who is a national chair for McCain, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, and former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, former Rep. J.C. Watts.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Did he serve in the military during the Viet Nam war?
If not, why not?
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Haley Barbour as Vice President might be the only way I could hold my nose long enough to vote for John McPain.
That article was written in February :)
McCain/another white male = defeat in November.
How old is this article? February 2008?
I have no problems with Barbour, indeed a solid conservative and good man. BUT, he would be unfairly savaged as a “tobacco [and other] lobbyist.” It doesn’t help that some swing voters are probably anti-Southern bigots, and Barbour definitely looks like THEIR stereotype of a “good ol’ boy.” Which is their problem, but, they vote.
Especially when you consider all the phonies on FR pushing the pseudo conservative, Willard Myth Romney, to be McCain's running mate.
Picking Haley Barbour would make conservatives very satisfied.
The problem with the so-called “Conservative” VP is that they have to automatically put on hold any position on any issue that does not match the Presidents.
In McCains case, this makes the whole idea worthless.
Well?
“Did he serve in the military during the Viet Nam war?
If not, why not?”
If you don’t know, just say so. LOL
Semper Fi,
Kelly
LOL Your opinion is both juvenile and silly.
You want a phony to be VPOTUS. The liberal Myth Romney would make a good choice for Obama.
McCain needs to pick a real deal conservative and someone like Gov Haley Barbour, Gov Mark Sanford or Sen Tom Coburn would be a good fit for the GOP ticket.
I thought that was just a rhetorical question open to the forum.
I don’t know. Do you?
Gastric bypass? They have a much simpler program at Fort Benning but both of those dudes were a little too good to participate in that. The same goes for Governor Gastrics two sons, who could still benefit enormously from that program.
Ridge and Hunter are the only possible VP picks I’ve seen mentioned that were man enough to serve. Ridge is too left and Hunter brings nothing that I can see except a solid conservative philosophy, and to be honest John ain’t into that anymore.
I noticed this too.
“I don’t know. Do you?”
No, I don’t.
All I know is that he went to Ol’ Miss.
I’d consider making a stand like that if I somehow viewed Barbour as our only hope. I don’t. (It’s not “either Barbour of Mitt.”) Politics ain’t beanbag, and the kind of stand you’re talking about leads to Obama presidencies, I fear. (And I literally DO fear an Obama presidency — enough to worry about whether Barbour would help draw swing votes.)
NO to wacky Ron Paul.
Haley Barbour is my candidate for EVERYTHING!!! He’s brilliant!
Good enough.
You might be right. I like Condi Rice, but her association with Bush is a big negative. I like the Gov of Alaska. I like Romney. Romney seems like the safe choice, but I would think the VP has to get along with McCain.
Don’t know much about Barbour.
Hello ole’ friend. Come to Mississippi so you can be in the state with me and have him as a Governor.
I like Kasich. If it’ll swing Michigan,and maybe Colorado and New Mexico, Romney might make sense too...
“So what’s your point?”
No point, I would just like to know if he served and if not, why not?
gotta problem with that?
Too bad...LMAO
“McCain did and he’s still unfit for the office”
Oh really? Well I have issues with McCain but I don’t know where you come off saying he is “unfit for the office?”
Haley is my first choice. Sarah is second.
What is, that Barbour being so fat would weigh down the ticket?
You agree with me that someone can be too obese to be a credible Vice Presidential choice. Barbour probably weighs about 270, which I think is too much, but is just fine with you. Fine. Lets then say he weighs 350. 350 not enough? Okay, 450. You'd probably say that he was too obese. Is that then juvenile and silly? The only difference between you and I is the amount of obesity that precludes being on the ticket.
Oh, I thought you had some real facts to back up your claim.
“You can’t factually refute anything I said about McCain?”
Don’t have to...
you are the one who made accusations...back ‘em up or move on.
I made no accusations. I stated facts. You can’t refute them. so in the typical fashion of McCainiac thugs, you reveal your arrogance. You claim you don’t have to defend the indefensible. You move on to your delusional world of phony salvation.
Besides, we know who you want --- the liberal effeminate loser, Myth Romney.
Never happen.
Apparently, it is easy to accuse me of neoteny, or of being a Romney supporter, but not so easy to answer my question.
If Barbour's weight is not an issue, is it because his weight is below that threshold at which it would become an issue, or is it because weight is never a legitimate issue?
If Barbour was exactly the same as he is, just as conservative, etc., but weighed 375 lbs., would his weight then be an issue? Or would it be juvenile to consider at an issue even then?
I don’t answer hypothetical questions. Whether they come from liberal Democrats, or liberal Republicans like you.
Bottom line. Haley Barbour remains a good conservative and would make a fine VPOTUS.
He attended the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, but skipped the first semester of his senior year to work on Richard Nixon's 1968 election campaign. He never earned a bachelor's degree. At the age of twenty-two, he ran the 1970 census for the state of Mississippi. He enrolled at the University of Mississippi Law School, receiving a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1972. Subsequently he joined his father's law firm in Yazoo City ...So, he probably had this history:
1. Was too young to be drafted prior to college
2. Presumably had college deferral during college
but
What was going on between the 1968 (... I doubt there was a "deferral for working on a prez campaign") and his enrollment in law school (which created another deferment?), presumably in 1969 (three years before his graduation in '72)?
I'm not casting aspersions on Barbour, not at all, but I am curious about what his draft status was.
“I stated facts?”
what facts?
“because he is a lying?” what lies?
“disloyal? “ what disloyalty?
“backstabbing?” what “backstabbing?”
“self righteous?”
“sanctimonious fool?”
“who lives in a delusional world of phony senate collegiality?”
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...
nothing but accusations and not one specific fact to back up it up any of them. Run along and bother someone else with your blathering, ‘cause that “dog won’t hunt ‘round here.” LOL
First, I am not any liberal Republican, so don't give me that swill. Just as I proved in another thread (and I will spam this thread with it if you say any more), Romney's support came from Very Conservative voters, and so too with this very conservative Freeper.
Second, the question isn't hypothetical, its direct. And since you are so free with the personal attacks, supposedly forbidden at FR, I don't see how you are too punctilious to answer a simple and direct question relevant to the thread's topic, and your posts above.
Does a candidate's relative obesity have any bearing on how attractive he is as a VPOTUS candidate?
Down at the end of the WikiPedia Bio is a blurb that Sen Fred Thompson ‘got Barbour’ for campaign fund raising irregularities...That will probably hurt his chances....
especially after the Keating Five gets revived...
You whine just like a liberal too.
Crybaby! LOL
Name calling, but no question answering. Too tough a question for you?
Liberals always demand answers to absurd questions. When they don’t get their way they make threats. I’d call that whining. I gave you the rope. You hung yourself.
Thanks for playing.
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