Who will McCain pick as his VP? If he goes with Colin Powell or a women, will that hurt the Dems?

[RBInMaine]

[FSogol]

1. Colin Powell is completely discredited. What woman?

Rice? That will just emphasis McSame's similarities to all the Bush failures. What other woman, Libby Dole? That'll be a laugh.

[grantcart]

8. She is very good on camera -very smart

if McCain picks her we could have a problem




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[hokies4ever]

14. No way Carly Fiorina gets picked

I still remember all of the bad publicity she got over her departure as CEO from HP. It'll be a perfect line of attack for the Dems linking Carly to an invasion of privacy, and therefore a continuation of Bush's abuse of civil liberties on the American people.

[grantcart]

17. its all inside politics for a very small group - hardly any Americans are aware of it

Frankly McCain and his wife have much more substantive ethical problems.

She is going to be a major surrogate regardless.

[hokies4ever]

19. Everything has been under a microscope this election season

and it's going to continue for the V.P. as well. The last thing you want in a V.P. is someone who reminds you of Bush's Big Brother style of government expanding the role of the Executive Branch.

[FARAFIELD]

2. Colin Powell? You are joking right?

He wouldnt come within sight of a Republican President. He is more likely to endorse Obama. And republican women are all like that Batshit Crazy congresscritter from Tenn. They are more apt to be militant and obliterate something than hillary.

[MikeNearMcChord]

3. And it will run even more conservatives from the GOP.

[saltpoint]

4. The Pukes are a wiley bunch and it would be good to short-circuit

McCain's choice in advance, somehow.

I have no idea how to do that, by the way.

I'm sure Willard wants to be the veep nom. I hope to God he isn't.

Pawlenty seems kind of wayward and possibly nuts to me, although he's more or less hosting the Pukes in the Twin Cities and Minnesota could, maybe, possibly, be a battleground state.

If we nominate Barack Obama, IMO Minnesota goes a deep blue. It may lift Franken's chances against the loathsome Norm Coleman as well.

[Joyce78]

5. NO

[babylonsister]

6. I DON'T see Powell ever going there. And I don't see McCain picking

a woman. Maybe he'll go for Pawlenty? This is from 2006, but I've heard that rumor:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/11/look_for_mccainpawlenty_in_200.html

Here's a story from April 08 (Warning: r/w site):

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26070

[hokies4ever]

12. Pawlenty is the leading V.P. nod on electionbetting.com

[AllentownJake]

7. Bobby Jindal

You heard it here first.

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

His position on Abortion makes him a GOP hero and he's young.

[grantcart]

9. not enough experience and he has said that he is not going to be a candidate

under any circumstances - in 4 years he is a likely VP candidate

[Samantha]

10. If Obama selects Hagel, McCain will go to his nuclear option and

pick Hillary. I don't he wants to run with her (really) but I think he will have no choice than to offset the appeal of a split ticket Obama has selected by doing the same himself.

[FSogol]

16. The only one who thinks Obama will pick Hagel is GOP tv pundits.

It is a really stupid rumor.

[Samantha]

24. This rumor has persisted from the inception of the Obama campaign

I am not saying it will happen; but it COULD happen if Obama looks at the raw numbers and asks himself what does he need to assure a win. I do have my own personal preferences as to who I hope he chooses, but if that is HIS answer, I will gracefully go will it. That choice would lend a lot of credence to his assertion that he wants to bring Republicans, Democrats and Independents together. Hagel also has a lot of experience that would be a plus to the Obama ticket, he was against the war from the beginning, and he could definitely attract disaffected Republicans.

So my thinking is after looking at the numbers if Obama thinks he can afford the luxury of simply picking the one he wants, so much the better. But if he has to turn to Hagel to cement the win, I think we must support that choice. The bottom line for me is that OBAMA MUST WIN.

Sam

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Very interesting thought - I haven't had before. Who picks first.

Don't remember this being in play before - but now I can see -- this time it certainly will be.

[Samantha]

25. I think that is KEY - who goes first in announcing his choice

and the other will react accordingly. Will it be a huge waiting game until the last possible moment to see who will go out on the political limb and announce his choice first?

[New Dawn]

11. Mike Huckabee.

They do not want their Southern base to rebel.

[Aloha Spirit]

23. I'm with you on this one.

[Orangepeel]

13. I doubt Powell would take it.

He wouldn't take it with bush. Besides he likes Obama.

[frickaline]

15. Powell's career is dead, you can find the corpse at the UN building

[Tribetime]

18. Big Ernie McCracken call pull in the bowling voters

Please excuse my post Kingpin was on last night

[woolldog]

21. If he picks a woman it will hurt democrats, yes.

I don't think Powell would accept the VP slot.

[NaturalHigh]

22. No way McCain will pick Colin Powell.

He needs someone younger on the ticket with him. If he picks a woman as his VP, he will garner some votes from Democrats.