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Martha (but not Stewart)
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posted 03 February 2008 09:35 PM      Profile for Martha (but not Stewart)     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So ... predictions for vice-presidential running mates? A little googling revealed the following seemingly informed speculations.

Democratic tickets: Clinton-Obama, Obama-Clinton, Obama-Richardson, Clinton-Strickland, Clinton-Bayh.

Republican tickets: McCain-Lieberman, McCain-Bush (Jeb Bush), McCain-Huckabee, McCain-Giulani.


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Ken Burch
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posted 03 February 2008 10:02 PM      Profile for Ken Burch     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm pretty sure McCain wouldn't choose Lieberman as his running mate.

McCain is sane enough to know that this would fire up and unite Dems(who are, as usual, squabbling and divided)like nothing else.

That, and Lieberman would most likely not take the job. The general assumption is he would want to be Secretary of State or Defense in a McCain Administration.


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Martha (but not Stewart)
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posted 03 February 2008 10:08 PM      Profile for Martha (but not Stewart)     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Ken Burch:
I'm pretty sure McCain wouldn't choose Lieberman as his running mate.

Lieberman seems to agree.:

"I think John has much better judgment than that," Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut jokingly told Cybercast News Service on Thursday when asked whether Sen. John McCain might name him his vice presidential candidate.


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ghoris
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posted 04 February 2008 08:02 AM      Profile for ghoris     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The conventional wisdom is that neither Obama nor Clinton would be on the ticket with the other (either because neither would ask or neither would accept), but damn if they didn't look like a ticket onstage the other night in the LA Times Debate. OTOH, the amount they've attacked each other would give the GOP lots of fodder in the general ("His/her own vice-presidential nominee said he/she likes to eat babies...").

We keep hearing that Evan Bayh has the inside track if Clinton wins, but I'm sure she'd also be looking at Bill Richardson (best pick IMHO) and probably Ted Strickland and Jim Webb too.

For Obama, I expect that Richardson would also be on the shortlist, possibly along with Joe Biden - both to shore up the foreign policy side. A new name that is coming up with increasing regularity is Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius.

On the GOP side, supposedly Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is the 'frontrunner' if McCain gets the nomination, but I'm sure he's also looking at other options too.


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torontoprofessor
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posted 04 February 2008 10:02 AM      Profile for torontoprofessor     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by ghoris:
OTOH, the amount they've attacked each other would give the GOP lots of fodder in the general ("His/her own vice-presidential nominee said he/she likes to eat babies...").

I remember Ronald Reagan's vice-presidential running mate had called Reagan's economic policies "Voodoo Economics" before they ran together.


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Albireo
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posted 04 February 2008 10:18 AM      Profile for Albireo     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yup, that was none other than George H. W. Bush.

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The same Bush Sr. who much later had this to say about why he didn't invade Iraq after Gulf War I:

quote:
We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under the circumstances, there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome.

Bush, George and Brent Scowcroft. A World Transformed.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. ISBN 0-679-43248-5 (p. 489).


Just goes to show that intelligence isn't always heritable.

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Boom Boom
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posted 04 February 2008 11:20 AM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Martha (but not Stewart):
McCain-Bush (Jeb Bush)

Please, God, not ANOTHER Bush!

If Jeb Bush is on the ticket, then I hope Hillary Clinton is the Dem nominee, and that daughter Chelsea runs in 2016 or 2020! This is getting ridiculous, may as well stretch it out a bit.


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Michelle
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posted 21 August 2008 03:36 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It'll be interesting to compare the predictions now to these ones and these ones.
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