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Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 4:32:31 PM

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Rumors say that McCain has picked former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney as his VP running mate and will announce it Friday at 11am at a rally in Ohio.

Rumors are fueled by reports of a large uptick in Secret Service involvement in Romney's security detail within the past few days.

Romney would likely place a reliably blue-state of Michigan in play.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 4:40:39 PM

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I heard that on the radio today too.
I think that would be an excellent pick.
Romney is a self made millionaire and Harvard educated businessman.
Plus he doesn't drink, smoke, do drugs, or even drink coffee so it'd be awful hard to dig up any dirt on him.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 4:44:13 PM

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DENVER - Republican presidential candidate John McCain decided on a running mate early Thursday, and one top prospect, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, abruptly canceled numerous public appearances.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 4:45:57 PM

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I agree that Romney would be a great pick.

He's a successful business man.

He has good executive experience in the private sector as well as in government.

He will go a long way towards calming the more conservative base that don't care much for McCain.

He is well spoken and will easily make Biden look like a fool in the upcoming VP debate.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 4:55:46 PM

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I heard it was going to be Wilford Brimley.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 4:56:42 PM

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My money is on Gov. Pawlenty.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 4:59:04 PM

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Geeze, what a boring life! He needs to get out more often.

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Plus he doesn't drink, smoke, do drugs, or even drink coffee so it'd be awful hard to dig up any dirt on him.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 6:39:30 PM

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Pawlenty is such a poor choice, I can't believe he's making it. That may be the problem. McCain needs to take control of his own campaign if he's going to have a chance. Happened to Bob Dole too. They didn't let Bob be Bob.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 6:41:39 PM

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Pawlenty is a great pick, the first rule of picking a running mate is do no harm. Pawlenty has been loyal to him, and the Gov of a traditionally blue state. So it is the safe pick, at least in my eyes, I would love to see one of the names I have thrown around in the last few days.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 6:58:12 PM

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My money is on Gov. Pawlenty.

Gov.who?

Is the strategy to pick someone that no one knows about?

Someone without a past to hammer?

It may work.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 7:01:35 PM

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My money is on Gov. Pawlenty.

I think this is the second time we've ever agreed.

Gov.who?

Is the strategy to pick someone that no one knows about?

Someone without a past to hammer?

It might work?

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 7:03:04 PM

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Yes ,man with horse.

Let`s shoot for more.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 7:12:52 PM

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If it's Romney, expect a LOT of stuff on Mormonism to come out. It'd one loony religion. Plus, the JFK concerns about a Catholic being responsive to the Pope are NOTHING compared to the hold the LDS prophet holds over Mormons.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 7:31:33 PM

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Romney? No way.

The way McCain hammered Romney will present a lot of vid clips for the dems to use,the way Hill`s clips will be used on Obama.

I think there`s to much bad blood there.Plus Romney, like Bush,is all hat and no cowboy.

Go Joe Lieberman!!

Sen. McRight-winger needs a bi-partisan gesture to balance him out.

Plus Joe-mentum comes complete with auto-correct,which comes in handy during those pesky senior moments.

Go Joe !!!

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/28/2008 7:55:58 PM

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Pawlenty is a great pick, the first rule of picking a running mate is do no harm. Pawlenty has been loyal to him, and the Gov of a traditionally blue state. So it is the safe pick, at least in my eyes, I would love to see one of the names I have thrown around in the last few days.

At a bare minimum, the running mate should do no harm. The way this electoral season is shaping up, the bare minimum is not going to cut it. Heck, Pawlenty may not even be able to deliver Minnesota.

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/29/2008 6:20:44 AM

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Pawlenty indicates he's not McCain's veep choice

John McCain kept his vice presidential pick a closely guarded secret hours before the high-stakes announcement Friday as a top prospect, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, seemed to scratch his name from the list.

"I'm not going to be there. I plan to be at the state fair. You can draw your conclusion from that," Pawlenty said on his weekly call-in radio show on WCCO-AM in Minneapolis. He also called it "a fair assumption" that he will not be McCain's running mate. Associates close to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney were saying the same thing, telling The Associated Press that the former presidential candidate had not been offered the job by McCain.

As the political community turned desperate for any clues, speculation moved toward several darkhorse candidates including Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the so-called "hockey mom" credited with reforms of her out-of-the-way state.

A Gulfstream IV from Anchorage, Alaska, flew into Middletown Regional Airport in Butler County near Cincinnati about 10:15 p.m. Thursday, said Rich Bevis, airport manager. He said several people came off the plane, including a woman and two teens, but there was no confirmation of who was aboard.
"They were pretty much hustled off. They came right down the ramp, jumped in some vans here and off they went," Bevis said. "It was all hush, hush."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_veepstakes_32&printer=1;_ylt=AuxQ3hq0PcB5_rdqF0tg855h24cA

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/29/2008 6:45:16 AM

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Romney is a self made millionaire and Harvard educated businessman.

First of all, it won't be Romney (latest news). Secondly... I love how suddenly, a Harvard education is a bonus point for you rofl!

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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/29/2008 6:55:51 AM

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I heard that on the radio today too.
I think that would be an excellent pick.
Romney is a self made millionaire and Harvard educated businessman.
Plus he doesn't drink, smoke, do drugs, or even drink coffee so it'd be awful hard to dig up any dirt on him.

That won't slow them down a bit, if they can't find any dirt on the man, they will just make some up. And if that doesn't work, they will bitch about Bush some more, they seem to enjoy that.

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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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RE: Rumors suggest McCain has picked his running mate - 8/29/2008 7:26:14 AM

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McCain is strong enough to bitch-slap her if she gets too ambitious

Geesh... I hope you meant to be funny, even though the humour is lost on me

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