Posted on 07/21/2008 4:25:25 PM PDT by maccaca
MITT MATCH While Mitt Romney's set of paid PR minions are busy pushing out Mitt for Vice President spin, McCain campaign insiders say that while it's true they have polled Romney on the bottom of the ticket, the data confirms that such a move would be a political disaster for the party. "Mitt tanks the ticket," says a McCain insider. "We lose fiscal conservatives. We lose social conservatives. We lose Catholics. We lose evangelicals. All the groups were spending time and money on bringing into the camp would be lost. He just doesn't help us enough to do something like this, as much as Mitt might think we should. He doesn't even win us Massachusetts."
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Slick Willard the Liberal harms the GOP ticket, period.
Heres a tip for McCain:
Step aside and let a conservative win before you give us 8 years of Obama.
Too bad. He’s a great attack dog. Well spoken, intellegent.
Bump, bump, bump that to the top. Mitt is a liability.
It’s hard to believe that anything could harm the ticket further, but Romney is the one for that job.
What other young, fiscally conservative VP candidates are there?
I’m still hoping for Gov Palin. She would be great. And having a woman would help McCain with single woman, walmart moms and disgruntled hillraisers
This is one of scariest elections in history. The fact that a democrat with zero experience, socialist ties, racist speech etc could considered as POTUS shows the stupidity of masses.
Remember a vote for McCain is a vote against Obama!
Could just be a “McCain insider” who’s trying to sabotage the potential pick, although I do acknowledge that some folks seem to have a religious problem with Romney that seems to supercede all his good points.
Apparently Jindal is high up- more at the link
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/07/mccain_to_meet_with_jindal.html
McCain To Meet With Jindal
John McCain will huddle with vice presidential aspirant Bobby Jindal during a trip to New Orleans later this week, sources close to the campaign confirm to The Fix.
McCain’s trip to Louisiana on Wednesday was the cause of much head scratching in the political world as it was not in keeping with a week of planned stops in battleground states.
But, the meeting with Jindal, who has been the state’s governor since 2007, suggests that McCain himself is deeply engaged in the process of picking his second-in-command and that the youthful Jindal is under serious consideration.
(Worth noting: Conservative columnist Bob Novak is reporting — and Matt Drudge is touting — that McCain will make his vice presidential pick known by the end of this week.)
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Since when do 'conservatives' start to think that entitlement to a party nomination is good? They couldn't get behind one candidate to defeat McCain and now try to blackmail the McCain candidacy with such demand? I usually think only liberals think about entitlements...
Sara is a bigger RINO than McLAme.
And she seems to be in trouble for canning the head of the State troopers over not firing her EX brother in law.
Pretty face - yes. Same old Liberal politics - yea again....
You are so right. It would be the biggest veep boost and slam-dunk in the history of politics, IMO.
I saw Mitch in the title and thought maybe they were referring to Mitch Daniels for VP.
Flip Romney would be a disaster. It’s not as bad as picking Lieberman, Graham or Bloomberg...but it ain’t good.
Pick Sarah Palin.
Heh...they haven’t even started yet. Soon enough, we’ll all be ‘anti-Mormon bigots’ again.
The only thing worse than Slick Willard are his paid sycophants and their childish, nonsense strawman arguments.
It is the name at the top of the ticket that sinks the ticket. I have a better chance of being elected than that old wanker.
Baloney. McCain is the worst guy we could possibly have chosen.
If we have found ourselves forced to vote for the guy, its because the Dem he’s up against is so bad. The only reason I’m voting for him is to give Petraeus a chance to finish the job. As long as the VP is of a mind to back Petraeus as well, it doesn’t matter who he is.
It would be hard for McCain to find someone worse than himself to balance out this ticket. To say that picking “x” will tank the ticket is to misunderstand McCain’s appeal. He doesn’t have any. Petraeus is his only appeal. Not Romney, not Huck, not Lieberman himself can subtract from McCain, when I’m not even voting for McCain.
Unless McCain chooses Obama to be his running mate, it isn’t going to make any difference. He’s all we’ve got and he knows it.
The idea of anyone “losing” conservatives or evangelicals for Juan is a laugher.
Ya, but if there’s anyone that can do it, Flippin’ Mitt is the one.
Bingo. The fact that McCain can’t seem to get above 42% in a poll should tell people something. He loses as many conservatives as he gains “moderates.”
“Y’ALLL, I CANNOT TAKE THIS MYTH FOR VP JIHAD BY HIS PAID HACKS ANYMORE..... “
Could you work a bit more hyperbole into this sentence for me? I’m really wanting you to dig deep on this one.
Damn straight. You’d think the paid agents would realize by now they are HARMING their boss with all the crap they’ve been causing on websites like FR and the endless flamewars they spawn. Intelligent people know Slick Willard is a liberal, his record is all there to see. His mouth and campaign schtick doesn’t match the record.
Republicans have clearly jumped the shark. Nominating McCain who’s centrist at best...touting names like an inexperienced Palin because she’s a woman, and an inexperienced Jindal because he’s a minority. Sounds like things the Democrats do. Both Palin and Jindal have exhibited RINO tendencies in the limited time they have been in office. I don’t see exactly how touting inexperienced VP candidates helps a McCain who is dogged by ageism...and how it helps them claim Obama lacks experience. 2008 is turning out to be one big cluster **** for the Republicans.
Sigh- I know. It’s a mess, isn’t it? I only have a few picks I hope he does NOT choose- my governor, Crist, Huckabee and Kaisich. Other than that- I almost don’t care.
Sickening.
Not surprising. All the Romney spin notwithstanding, the fact remains that Romney lost the GOP primary despite having radically outspent all the other candidates. The polls during the primary showed that he had some of the highest unfavorability ratings of any candidate in either party. Why people persist in pushing this guy as VP and for 2012, I don’t know.
Agree on Gov. Palin.
I watched some of McCain’s speech to Detroit autoworkers on CSPAN last night. It was barely tolerable until he got to global warming and then I couldn’t take any more.
Today we were heading back to NH from Maine and we stopped at the Kennebunk rest area on the turnpike. We parked beside the “Straight Talk Express.” It was like looking at a ghost ship. When we came out it was gone.
It’s not just a religious problem — I’m a small-government conservative, and I oppose Romney because he’s a big government republican.
Black mail? No, just pointing out the iceberg in the water. A 72 year old fart running for his first term, thats an ideal situation.
McCain is doing good. He hasn't fallen of a stage yet. He is keeping his day job so he can write the amnesty bill for Obama. He can also save us from global warming. He's great, don't get me wrong.
I like and respect Mitt, but if this is true then McCain can’t pick him.
Jindal says he’s not the one, and Palin seems unlikely. McCain has to be seen as the safe choice, and I don’t think an unconventional pick helps.
Well, I’m here to tell you there are a lot of people, my wife included, who would ONLY vote for McCain if Mitt was his veep. But believe what you want. McCain is heading for a massive defeat.
Ditto! She seems to be a very attractive choice and smart too.
She would have to get McCain to go along with drilling for oil in Anwar. This would also provide an added plus when they feature the drilling in Anwar as a help to their economy with jobs as well as oil revenues. It may importantly also help turn around the Senate race in Alaska for the good guys. Even if the Dem claims to want drilling in Anwar also it must be pointed out that Harry Reid won't let him go along with it because Reid hates oil.
Fred would be the best. He’s a good debater, has served in Congress, has worked in the private sector, has name and face recognition and has a nice family. A “values” kind of guy.
Your summary of other vp-nomination alternatives is masterful, but my thought is: Romney offers too much future potential to Conservatism to go down to defeat with RINO loser John McCain.
Your wife wouldn’t consider new blood as VP — e.g., Sanford, Rounds or Steele? It seems to me that we need to choose someone new whom everyone can unite around. Nominating a VP that couldn’t unite the party as a primary candidate seems foolish to me (and that includes my favored primary candidates).
Add another to my list of "Posts I Never Dreamed I Would Read on FR"
You must not see me around much...I post that every day. ;)
Anyone who would ONLY vote for McCain if Myth were the veep is woefully uninformed on Mr. Romney’s past.
My instinct tells me these three pushed him over the top:
1. Democrats crossover, intentional sabotage.
2. Senior citizens rewarding one of their own, like Florida.
3. Name recognition, always on MSM TV stabbing Republicans in the back, years of self aggrandizing sanctimonious posturing paid off.
You live in the state that set this disaster in motion, so I am sincerely curious about your opinions.
I wonder what the Flip Romney, Kool Aid-drinking sycophants will have to say about this? Bet they come unleashed.
You said: I have a better chance of being elected than that old wanker.
As someone who served over twenty years in military service I take extreme offense at your statement. Disdain his politics all you want, but DO NOT ever disrespect the man.
“intellegent.”
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Yep Romney is that....
It could be becasue Romney got the conservative vote in the primaries. You know, the ones McCain can't seem to nail down.
GFYS
Don’t trust anybody from the McCain camp who pretends they actually have brought in conservatives who they would “lose”.
Especially one who is stupid enough to think that “winning Massachusetts” was a goal.
If you were picking Romney, it would be to win MICHIGAN, not Massachusetts.
Mitt held the evangelical vote better than Fred Thompson did.
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