Word is McCain is vetting Congressman Eric Cantor as V.P.

[Virginia Dare]

one of the hugest asshats on Capitol Hill and a major prick. I can't watch him without wanting to kick my teevee in. Why am I not surprised?

On edit: I left out that he is a conservative Jew, kind of like a young Lieberman.

[babylonsister]

1. Cantor and McGrouchy: two major pricks. Oh joy. nt

[Occam Bandage]

2. I see they're goin' for the young-and-pretty veep.

[Virginia Dare]

3. Yep, and he's a Jew, so they can claim they picked a minority..n/t

[NightWatcher]

4. is he trying to pick a Virginian to counter Obama's picking Kaine?

pathetic and feable attempt to win votes in VA

[Virginia Dare]

7. That's my thought..

Obama has basically thrown down the gauntlet in Virginia. It's very important to his strategy. This is McAssinine's way of countering it.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Ok, give us the skinny on this person

He must be pretty bad if you describe him the way you do.

Will Bob Barr still look like a reasonable choice to the disaffected conservatives? I know many of them-they'll never vote our way, so I'm trying to steer them to the Libertarian Party.

[Virginia Dare]

6. He's a darling of the Rush Limbaugh crowd..

anti-tax, anti-"gays", etc. etc. He's a real right wing whack job. He's young, good-looking and Jewish, so he's the "perfect" choice for McGramps.

[wmbrew0206]

8. If McCain picks Cantor, it is a win for Obama

Cantor means that McCain is picking a VP to hold a states that Bush won and he is not trying to flip a state from blue to red. McCain is playing defense while Obama can go on the offense and pick a VP that will change a state from red to blue.

[Frank Booth]

9. This will make it harder for the Republicans to push the whole "Obama is arrogant" meme.

Cantor comes off as pathologically arrogant, even by the standards of DC.

[saltpoint]

10. If it's a religious nutcase he wants, he'd be better off with Franklin Graham.

Unfortunately for democracy, there is a preponderance of religious nutcases in most regions of the country.

However. As religious nutcases go, by and large, demographically, I think Franklin Graham takes the cake.

[mucifer]

11. How about if Obama picks a liberal Jew and we get Feingold or Bernie Sanders!

Ok, I know that's not gonna happen.

[saltpoint]

12. I could sure get on board that train.

[lamp_shade]

13. I don't think anybody wants the job. eom

He's picking through the laundry trying to find a clean pair of socks.

[Vinca]

14. Cantor is on my top 10 list of GOP assholes. Right after Marsha Blackburn. nt