Fri Apr 13, 2012, 10:47 AM

Vice President Bob McDonnell? Maybe!

Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee—look, Ron Paul could make a sweeping comeback, and Newt is still in it!—everyone's focus now shifts to who he'll pick to be his running mate.

For local political analyst Chuck Thies, the answer seems relatively simple: Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. In a column published on NBC4's website today, Thies lays out the case for a McDonnell pick: he represents a constituency with whom Romney is weak (the South), he's carefully balanced his focus on the economy and the Virginia legislature's intense obsession with controversial social issues and he's played like he doesn't want any job other than the one he has. (The folks at conservative Virginia blog Bearing Drift certainly don't disagree with Thies.)

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Vice President Bob McDonnell? Maybe! (Original post)	mahatmakanejeeves	Apr 2012	OP
In the end I think it will be Portman of Ohio.	WI_DEM	Apr 2012	#1
I agree	leftynyc	Apr 2012	#7
I don't think so	atreides1	Apr 2012	#2
No, their VP nominee has to be an evangelical-fundamentalist or they will lose their base.	AlinPA	Apr 2012	#3
Good chance that it will be a Republican Governor from a swing state.	grantcart	Apr 2012	#4
Hey Mitt, I DARE YOU! :)	polichick	Apr 2012	#5
The only problem with McDonnell (for Romney)	Proud Public Servant	Apr 2012	#6

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Fri Apr 13, 2012, 10:52 AM

WI_DEM (32,522 posts)

1. In the end I think it will be Portman of Ohio.

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Fri Apr 13, 2012, 02:11 PM

leftynyc (10,302 posts)

7. I agree

McDonnell has too high a negative profile due to the ultrasound law. I don't think they're looking to make the gender gap worse.

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Fri Apr 13, 2012, 11:10 AM

atreides1 (10,170 posts)

2. I don't think so

With the Romney campaign trying to over women...McDonnell would be the worst choice...he may have gotten the original pro-rape sonogram law toned down but it's still a sore point.

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Fri Apr 13, 2012, 11:27 AM

AlinPA (13,708 posts)

3. No, their VP nominee has to be an evangelical-fundamentalist or they will lose their base.

Brownback, Santorum, even Perry, Bachmann or Huckabee would work for them.

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Fri Apr 13, 2012, 11:33 AM

grantcart (38,739 posts)

4. Good chance that it will be a Republican Governor from a swing state.

McDonnell is a logical choice.

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Fri Apr 13, 2012, 12:06 PM

polichick (30,375 posts)

5. Hey Mitt, I DARE YOU! :)

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Fri Apr 13, 2012, 12:48 PM

Proud Public Servant (796 posts)

6. The only problem with McDonnell (for Romney)

Is that he's a Catholic. That would be a GOP ticket, in this day and age, with no Protestant on it. That seems unthinkable. But I do think he's a good choice otherwise, though he was a better one before teh vaginal ultrasound debacle; he remains teh popular governor of a swing state, and that can't hurt.

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