If not Fiorina, Nikki Haley would be a decent alternative choice.
Trump will pick no running mate. That would be a tacit admission that he is mortal.
I have no doubt O’Malley stayed in for VP points. Not sure if it will pay off though.
Those states really aren’t dispositive on this point though, because they were too much of a reach. Although I like the Kerry-Edwards ticket, picking someone from Ohio might have gotten him over the hump.
And I dislike Biden in particular, going back to his Anti-RAVE Act Amber Alert shenanigans, not to mention his plagiarism.
And can’t do everything himself.
I never heard it and now I wish I hadn’t, but for the specific reason that cutesy, awkward acronyms are obnoxious. Even if the Patriot Act didn’t have civil liberties implications but gave me $1,000, I would hate it the second that I heard it stood for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001”. Politicians please stop getting your naming advice from “Get Rid of Slimy girlS.”
I’m no Haley fan by any stretch, but she’d be a much better choice than Fiorina.
As rare as it is to choose primary opponents for VP, I can’t think of any case where a primary opponent who’s done as poorly as O’Malley has been chosen. It’s pretty clear that whatever he’s selling, voters don’t want any. That said, I could imagine him getting a cabinet position in a Clinton administration.
I think any Republican who gets nominated might pick Rubio. He offers a cover for anti-Hispanic sentiment (because let’s face it; if the illegals came from a lighter skinned country, I bet the outcry would be much less), has a swing state (Florida), and is young. His downside tho is his hardline abortion stance. Fiorina won’t get it because her business record is horrendous and she’s less “warm” than Hillary; Fiorina is colder than Antarctica. If Trump gets it tho, I could also see him picking Rick Santorum, hence why Santorum showed up at the Trump vet event. He has Pennsylvania, which the GOP last carried in 1988 (and barely against Dukakis).
Rubio will jump for VP no matter who gets the nod; FDR was on the ticket of the 1920 Democratic ticket, which lost in the largest popular landslide in US history (nearly 30% between the top two candidates). Didn’t kill FDR’s career.
For the Dems, I hope its Joe Manchin, and maybe it could be. Dems know they need to start winning again in Appalachia and move the party back to the center from where Obama tried to move it far to the left. His downside is that the far-left won’t be happy, but given how the hardcore Bernie voters will probably stay home, it might not matter anyway. Castro I think is too risky; he’s not masculine looking enough, and yes, his last name won’t help him. Unlike Obama’s middle name, it would be on placards and signs. Dems aren’t carrying Texas any time soon. Hillary could also pick Sherrod Brown of Ohio; tho I didn’t like his remark comparing “white men” to Islamic terrorists, which reinforces the perception of far-left. She’s not gonna pick Warren; too women is too much change. And Dems need to tone down the anti-capitalist stuff, with which Warren is associated.
Agreed. She’s probably the best candidate for the Republican VP slot. Carly Fiorina is less qualified for the job than Palin was.
Is there a Southern Democrat that can swing a key state? Like a Castro brother?
But any Pub who ran with Clinton would be burning his bridges back to the GOP. Win or lose, he’d have no future as a Pub.
Ain’t gonna happen. Rice is almost certainly a lesbian. Nobody talked or cared about that when she was NSA, but many would if she were on a presidential ticket, and it would alienate too many Pub voters. (One or two other things might, too.)
Being from just across the river in IL, I’d like to see Sanders/McCaskill. She’s a reasonably respected senator on both sides of the aisle from MO and does a lot for veterans.She also is extremely centrist, if that’s possible. I don"t think she would work with Clinton, because I think people would freak out at a two woman ticket.
She has attacked Bernie though. I know, Reagan-Bush, but still.
Then he has to be old. Like Colin Powell. But I think Powell burned his GOP bridges already, so not sure if this name means much to Republican voters any more.
Bill Nelson? Tim Kaine?
John Huntsman is still around, and still quite qualified.
Every four years, the idea of a bi-partisan ticket gets floated and it is never, ever going to happen. Who really wants the presidency to switch parties should the president become incapacitated?
IT would have happened in 2004 had McCain said yes. It wasn’t quite as close in 2008 when McCain wanted Lieberman. That one was stopped by the unwillingness to have a floor fight at the convention.
It will happen if one party sees an ideologically extreme ticket on the other side and want to counter it most effectively. A Clinton/moderate Republican ticket would capture a lot of moderate Republican votes that might otherwise hold their nose and get on the Ted Cruz bandwagon just to stop Clinton.
The reason it probably won’t happen in 2016 of course is that Clinton needs to get the Sanders fans on board, who will already be disgruntled. Selecting a Republican running mate would be a giant “FU” to that base of voters.
When the nation was young, the second highest vote-getter became the VP. It only took one term of frenemies Adams and Jefferson at odds to figure out the drawbacks of that plan.