If Duncan Hunter could put California in play, he would be worth his weight in gold!
Still, I would like to see J.C. Watts on the ticket. It would be nothing short of revolutionary and historic. And it would mark and end to the Libs being able to call Conservatives and Republicans "racist" and get away with it.
He can't. Have you looked at any California election results lately?
Simply because he's black? Let's leave that nonsense to the socialistic America-haters. Ours is supposed to be a color-blind movement and society.
I've always thought that, among all of the GOP Presidential ticket possibilities during every Presidential year, it's a mistake for the GOP to try to create a Presidential ticket without having either the Presidential candidate or the Vice Presidential candidate come from California with all of their electoral votes. For example, I wanted Bob Dole to pick either Sonny Bono or Pat Sajak to be his running mate in '96.
Look, I like Duncan Hunter, but Hunter couldn't put California in play anymore than Tom McClintock put California in play (yes I know, different office, I'm drawing the parallel to make a point, not to be literal in my example). Arguably, even a RINO like Arnie won only because he had the ginormous name recognition that came with being the Terminator. Practically the only GOP elected to serious state office in California have been RINOs like Arnie and Deukmajian. LA had a GOP mayor (Richard Riordan), but he was a charging RINO too.
I hate to say it, but anymore, about the highest office a real conservative Republican will win in California is that of the US House of Representatives, and that's because the state does have a minority of very conservative districts floating in a sea of West Coast liberalism. California has produced some very conservative Representatives - Hunter, Rohrabacher, Bob Dornan, and so forth. But this is because their districts, which all tended to cluster in Orange County or the San Diego area, were or are about three clicks to the right of Attila the Hun.
Upshot to all this? We don't necessarily NEED a Veep candidate to bring on extra states. Bush won with Cheney as his VP, as if we desperately needed him to win a 3-electoral point fire-engine red state!