It’s President McCain
As gutless Obama ignores my sober counsel and picks Biden for his elevator shoes. Unless McCain does something dumb like, pick Romney. NYT.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:09 am on Saturday, August 23, 2008
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August 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Glad to see you back JC. Its been a long summer. Gonna be a fun fall though!
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Yes, welcome back man!
Romney’s the safe pick, but I swear (excuse me!), I’d love Lieberman!!
Fortunately, Biden’s a disaster. This has got to be God’s gift to the GOP: Obama and Biden, birds of a lying, deceitful feather…
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Jules:
Please tell us why you think that McCain would be making mistake by choosing Romney as his running mate. I am not trolling, I just don’t know enough to have an opinion.
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Flip-flopper doesn’t help much at either end of the spectrum. He had his shot and wisely bailed. Lieberman has character, right on the single most important issue of our time, could bring in the middle. PO’s the right, though it’s hard to imagine significant numbers cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Anyway, it’s McCain’s choice, I’m not handicapping the field. Suffice it to say I’m sorely disappointed in Obama for depriving us of three months of fun, and its now McCain’s to bollix.
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
“Flip-flopper doesn’t help much at either end of the spectrum”
I assume that you are referring to Romney’s positions shifts on the “social” issues. I am not sure that they will have much traction in the general election where the parties will be trying to attract the moderates in the middle. Are there other things that I am missing?
“He had his shot and wisely bailed.”
I don’t think he embarrassed himself. IIRC, he was a lot more viable than Biden was. And since then he has been working hard for McCain.
I understand you like Joe Liberman, I do too. But I think the Republican party would be very upset by the idea. Remember that Harry Reid is majority leader because Joe voted for him. I think that picking Liberman would hurt McCain with Republicans, not all of them, but enough of them.
Right now McCain is running even with Obama. I don’t think he needs to risk any further alienation of his base. I don’t think that Romney (or even Tom Ridge) runs much of a risk of doing that, but Joe would certainly do it.
Who should McCain choose? I can tell you that the uncommitted moderates I have spoken to are most concerned by McCain’s age, and want him to pick somebody who could plausibly serve if McCain were to die in office. I think that Romney and Tom Ridge fit that criterion and that Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin do not. Tim Pawlenty is on the edge.
I regard Joe Biden as a buffoon. I think that Ron Rosenbaum got it right about Biden:
“Biden’s sagacity and earnestness act would only go over in the class of dummies that is the U.S. Senate. … Biden has proven himself incapable of opening his mouth without making you cringe at his self-congratulatory pretentiousness.”
I think that Obama has made an unforced error by picking Biden. McCain does not need to throw a “Hail Mary” he needs a quick hitter to the sidelines for maybe 5 yards.
August 24th, 2008 at 1:35 am
The CT governor is a Republican and would undoubtedly pick a republican to replace Lieberman to help alter the balance in the senate. For this reason alone, Lieberman would probably decline the offer.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Even Mr. H, who intends to vote for Obama (although he is weakening), thought Biden was a horrible choice.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Tom Ridge? You must be joking.
I like Romney, actually, because of his executive experience. (Even bungling things as an executive is useful experience, in my view.) But I fear he would not be very electable. I hate it that we have to think not only about who would do a good job but also about the game of getting elected, but that’s politics, eh?
I like Leiberman too but think he is even less likely to help McCain get elected. Might bring in some Democrats, but I think he would cause a lot of Republicans to say “see, McCain is not really a Republican Conservative.” And he is not young and beautiful. Sadly, that seems to matter quite a bit.
It seems like one of the biggest questions this year is how many people (and which people) will actually vote–the Hillary fans, the young people, the secretly-don’t-trust-Obama-but-don’t tell-anyone-Democrats, those for whom illegal immigration is a key issue… plenty of wild cards, it seems.
Palin seemed interesting to me but probably not well known enough. I like the idea of her helping to siphon off Hillary fans. I don’t follow this stuff closely enough to know whether that actually matters.
Cantor sounded good to me but he seems to have dropped off the radar screen.
I think McCain will win as long as he doesn’t pick Huckabee, and I can’t imagine he would be that stupid (famous last words).
I think Biden will indeed sink the team in the end, but I can see why he would be considered a good choice. A lot of people like him, oddly enough. I think the kind of Democrats who like him are the kind of Democrats who might vote for McCain, so in a sense it seems like a smart choice to me.
By the way, this seems like a good time to mention that the best known way to get rid of trolls is to ignore them. Hard to do, but it generally works.