I think Romney will choose a woman for his VP pick and I have a hunch

[Bandit]

it will be Nikki Haley.. She doesn't seem nearly as stupid as Sarah Palin and every bit as pretty. Being Pretty means more to Republicans than either competence or intelligence..IMO

[flamingdem]

1. But her popularity is supposedly en le toillette currently

so maybe not, plus too much color for the fundies

[arcane1]

2. Wasn't she in some adultery scandal recently?

Or am I confusing her with someone else?

[jberryhill]

8. She survived that to be elected governor in the first place

Although the outgoing governor was Mr. Appalachian Trail.

[GoCubsGo]

18. Yes, but that's just the tip of the ice berg.

Here's a recall petition to fill you in on some of it: http://recallsc.com/

[rfranklin]

3. She's a dot head! (to use Freeper terminology)

She was raised as a Sikh and now professes to be a Christian. Do you think that Republican voters will be able to overlook that?

[WCGreen]

9. It's inclusive if you are a republcan

but sympathy for terrorists if you are a democrat////

[JDPriestly]

23. A Mormon and an ex-Sikh on the Republican ticket? Running together in the South?

That should be interesting. But the human mind is capable of near-infinite rationalization. Nothing is impossible.

[uponit7771]

50. +1

[hamsterjill]

4. Oh, heck yeah being pretty is more important than competence or intelligence!

To the Republicans. Just look at Palin. It was obvious that she was chosen with her looks in mind because she darn sure didn't (and doesn't) have any competence or intelligence!!!

Somehow, though, I don't think they will choose a woman as the VP pick.

[NightTemplar]

5. clever guess... but

It won't be someone like her.

Romney needs to shore up the right of his party who hates him. He NEEDS a Rubio, Ryan, DeMint, Sessions type VP nominee.

[snooper2]

10. or a Bachmann

[Motown_Johnny]

22. she is a TPer

she would help bring them to him

[Yupster]

42. My guess is Susanna Martinez

Governor of New Mexico. Pretty good approval ratings.

[pampango]

48. Might help Romney with Hispanics. He needs to do better than McCain with them to have a chance. n/t

[rhett o rick]

6. Republicons do not like uppity smart women. They like them pretty

and ignorant, ala Palin and BAckmann and what's her name on the View, and i dont mean Whoopy.

[LiberalAndProud]

7. While facing a recall?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002142344

I guess anything could happen, but I think the Conservative party is looking to return to all white, all male conservative values. They yearn to return to more comfortable days. JMO

[GoCubsGo]

14. Yep, and if Romney did that, he can kiss South Carolina good-bye.

Most people here can't stand her, and that includes a fat chunk of the people who voted for her. He'll have a difficult enough time here as it is. I saw a poll a few weeks ago that has President Obama ahead of Romney in this state. Add our extremely unpopular governor to the ticket, and enough repugs will stay home.

[Are_grits_groceries]

17. You got that right.

Haley can appear to be quite the catch. She's attractive, and she can make a decent speech. However, she doesn't listen to anybody but herself. She is the Queen Bee.

Anybody who can make 98% of the people in SC mad has really accomplished the impossible. She has done so many unnecessary and stupid things that she has managed to step on every faction in the state.

She is probably helping Romney in hopes that he will win the whole thing and give her a job in DC. She's having trouble staying one step ahead of the pitchforks. Then we would get Lt.Governor Ken Ard who is under investigation for a brazillions ethics violations.

[Drunken Irishman]

44. Right. Haley's approval rating in SC is (as far as the most recent I could find) just 35%...

Obama has a higher approval rating in the state there than Haley.

She's toxic.

[JoePhilly]

11. Naaa ... we need to look for a lower profile Tea Party magnet.

mCain went with Palin because she could get the crazy base, and because no one actually knew what a whack job she was.

Romney will do the same ... but I think this is not the "year of the woman" for the GOP. Its going to be a white southern, tea party friendly guy with no real history ... an other pander selection.

I don't think that it works for the party of no ideas, but its all they have left.

[oh08dem]

12. Susana Martinez?

A Hispanic female governor in a swing state that's been trending blue (in presidential elections anyway).

[Orangepeel]

27. That's an interesting guess

Martinez has to be on Romney's handler's shortlist. But they will pick someone who is theoretically able to placate the conservative base. I don't know if she can do that.

[Rowdyboy]

41. Bingo-we have a winner!

Susana Martinez would make Obama's job much harder

[DCBob]

43. Wow, that would cover a multitude of sins..

She could be it!

[Brother Buzz]

13. But, but, Nikki Haley is hated by everybody

She has alienated herself from a ALL factions of the GOP, and would be the proverbial albatross hung around Romney's neck. She's perfect!

[GoCubsGo]

21. Yep. President Obama's approval rating is 10 pts. higher than hers here.

Her sucking up to Romney hasn't helped her, either.

[MilesColtrane]

15. While she meets the Constitutional requirement, she's a little youngish to be Veep.

She'd turn forty one on inauguration day next year.

We've only had three VPs that age or younger, Nixon, Quayle, and Breckinridge...not stellar company.

[kskiska]

28. According to the Birthers, she's not eligible

Both her parents were born in India. This is a picture of her relatives who came to her inauguration.

[MilesColtrane]

37. OMG...Sikh turbans!

Those guys are obviously Al Qaeda!

She's part of a Hindu Muslim sleeper cell!

[Wistful Vista]

16. He could even tap Mary Fallin, the gov of Oklahoma. She's not all that purty but the teabaggers

and the fundies love her...
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[NYC Liberal]

39. She's always reminded me of Martha Logan from 24

[The Genealogist]

19. I am going to guess he would choose a popular purple or blue state conservative

I am also going to guess it would be a member of some minority that the RW base can stomach. Rubio, perhaps. Rubio could draw in more hispanic voters, and could perhaps draw purple Florida back into the red column. He seems generally to be able to keep his nose clean, which helps a lot.

[JDPriestly]

24. No, Romney is the candidate that the Republicans think would appeal to

independents and do OK in blue states. (They are wrong.)

So, Romney has to pick a conspicuously conservative running mate. Could be a woman, but remember the running mate has to be deemed capable of handling the president's job if necessary.

[onethatcares]

29. no, no, no, nononono,

rubio got a problem with lying about when and why his parents actually came to America. Seems he fluffed the resume' a bit and the Cuban coalition doesn't take kindly to that. In fact, since that became news a little while ago marco has gone absent from the news.

I wonder why?

[The Genealogist]

30. The RWers seem to have interesting rules about these "where people were born" rules

Oily Tater or whatever her name is has made it her mission in life to get Obama off ballots all over the country, first because he allegedly wasn't born in the US. When that backfired completely, they decided to go with the angle that Obama's father wasn't born here, and are proceding as before, but using Plan B. But Mitt's father was born in Mexico, and I have heard exactly NOTHING from the RWers about this. Why should it then matter for Rubio? This whole issue the RW has concocted only applies to Democrats. I don't see why this issue with Rubio should hurt them.

[sad sally]

20. Naw, it'll be another conservative man n/t

[GoCubsGo]

47. Yep. And, a minority, most likely.

They won't pick a woman because they know that Hillary and Joe Biden can just switch places. There is no woman in the GOP with Hillary's creds, and none have even half the respect of the public that Hillary has. She is one of the most-admired women in the country according to recent polls.

[Raine]

25. I don't agree, Palin

took that idea off the table for a long time.

[DCBob]

26. Yes, I think it will be woman also..

Could be Haley but it might be someone else like Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Carly Fiorina or Meg Whitman or gasp.... Lynn Cheney!!

[LiberalAndProud]

31. If they asked me

(which they won't) I would advise them to find a "bootstraps" kind of guy. The disconnect with Romney is that he has a very unpleasant patina of entitled rich kid. That is his Achilles heel. He needs something to bridge the far distance between himself and the working class. The silver spoon that hangs around his neck is not attractive, leave alone his perceived "liberal" background. (I almost choked while typing that.) I don't have a name in mind, but gender won't make a sliver of difference for his chances in the general. I think he will necessarily not make a minority choice. He is having too much difficulty reaching the traditional (read racist) conservative base as is.

[UTUSN]

32. Don't SAY it, don't SAY it!1 That said, do Mormons value wimmin?!1 n/t

[MADem]

33. Who the hell is she?

I had a hint who Palin was, and that was McCain's worst possible choice (or best, if he really didn't want to win--so easy to blame shit on her...they knew she was a train wreck and they picked her anyway).

I see him picking someone who can raise money, who is an attack dog capable of deflecting, changing the story, and ripping opponents a new asshole, who is wired into the national GOP cesspool and has a full roladex of contacts, and who can bring a pile of influence to the table.

He picked a female LT Governor, and she was the stupidest, most plastic, most passive, hair tossing idiot on two feet. She couldn't put two sentences together and she could disappear if she was the only person in the room. Genuinely HORRIBLE.

He doesn't want any woman to get more attention than he might. He's a bit of a stage pig that way.

[RB TexLa]

34. If there is not a male WASP on the ticket the Tea Party people will have

a well funded third party candidate.

[GoCubsGo]

46. Actually, Haley was a Tea Party darling until recently.

Sarah Palin endorsed her, so they voted for her. That's how we got stuck with this turd. In fact, they paraded her around as "proof" that they don't really hate women and ethnic minorities. They're only turning on her because she is proving to be utterly corrupt and stupid.

[Skip Intro]

35. I've been saying that for some time now.

She's very unpopular here, but I think her regional appeal (no that isn't sexist) will hold great value for Romney if he is the nom.

However, once on the national stage, I think she'll turn off voters in quick fashion, just has she has here. Last poll I was aware of here in SC had her approval at thirty-something. In SC! She's been sued by her own party here and had to backtrack on a new email-deletion policy where her admin began deleting emails between her and her staff on state business.

But yeah, I think she's on the short-list for Romney. Have for a while.

[HuckleB]

36. Pretty?

Say what?

[Ilsa]

38. Her name is Nimrata. I don't think

The GOP is going to go for that after making fun of the President's name.

[downwardly_mobile]

40. Wow. Googled her up. BOTH her parents were Sikhs from India!

I did not know that, and never would have guessed it by looking at her.

[GoCubsGo]

45. LA Governor "Bobby" Jindal's real name is "Piyush".

They put him out as their up-and-coming "superstar", by having him give the GOP rebuttal to the President's first State of the Union address, AND after having made fun of the President's name for months on end. It's only bad when Democrats have unusual names.

[WI_DEM]

49. Condi Rice maybe?