Putting Slick Willard on the ticket will force McCain to have to shore up areas (especially in the South) he wouldn’t have to bother with otherwise. It’s a boneheaded move. I know several people who will NOT vote for the GOP ticket if that untrustworthy, flipflopping RINO liberal phony is on it, period.
Well then they will not vote for McCain no matter what if they hate RINOs, so I guess it doesn’t matter who the VP candidate is.
McCain is the real problem with the Republican ticket. People know he’s been as much a Dem. as a Republican. He cedes some of the strongest issues by being little different from Dems. on immigration and even drilling. All he’s conceded on drilling is offshore IF the states agree. I’m sure his $5,000 credit for electric cars will electrify all those fiscal conservatives, evangelicals, etc.
No one is naming any really exciting VP choices. Palin and Jindal need to do the jobs the were elected for before they jump to a national ticket. Pawlenty is very blah. A few I’ve scarcely hear of. Romney is the cream of the possibilities and would be the best campaigner, in the south and elsewhere.
McCain’s leftist positions will cost the ticket more conservative votes than Romney would. Once evangelicals well learn how radical Obama’s positions on abortion and other issues are, they will be very content to vote for a ticket with a Mormon.
Never has a year provided us more evidence that these months out polls are almost meaningless.