His position on the war is that he is for it, but doesn’t like the way it was handled.
Rice is perfect for that position since it can be argued that violence went down when Bush started taking Rice’s advice over Rumsfeld’s with regards to the war.
Rice made her mistakes, but it appears she knows more about what she is doing then the rest of the Bush squad.
Though I agree with the sentiment that independents won’t get past the fact that she worked in the Bush administration.
She IS currently out of a job, had to give up her House seat to try for Dominichi’s Senate spot, but lost the primary to Congressman Steve Pearce.
She was also up to her eyeballs in the DOJ scandle.
I love the Frankenstein look he’s going for.
I don’t see how this follows: McCain’s the one with experience, and Palin would be getting on-the-job training.
If McCain doesn’t think the President should be inexperienced, then why put an experience person one heart beat away from the Presidency?
I’d say more like Steven Seagal in 10 years. Anyway Ventura is awesome and I would vote for him.
McCain will be 72. There’s a non-trivial chance that he will die or be debilitated during his term, even in the first year. He, much more then any other recent candidate, needs to choose a VP that the electorate can picture being ready to assume the presidency, even during the first day.
If he spends the campaign knocking Obama’s experience, and then tries to tell people that they don’t need to worry about his (McCain’s) age because his VP, who two years ago was the mayor of a town with the population of a New York City apartment building, can pick up everything she needs to know about being Prez on the job, then he won’t get elected.
Whoooooosh!
Naw. The suit coat definately says Frankie.
And he’s a nut job anyway. Did you listen to him babble about 9-11?
A couple problems with Ventura.
He’s nuts. He has a seemingly endless reserve of stupid ideas and he never has one without mentioning it in public. Crap like “you don’t know what hunting is until you’ve hunted man” is the norm with him, not the exception.
He hates the parties. He would never represent the Republicans or the Democrats.
He would never play second banana. In the movies, sure but in real life - no way.
He has an extremely adversarial relationship with the media. He hates reporters. A lot. His idea of dealing with them is to insult them. That should generate lots of negative publicity.
I really doubt that someone who has bragged about nailing prostitutes and called religious people “sheep” is likely to appeal to the red state electorate.
As for Dole, just think…
2008 McCain - Dole
2004 Bush - Cheney
2000 Bush - Cheney
1996 Dole - Kemp
1992 Bush - Quayle
1988 Bush - Quayle
1984 Regan - Bush
1980 Regan - Bush
1976 Ford - Dole
I can’t think of any woman right now that McCain could pick that would seem like a good choice other than for her being a woman. If he does go this route it could be a sign of desperation.
Dick Cheney that would stay the course like he wants to do.
That could theoretically put Nancy Pelosi two feeble heartbeats away from the White House.
But he’d have a decent chance of being the top banana.
His earlier electors seemed to like it.
QFT. Still, because it’s all out in the open, it can’t be effectively used against him - there are easy retorts
Ventura has backed off the 9-11 conspiracy stuff a little bit. he’s now saying that he’s “just asking questions,” not trying to insist there absolutely was a conspiracy, just that there were some (in his mind) curiosities about it, and insisting that there’s nothing wrong with just asking questions.
By the way, if The Mind runs for anything, it’s going to be the Minnesota Senate race (the one where Norm Coleman is being challeneged by Al Franken). That could make for an entertaining race.
Wasn’t she just fishing for dirt on her opponent in a race? Not exactly the height of corruption there. I first heard of her as someone who challenged Bush on his weird interpretation of “following the law” regarding FISA.
She’s not my ideal candidate, but I’m voting for the Democrat this year anyway.
As for Jesse Ventura, well, I didn’t know that much about him. The point remains that if McCain could find somebody out of the Independence Party to come back to the GOP banner, it’d help him a lot.
She (congresswoman Heather Wilson R- NM1) and her mentor, Senator Dominichi were pressuring prosicuter David Iglasias to fast track an indictment against some dems so that it would be in the press prior to the Nov. 2006 election. Iglasias’ non-cooperation got him fired, which ended up being the end of the thread that congressional investigations kept pulling until Gonzalas unraveled.
Wonder how picking a relatively inexperienced woman would play against the relatively inexperienced Obama?
In the “John McCain solves Energy Crisis” I noted that McCain’s recent prize for a leapfrog in battery technology suggestion is taking a page right out of Gingrich’s recent schtick. Gingrich, I also noted there, is on record as saying that he’d take the VP spot if offered. Meanwhile he talks up VP choices that really won’t make it - the newbies Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal, neither of whom would deliver any electoral votes that McCain shouldn’t already be able to rely upon and who accomplish nothing other than emphasizing how old he is. Gingrich has to know that those are no-go options really. He wants the job and McCain is using his material. Heck, Gingrich was saying off-shore drill on June 12 and a few days later McCain is publicly calling for it to good pr effect.
Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not.
Gingrich would pull in lots of the conservative base that are unsure about McCain and might otherwise bleed off, either staying home or voting Barr in protest, and he has some intellectual chops. Negatives? Yup he has 'em but he’d be a powerful attack dog. Get lots of media coverage at no charge. Get some on the right excited.
Hmmmm.
God, I hope McCain is this stupid. I doubt it, but still, I hope.
