With the Democrats having a presumptive nominee (the liberal Barack Hussein Obama) finally, now everybody wants to talk about who the nominees will select as their running mates. Being part of everybody, I had to throw in my two cents.
On the Democrat side, many are saying Obama should select Hillary Clinton to create a "dream ticket." I disagree. Obama and Clinton just spent the past year telling everybody how lousy the other one is--you can't just sweep that under the rug. I see the point, though--18 million people voted for Hillary, and Obama needs those votes. Might I suggest Voldemort? It's the exact same demographic, but Voldemort comes with more powers, and plenty of those totally awesome horcruxes to boot.
If I were Obama, I would give certain weight to my own safety. In light of that, I might nominate someone like Al Sharpton--that way everybody knows "if anything happens to me, it's only going to get worse for you." I mean, even Hillary used the word "assassinated" recently, so that's good insight into the mind of racist hicks everywhere.
Finally, a more sensible consideration might be to appease the concerns of aforementioned hicks by nominating a white guy. This would send the message of "Yeah, I'm for change, but nothing crazy." Al Franken, anyone?
On the Republican side, McCain has lots of options. He could secure the Mormon vote with Romney. He could secure the religious right with Huckabee. He could secure the young and all people lacking superior wizarding skills with Voldemort. McCain could secure defeat with Jeb Bush. (That's his brother's fault--Jeb's not so bad.)
If I were McCain, I would go with a governor: Bobby Jindal (Louisiana) or Sarah Palin (Alaska). You can't let the Democrats have a monopoly on diversity, or you're only going to get the elderly, John!
Yes, I know some of the links aren't quite right. It's funny.
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There’s been noted buzz of late on rising GOP star Louisiana Gov Bobby Jindal as a McCain prospective Veep. Certainly Jindal is more than very good, However, I believe there’s some “strategerie” going on here. The “real” beneficiary of the Jindal talk is the other rising GOP star, Alaska Gov Sarah Palin. Palin’s got everything that Jindal has (new/exciting, wildly popular, ethics and spending reformer, core conservative etc.) and more — mother of 5 w/remarkable bio, she’s 8 yrs older than Jindal, Alaska energy issue, and set to garner the disenfranchised female Hillary voter (I don’t believe Dem leaders can dump Obama).
Getting Jindal’s name out first — at Team McCain’s BBQ for instance — sets the stage for the obvious choice, Palin. For example, albeit Rush Limbaugh introduced Palin’s name, and later Jindal’s as good Veep choices, of late Rush has been praising the name of Jindal while on his very same shows discussing at great length the frustrated female Hillary voter and the global warming hysteria/need for energy development, without mentioning Palin’s name as the obvious beneficiary of those two issues. Rush walks a fine line, introducing Palin, yet can’t, at least yet, reiterate much, knowing that his praises may be counter-productive to many a swing, moderate and/or formerly Dem voter (who’s against Obama and switching to McCain). Moreover, while I feel that Palin has more real accomplishment, experience and qualification than Obama (and Hillary combined, albeit w/Obama the bar is pretty low), the only potential argument against Palin is she’s a newbie to the national scene. By having Jindal out there first as a VP prospect “passing” the “experience” and “new to the national scene” test, implicitly passes Palin as well. (For that matter Palin’s got as much if not more experience and accomplishment than Florida Gov Crist who’s only been Gov for 2 yrs — and the media has been touting Crist as a VP prospect.)
That’s my thinking at least.
And, take a look at this YouTube re Sarah Palin –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXfiOSCfY44&eurl=http://palinforvp.blogspot.com/
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