Our party keeps picking candidates who can't win by a

[mac2]

large majority. If a Presidential primary winner picks a non-majority religious, female, etc. for VP then they will lose. People see it as a "nice thing to do for affirmative action" but not a leader with real goals.

[gateley]

1. I agree.

Regardless of who WE'D like to see in the VP slot, I've been saying that we need a white guy strategically. We have to remember whose votes we need to court:

[rodeodance]

3. "white guy"---gee now its OK to talk of a demographic category??

[gateley]

4. It is for me. nt

[mac2]

7. The party acts like they never heard of a Focus Group to

see what voters think about candidates. Polls won't do it since the questions can sometimes lead to false answers.

[cloudbase]

2. We tried that

Sanchez-Kirk "dream team" stuff here in Texas back in 2002 and it didn't get us very far.

[Beregond2]

5. Yes,

we've done so well with white male candidates recently. Let's keep-up THAT winning strategy.

[AtomicKitten]

6. Obama's new voters will make this a landslide.

[Alexander]

8. Translation: Only white males need apply for the presidency.

:puke:

[tekisui]

9. What the fuck are you talking about "affirmative action"???