At this point in the 'run for the oval
office', it is rather traditional to speculate profusely and
uselessly about whom each presumed presidential nominee will choose
for his/her vice.
Who Mitt Will NOT Choose
It is conventional wisdom that Mitt has
to connect with the Conservative base. Therefore, he will choose
appropriately for his running mate.
Not.
If he wished to endear himself to
Conservatives, he would pick Rubio, Santorum, Ryan, or even Walker.
If he wished a sharp political operator who has experience
effectively pulling the levers of Congressional power, he would
choose Newt.
If he wishes to pull a
rabbit-out-of-his-hat (this is a family website, and the previous
sentence is not the original one I had in mind), he would a-la-McCain
choose Jindal or Haley.
He will choose none of these. He
clearly has more disdain for conservatives than that for liberals.
Who Mitt Will Choose
He will pick someone who, like himself,
is a plain-vanilla moderate and amenable to ABC News/George Stephanopoulos (who, I
remind you, was Clinton's White House Chief of Staff). Therefore, I
predict that he will choose: Pawlenty, Portman, Jeb, or Christie.
No, I Am Not Happy
IMHO, Mitt is a weak-kneed panty-waist
(can I still use that phrase w/o being pejorative to someone? It is
difficult to keep track of those things these days) who will lose
rather handily to Barack Hussein Obama this fall. He needs to learn
that to win, he has to give us a reason to vote for him; posing as a
practical, cool-headed alternative is a recipe for defeat (just ask
Dole or McCain). He has to convince us that he wields Excaliber and
is on a quest to slay the Liberal, Fire-Breathing Dragon. This,
clearly, is not in Mitt's blood.
Am I Wrong?
We shall see: witness his upcoming
choice for veep.
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