An interesting idea for McCain's VP pick...

[jmowreader]

How about Adrian Cronauer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Cronauer

He's a lifelong Republican. He's well-known, although he's going to have to spend the first three months of a possible McCain presidency explaining he did NOT get kicked out of the Air Force because his only friend in Vietnam was a VC sapper. He's well spoken. He's a lawyer, he hates the Fairness Doctrine and he's never needed to go to jail so far as we know.

[hlthe2b]

1. Well, you just destroyed a long-held notion...

How the hell could Cronauer be a lifelong Republican? Obviously, he has little in common with his protrayal...

[jmowreader]

5. He calls himself a "lifelong Republican"

He was chairman of Veterans for Dole and vice-chair of Veterans for Bush/Cheney.

I've read some about Cronauer's actual AFRS radio days. Parts of the movie were true: the man WAS transferred to Vietnam from Greece, and he DID change the format from Old People Music to American Top 40. When he did it, the brass basically took a hands-off approach: he's within regs and the troops like it, let him go. That wouldn't have been a funny movie, though. (Then again, a lot of the movie they DID make wasn't funny--if they would have cut out the English-teacher shit and just had him doing radio stuff, it would have been a far superior movie.)

[Sherman A1]

2. My question would be

is there any interest at all in McCain's VP pick...

I personally could care less who he selects.

[frog92969]

3. I'm shocked that people haven't figured it out yet...

it's gonna be cheney.

[Carrieyazel]

4. Sarah Palin would be an outside the box pick, and maybe the only

one who could help McCain. We'll soon see.

[saltpoint]

8. Palin likely would help McCain. But she just had a baby in I think April

diagnosed with Down Syndrome, so I'm wondering if the family values crowd would cotton to her up and leaving it for the campaign trail.

Plus, she must be able to read the polls. McCain's ship is taking water and starting to gurgle its way downward into the salty brine.

[jmowreader]

9. Sarah Palin would be a VERY outside-the-box pick...

Palin's problem, in the eyes of the GOP, is she's more popular among the Democrats in Alaska than she is among the Republicans. Add the reaction of the "a woman's place is in the home" troglodytes who comprise a large percentage of McCain's base, and I think you can see McCain won't pick Palin.

Also, as far as we know she's never committed any major felonies, which seems to be a requirement if you want to go far in the GOP.

Now...if you EXPECT McCain to die in March 2009 from all the stress inherent in the presidency, Palin might be a good choice. But that's morbid--McCain should last at least through June.

[onenote]

6. he's not picking a 70 year old as his running mate. You can take that to the bank.

[saltpoint]

7. McCain meets with his staffers this past week. By now they must

have gotten a pretty good sense of how things are going for them, and how things are going for Obama.

Their internal polling sits heavily upon them. It shows an electoral college landslide for the Democrats.

The numbers now clearly favor Obama. This is left unsaid in the meeting, as they are not reversible on any attributes of McCain's candidacy, owed in large part to McCain himself being such a blockhead.

McCain half-listens to the discussion. He's munching on a large plate of sprinkled donuts.

This meeting is on the tense side, since everyone there knows that McCain has an explosive temper. No one wants to say outloud what is obvious -- that every time McCain opens his mouth, he makes less sense than the time before. That appearing on the news talk shows was his milieu and that beyond that, he's totally out of his league.

McCain's staffers want him to choose Romney because their jobs would be safer and the paychecks steadier with Romney on board. Romney is a slobbering weasel, but he's flush with dough. If McCain picks Pawlenty, they know they'll be doing the bake sale circuit in Fresno.

"Bake sales? Say, I could help with those," Cindy chimes in. "I have gobs of recipes."

"Shut up, Cindy," McCain tells her through a mouthful of donut chew.

So the meeting ends with Obama's poll numbers on the rise and McCain's dropping steadily. The media pretends that it's a real close race but the internal polling indicates otherwise. Staffers wonder if they should very quietly send out resumes and get off the boat before it's too late.