Maybe he should ask Cheney to head a committee to find a VP for him.
I wonder what the results would be for something like THAT!? I mean, sure he picked himself once, but would he have the chutzpah to do it twice?
Ah. The word you are looking for is “electability” I think, not “politics”.
Chutzpah, yes. Durability, no. When you’re 71 and using a hand-me-down heart, ya gotta face it that your career has peaked.
Ticket balancing is done for political reasons which we are trying to do away with in this thread.
Well, setting aside electability still leaves (only) two irreducibly political considerations: 1) Who would make the best Veep? 2) Should, Og forbid, Romney die/be incapacitated/resign before his term is complete, who would make the best POTUS? And 1) is all but meaningless – it is the nature of that not-worth-a-bucket-of-warm-piss office that there is no such thing as a great Veep – all we can reasonably expect of a Veep is that he not be embarrassing to the Administration/country like Quayle was (yes, way the fuck worse than Biden), and not try to play vizier/ventriloquist like Cheney did – it’s a low bar. So, let’s go with 2). And that’s a challenge. A Pub, still in the GOP after all these decades of its crazy-creep, who would make a good POTUS . . . would pretty much have to be a RINO, or, more specifically, a Rockefeller Republican. Jeez, how many of those are left?!
Agreed. I propose we get rid of the VP.
Ties in the senate are decided by the President. The First Spouse can attend all the BS functions the VP usually attends. Everyone moves up a spot in the line of succession list.
Great idea! I want to live in a country where it’s theoretically possible for the President to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate one day, and veto the bill the next.
Let’s just merge the offices of VP and SoS; then the VP will actually have something to do and, if called on to be POTUS, will at least have immense foreign-policy experience.
That’s how it is now. What, you think the Veep ever votes a way his POTUS doesn’t want? Cheney might have, but in every other Admin the strings are pulled from the other end.
How many assassins were put off killing Bush because they didn’t want President Cheney?
W learned a very useful lesson from his Daddy, there. Remember the “President’s Prayer Club” bumper-stickers?
Why not? We already have senators filibustering legislation that they themselves sponsored.
Intrade update. Their top 5 Republican vp candidates
Portman 28.5
Rubio 20.5
Pawlenty 6.5
Daniels 6.4
Christie 6.2