Senator Barack Obama has decided to name Senator Joseph Biden as his choice for Vice President. This is probably the best choice Obama could have made, aside from Senator Hillary Clinton. Joe Biden offers a wealth of both perceived and actual experience on foreign policy, as well as domestic issues. He has far more experience than Obama in political service. So much so, that it's actually funny to see the ticket as Obama/Biden rather than Biden/Obama. The latter seems to be much more logical.
I don't know that Biden can really make up for Obama's lack of experience. In fact, I think Biden only increases the awareness of it. Moreover, Biden also respresents the style of old-school politics that Obama was claiming to be "above." I believe that Biden was the correct choice for Obama politically, but I think it's the best of a bad situation.
Now the focus is on who Senator John McCain will choose for his Vice Presidential candidate. In my opinion, McCain needs to pick someone who is a strong social conservative, as well as someone who is fresh and charismatic.
My opinion that Governor Mike Huckabee would be the absolute perfect choice, considering his humor, intellect, charm and charisma. However, McCain doesn't want to go in that direction, so I think his choice is down to two people: Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney. If McCain picks Pawlenty, then you can expect a pretty bland reception from people. Quite frankly, he is another Sam Brownback. No spark and no passion shows through his personality.
Mitt Romney is not one of my favorite politicians by far. Not because of his Mormonism, but because of his nasty style of politics, even to his fellow Republicans. He ripped both McCain and Huckabee with very unfair attacks in the Republican Primaries. However, I think his debating skills are pretty good and he is pretty sharp and on his toes. He's also a very "rich" looking guy, sort of like John Kerry is. He just screams "millionaire" when you look at him, and I don't think that will help McCain's chances at all.
If McCain is going to choose one of these two guys, I would go with Romney even though he wouldn't be very helpful (only slightly more helpful than Pawlenty). He's at least interesting to listen to.
Hopefully McCain will surprise us all and pick someone with great people skills, along with charm, charisma, intellect, humility, etc.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Obama Picks Biden for his VP Pick - Who Will McCain Choose?
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If McCAIN has a shred of intelligence, he'll ask Huckabee to be his VP.
Despite the Dems and the allied main stream media’s desperation to see Romney as McCain’s Veep, Mitt is clearly out, with (1) Obama doubling down on the class warfare theme (McCain’s 7 houses) and (2) McCain doubling down with ads showing the hypocrisy of Biden attacking Obama in the primaries — Romney did way more than that contra McCain.
This leaves only Govs Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty. Pro-abortion Ridge and Dem-Lieberman were never real considerations, despite relentless media goading. Pawlenty’s lackluster TV performances, coupled with Palin pizzazz, the primacy of oil drilling and the ticked off women/Hillary voters, does now portend a McCain/Palin checkmate on the Dems. This is so albeit the Dems and liberal media dare not mention Palin’s name, that is, everyone but…..
And if there’s any question as to Palin being uniquely positioned and able to more than nullify Biden in debate, see the excellent discussion at palinforvp.blogspot.com
Team McCain, well done!!!
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