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McCains V.P.

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All the Blogs are talking up who will be McCains running mate...No real agreement much- altho a couple mention Phil Gramm- altho others believe he will be the Treasury Secretary in a McCain cabinet....

The one thing all agree on- none think Huckabee will be the V.P. choice.....


February 8, 2008
Let's Play Veepstakes!
Posted by TOM BEVAN

Good Lord things move fast. Pat Toomey must have started writing this piece for the Wall Street Journal before Mitt Romney had even finished speaking yesterday. Here are Toomey's top picks for a fiscal conservative to round out a McCain ticket:

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint
Indiana Rep. Mike Pence
Former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm
Forbes Inc. CEO Steve Forbes


Over at the Campaign Standard, Stephen Hayes adds two names to the list: Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and former Ohio Congressman Rob Portman.

Also at the Campaign Standard, Fred Barnes chimes in to list the reasons it won't be Jeb. Barnes also throws a bit of cold water on Pawlenty, and suggest Vin Weber might work instead. Senators Brownback, Coburn, and Burr also get mentions. Barnes writes that "supporters of Mike Huckabee shouldn't get their hopes up," and suggests that Romney and McCain may have begun a process of reconciliation that might end up in a general election partnership this fall, a la Reagan and HW in 1980.


Not wanting to be left out of the parlor game, let me throw a few more names into the ring. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is one that comes to mind. But the two most interesting and dynamic names that should at least get a mention are former Oklahoma Congressman JC Watts and current GOPAC Chairman Michael Steele. Both are young, qualified stars of the Republican party, well liked by conservatives and would offer the GOP a "first" of its own by putting an African-American on a national ticket.
 

passin thru

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It will come down to the VP that can bring in the needed Electoral votes and that will take a little more time to shake out. I would bet though the VP will be a conservative so they can get the Cons vote, there is no way he will come up with another Lib
 

MoGal

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Here's a good article about how much Hitlary is in a tizzy, but to answer your question about McCains VP here are some spins

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/09/wus509.xml

The one thing the Clinton and Obama camps can agree on is that John McCain, who is popular with independents and moderate Democrats, is their "worst nightmare".

They now fear that he could pick Colin Powell or former congressman JC Watts, both of whom are African American, as his running mate.

But Mr McCain still has to shore up his conservative base and is actively looking at the Governors of Minnesota, South Carolina, Indiana, Mississippi, Florida and Texas: Tim Pawlenty, Mark Sandford, Mitch Daniels, Haley Barbour, Charlie Crist and Rick Perry.

Allies of President Bush are making the case for Rob Portman, a former White House Budget office director and Ohio congressman.
 

aplusmnt

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katrina said:
What about Lieberman??

I like Lieberman as far as the Libs go. But I want to see McCain pick someone conservative as his VP. I think he needs to do that to give some balance.

Plus if McCain ends up in a nursing home during his term, we would have a conservative to take over instead of a Democratic Liberal taking over for a Republican Liberal.

But I would trust Lieberman on the war against terrorist and that is my first and most important issue.
 
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aplusmnt said:
katrina said:
What about Lieberman??

I like Lieberman as far as the Libs go. But I want to see McCain pick someone conservative as his VP. I think he needs to do that to give some balance.

Plus if McCain ends up in a nursing home during his term, we would have a conservative to take over instead of a Democratic Liberal taking over for a Republican Liberal.

But I would trust Lieberman on the war against terrorist and that is my first and most important issue.

Looks like Rush likes Lieberman over McCain :???: :wink:

Limbaugh: Lieberman-McCain Ticket?

Monday, February 11, 2008 3:38 PM

By: Newsmax Staff




Radio talker Rush Limbaugh continued his attack on John McCain on Monday, saying his campaign is failing to unify or energize the Republican Party — and suggesting that Joe Liebermann might make a better candidate.

Republicans “are supposed to be unifying behind McCain,” Rush told listeners, but considering Mike Huckabee’s successes in caucuses over the weekend, it’s clear they are not.

“Mike Huckabee is not going away,” said Limbaugh. “He continues to run as if he has a chance to win the Republican nomination.”

Rush cited a headline in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, “McCain Still Dogged by Conservatives’ Ire.”

And he noted that Huckabee had pointed to the Republican nomination race in 1976, when incumbent president Gerald Ford won the nod over Ronald Reagan but failed to energize the party and lost the general election, implying that McCain is a “similar candidate” to Ford.

He also reminded listeners that Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum had lost his Senate seat in 2006 by a large margin while espousing support for the troop surge in Iraq, which McCain continues to back.

Limbaugh said he had “many options,” and could support Huckabee, or McCain, or even Ron Paul.

“How about Lieberman for president and McCain for vice president?” Rush mused.

During a break, Limbaugh’s Web site played a song with the refrain “who wants McCain,” sung to the tune of “Who’ll Stop the Rain.”

On the Democratic side, Limbaugh said: “This guy Obama is running away with this.”

Hillary’s campaign “thought they had this thing in the bag,” he added. “This is desperation time for the Clintons.”

Hillary’s situation is so desperate, according to Rush, that last week he even suggested he might run a fundraiser for Clinton to help ensure that she will be the Democratic presidential nominee rather than Barack Obama.

After the withdrawal of Mitt Romney from the GOP race, Rush told his listeners on Thursday: “Mitt did his part today. He got out so as not to fracture the party any further and not to harm the effort to win the war in Iraq.

“Should I do my part, not by joining my liberal friends in the Republican Party, but actually raising money for Mrs. Clinton, and asking you to join me, so that she would have a chance here to once again have a good shot at getting a Democrat nomination so that we win the White House?"

Earlier in the week Limbaugh said in comments reported by ABC News that he believed Clinton is “going to gin up enough anti-Hillary turnout out there to perhaps be a boon to whoever the Republican nominee is,” adding that if Obama is the Democratic nominee, “we are doomed.”

On Thursday he said about Hillary: “We've got make sure she's the nominee if the Republican Party is to be unified. What more loyal thing could I do than to run a fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton? You watch, though, you watch how that will be questioned.”
 
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