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DS4DUMMIES -> RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate (8/29/2008 7:23:25 AM)
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Romney was our governor and basically he didn't ruin anything or leave the kind of muddy footprints our current joke....er....Governor.... Patrick is leaving all over the place. What he has going for him as a VP pick is that McCain has no experience running anything, and Romney brings business skills to the table and the ability to counsel McCain on a whole range of "real world" economic matters/procedures/processes, etc. Being a process-oriented man he is a good balance to McCain's fiery emotional personality. He may be boring as hell, but Romney is a "go to" sort of person, something Obama is lacking on the Democratic ticket. In other words, McCain/Romney is a ying and yang sort of ticket, where Obama/Biden is a fluff/has-been duo. Neither of them has any substance and I say that as a guy who thinks Obama has a bit of potential....just not a man ready to lead anything just yet. Hey...it took balls to do what he is doing.
McCain's ULTIMATE coup would be to cross the aisle and ask Hilary aboard. Unlike Obama, McCain is strong enough to bitch-slap her if she gets too ambitious and so the fear of the Clintons running a shadow Presidency would be dispensed with. I spend a lot of time poking fun at Hilary but she's got the kind of mind that you need when you're dealing in the bigger world, plus having Bill nearby ...who has lived the job.....not matter what you think of him.....can't be so bad. Pluse George Bush Sr. thinks a lot of Bill Clinton....and George Sr. was a damned good President. Of course the chance of this happening is....zero....but fun to speculate on.
So...boring, Mormon, or not....I think Romney is a good pick. As for the media replaying all the cat calls between him and McCain.....think back to Reagan/Bush. Remember Bush's beating up Reagan in the primaries over things like "voodoo economics"?
My dark horse?....the speculation on Colin Powell is interesting. He brings a black man to the table which at least to some degree offsets Obama for those who feel "race" is an issue (though it should not be...) But much more than that, Powell is a thinking man with a hell of a mind. He has run a big chunk of the military (management experience on all levels), he has foreign policy experience, he has a conscience.....he is not a trample-the-world sort of guy, and he has integrity....and brings a balanced approach to using the military to advance US goals. I'm not sure...after the horrid stabbed-in-the-back experience he had at State that he'd want any part of being VP....but...you never know.
(What Ob could have done....that would have nailed the whole thing for him.....was at the DNC...to have had Joe Biden fall on his sword and decline the VP nod...on the basis that "I met with Sen. Obama last night and we talked to the wee hours....and I told him there are people better qualified than I to fill this slot..."....then as the crowd noise grew.....the announcement....that Hilary.......had agreed to take Biden's place.....exit stage right to thunderous applause and great media imagery.....not to mention the joy of leaving a whole bunch of talking heads speechless with dropped jaws rubbing the desk tops.......hey...I'd like Wolf Blitzer to shut up for 5 minutes....)
The best part of all this is how the media today, is literally ignoring Obama's big night last night...and devoting air time to McCain? ....lol. We really are a nation of shameless whores :)
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