My point is that he, and he alone, was in a position to refuse Palin a place on the ticket. It was ultimately his decision, and all the practical excuse-making, which boils down to “BUT HE DIDN’T KNOW,” reflects very badly on him. He should have known, as you and I and a cocker spaniel knows, that choosing a total unknown for the second most powerful job in the world is a formula for disaster. At best, it’s a foolishly risky political manuever. At worst, it puts the country in grave danger.
Romney. Although he’s been demonized right now, and his tax policy doesn’t add up and will leave the country worse off, I think he’s a moderate, and the ‘real’ Romney is not the one who’s appeasing the tea partiers.
Preferable to McCain or Bush 43, anyhow.
If he does end up in the White House, I will personally contribute to the secret service, because the idea of Ryan becoming president is my real fear.
But that’s the problem. Even if that’s not the “real” Romney…we don’t have any idea which Romney would be President Romney. I don’t know that he’d be a moderate once in office if he didn’t feel like it served him well, no matter what he believes privately. That’s the scary part.
Choosing between those three is akin go having to chose between death by hanging, death by firing squad, and death by poison. I’d go with the firing squad.
Since you didn’t specify that the “registered Republican” VP had to be currently living, how about Teddy Roosevelt, circa 1903?
No?
Uh…
Rick Perry. Because the effort made to keep McCain alive will be so vast and all-encompassing that it will lead to technologies that will lengthen the lifespan of every human on Earth by 30%.
Oh, and my veggie side dish will be corn on the cob, with butter and salt.
I just watched Jon Stewart and saw McCain jumping on the “Not Optimal” bullshit bandwagon. What a dolt; what an asshole. Between that and picking Palin for V.P., … ? I wonder what drugs I was on, for the earlier post.
Given that Nixon, Ford, Bush Senior and even Reagan were OK, and Dole would have been, the present-day crew of GOP Presidents and contenders is amazingly pathetic.
He was never really a liberal bogeyman; he was just the guy who won the nomination in 2008, and would surely have signed most of the legislation that the GOP could get through Congress.
Right now, he’s a “get off my lawn”-level crank, and he was never the font of wisdom that the MSM even now continues to think he is (as evidenced by the fact that they keep on inviting him back to appear on the Sunday morning political talk shows) but he’s not the sort of morally reprehensible asshole that the other two are.
If the choice were just between GWB and Mitt, I’d say: shoot me now.
