When McCain becomes too big a liability, who will they replace him with?

[jmowreader]

At some point in the very near future, the combination of McCain's very nasty temper, his beer-peddling wife, his gaffes and his corruption will lead the Republicans to send him home and appoint someone who's never been near George Bush in his life as the GOP's standardbearer. When this happens, who are they going to choose?

Any candidate the Repukes pick, if they're not actively planning to throw the election, has to meet four criteria:

legally electable
acceptable to the kool-aid drinkers
palatable to the general populace
willing to give up six months out of his or her life so he or she can probably get stomped REAL bad

Let me see...

Linda Lingle (governor of Hawaii) isn't acceptable to the kool-aid drinkers--twice-divorced and no kids

Sarah Palin (governor of Alaska) won't do it

Arnold Schwarzenegger (governor of California) carries so much baggage they should name him Arnold Samsonite--and he can't run for president anyway because he was born in Austria

Jeb Bush (currently working as an offramp bum) is even more radioactive than his name implies

The freepers won't vote for either Romney or Huckabee

There's always Rudy, but he's a man of the people and the only people who wanted him to run for president on the Republican ticket were running for president on the Democratic one. Rudy's so fucking bad his own mother endorsed Barack Obama.

Goodhair Perry maybe...but his hair's the only thing good about him.

So who are they gonna get? Or should they just go grab a county sheriff from a severely Republican area who wouldn't mind having a few months away from raiding meth labs?

[LakeSamish706]

1. I don't think they could do that, but who knows? n/t

[opihimoimoi]

2. Vitter? Craig? Nope, over qualied....Rummy? Newt? Keyes? Bauer?

Hey, dey got pleny peeps to choose from...

[jmowreader]

10. Keyes left the GOP

I was thinking Jodi Rell (governor of Connecticut) until I looked her up...she's the one who signed the Civil Unions bill in Connecticut, hence is unacceptable to the KADs.

Y'know, Butch Otter, governor of Idaho, might fit the bill. His biggest advantage is his relative anonymity.

[opihimoimoi]

18. LOL, I forgot about Keyes being an Indy now....The GOP is bankrupt re viable candidates

[Ikonoklast]

3. A bale of hay.

The hay bale has more charm, is stronger on the economy, has a real foreign policy that doesn't include killing everything, and never lost an election.




Oh, and is still with his FIRST wife.

[bowens43]

4. McCain is the candidate and he will continue to be the candidate.

[annabanana]

5. They will not "replace" him.... But watch their VP pick..

HE will be their choice.

[chknltl]

6. Do ya suppose that the plan is to decide....

...which republican matches up best against Senator Obama, stick him or her in VP slot then have mCcain bow out for some fictitious yet acceptable reason BEFORE November? Is that even do-able? Would that VP candidate then move up into the Presidential candidate slot?

FWIW: I think that the neo-con corporatists knew looooong ago that a Democrat would be our next POTUS. I doubt they treat the mCcain campaign as anything other than a useful distraction, one that they are not distracted by. I further suspect that Senator mCcaine has yet again been thrown under the bus.

[jmowreader]

11. I think it's more than doable

Every state elections board has a procedure they use when a candidate dies on the campaign trail; I don't think that if, come October, McCain suddenly got "too sick to be president" they'd force him to continue.

[stray cat]

7. McCain got the nomination because he has the best chance to win at for the GOP

[Jack Rabbit]

8. McCain is no less electable than any other Republican this year

He's going down hard and so is the GOP.

[saltpoint]

9. I think it will be Pete Rose.

They'll finally realize that McCain's temper is so volatile that they can't risk having him take the whole team down with him in November, and likely hire those people from zoos with tranquilizer guns to hunt him down at a fish fry in Amarillo.

Pete Rose is the man for the job, IMO.

For a veep nom, Pete could choose Harriet Miers.

Rose / Miers 08. Rolls right off the tongue, don't it?

[Perry Logan]

12. The next President.

[Subdivisions]

13. Maybe Ron Paul? He's the only one of the original

repug candidates that is still running. In fact, he will be speaking in DC on July 12th for the Ron Pual Revolution march.

[KamaAina]

14. Lingle is Jewish

for the Kool-Aid drinkers, that's Strike Three.

[opihimoimoi]

19. Lingle has baggage...6 years and nothing happened...

[Truth2Tell]

15. They will keep him and pray

that the media does what it has always done and ignores the fact that the Republican candidate is a complete farce.

It's gonna be one serious "Weekend at Bernie's" campaign, but they pulled it off with Bush so go figure.

[Disturbed]

16. McLame & Jeb Bush

I predicted this about a year ago & am stickin' with it.

[gratuitous]

17. The GOP has written off this campaign season

The money has pretty much dried up, McCain is running his campaign on fumes, and what passes for the smart folks in the Republican party are already planning for 2012. This is as bad as or worse than running Bobdole in 1996.

[blondeatlast]

20. "Weekend at Bernie's" campaign--PERFECT!

:rofl:

[halliburtonsux]

21. His VP pick - that's been the plan all along. The GOP knows they...

couldn't openly force Huckahell on us - they are pushing McInsane as a 'good, transitional candidate.' The media uses this term constantly, to get us acclimated to the idea.
Then, they will force his retirement due to his malignant melanoma returning, and give us Huckahell.

[ColbertWatcher]

22. Michael Steele.

He's black and obedient, everything the GOP could ever want.

Plus, who's to say it isn't someone already in the works, lurking in the shadows...

[CK_John]

23. CJ John Roberts of course. n/t