GOP VP thread: Palin is the pick

Umm, you remember those 50 primaries earlier this year? Yeah, millions of people voted. That's how we chose the presidential candidates.

EDIT: Yes, I realize that's not how VP candidates are chosen. But it's still too Orwellian for my tastes. I hate secretive governments.

 

Lyman, I'm just speaking for myself, but I applaud McCain's audacity and as a political junkie I find this pick just about the most amazing thing I've seen since Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California. I admire Palin and what she represents (hopefully the future of the GOP), but the dynamics of this thing are incredible. We are at the end of the Bush/Clinton era in politics. No more talk about Whitewater, drugs, going AWOL, blowjobs and cigars. And I couldn't be more pleased.

And one other thing Lyman, none of McCain's staff were willing to be named in that WashPo story. I don't know why they wouldn't want to make their boss look good on the record, but I guess they may have their reasons.

 

Hate to tell you this, lyman. but if you're counting 20 months as governor as "executive experience" your VP candidate has more "executive expierence" that your presidential candidate.

And, again, if anyone thinks any VP candidate has enough pull to sway the elaction, they are sadly mistaken.
Tell me, any of you, the last time your presidential vote went to the person with the best running mate.
NEVER!

 

To be fair, Buck, no-one voted Biden into becoming VP. He was picked by Obama's selection commitee.

 

He's not talking about vice presidential candidates, only presidential ones.

 

Not nearly to this extent, IIRC. Not around here, certainly.

Who was the last senator to be elected president? LBJ? Typically, governors have had more success at the ballot box than senators. Executive-to-executive moves, not legislative-to-executive. Although certainly, signing or vetoing a bill isn't exactly rocket science.

BTW, Biden also doesn't have executive experience. I wonder the last time all four prinicpals in an election had so little of it.

 

What would you do, then? Take the runner-up in each party and make them the VP candidate? (Which is not necessarily a bad idea.)

 

Harding and JFK are the only sitting senators to be elected president.

 

Wow, you are even dumber than I thought.

 

I'm with you on a lot of that. As for the no-names thing, that didn't strike me as unusual.

And spinited is right -- I really don't think the VP makes a hell of a lot of difference one way or the other. (Look at Quayle.) But maybe other people don't agree.

 

Executive experience?

Define that, Lyman. Of course, you can't.

 

[blue] I was going to vote for Dukakis in 1988 until he selected Lloyd Bentsen. [/blue] ;D