Comments on: McCain Should Think Of Legacy In VP Choice

The New Republic: Running Mate Probably Won't Help Candidacy But Could Secure His Vision

[irliberal]

"McCain Should Think Of Legacy In VP Choice"

Oh, please.

McCain should think of what retirement home he''s going to be living in in 2009.

[joyous88]

you need to get your dictionary out and look up fascist,

you might find a photo of McBushSame or cheney,

but you will find a description of the current republicon party

[afmca]

McCain should appoint Cheney to head up his search committee. He could then decide to nominate himself for VP again. Cheney''s agenda of totally destroying America is not yet complete; he could use the next 4 to 8 years to completely destroy the Constitution and impoverish all but the super rich.

Cheney''s goal from his first term energy meeting has finally come to fruition as his boy-toy Bush now is looking to give Big Oil their final gift .. rights to drill off-shore oil for penny on the dollar leases.

[ianlou]

There have only been two vice presidents elected after their bosses sucsessfully completed their terms, George HW Bush after Ronald Reagan and John Adams after George Washington, Death or Impeachment put the rest in office.

[afmca]

McCain and America need to realize that McCain''s VP choice will probably become the President if McCain is somehow elected. McCain is old with many infirmities and the pressures of the Presidency will just heighten these medical and age issues; not decrease them. Nobody knows how many functioning brain cells Reagan had at the end of his 2nd term but it is obvious that Alzhimers had already started to affect him. I think this is a major reason why McCain should not be elected.

[oneworldusa]

SubTitle: The New Republic: "Running Mate Probably Won''''t Help Candidacy But Could Secure His Vision "

Oh? Is his vision getting bad? ---

Posted by ubrew12 at 02:43 PM : Jun 17, 2008

LOL. My initial thought exactly. Leaning towards an optometrist? Good, maybe his vision will be clearer than Baby Bush''s.

[ausus-2009]

In the 1961 election, some people argued that the Vice-Presidential choices were better than their running mates. There is little doubt Henry Cabot Lodge would have been a better president than Nixon while in different circumstances Johnson could have been viewed as one of the great presidents.

[samthetvcat]

-----"Since World War II, ten men have received the Republican nomination for vice president. Three of those men continued on to win the presidential nomination for themselves, and two actually became president. Meanwhile, a fourth nominee, Thomas Dewey''s running mate Earl Warren, rose to arguably even greater power as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court."-----

That''s what the pundits have noted on tv - that Republicans tend to like the hierarchy and find comfort in the ''next in line'' feeder system.

But have Republican Presidential nominees in the past acted as king-makers to MAKE VP nominees the next person in line, or did they make their pick amongst a pool of people who were already seen as next in line and they picked from that bunch?

If there''s no clear answer then I guess it''s like that which came first the chicken or the egg thingie . . . but if they were all next in liners to begin with, then isn''t ticket balance by picking a Huckabee or a Romney making a statement about McCain''s vision of where the future of the party is headed? I would guess Republican voters think so, and my sense is that McCain resents the fact that he''s not being given the liberty to establish his own vision different from the one established by Bush (?)

[ausus-2009]

joyous88 et al,

If you keep calling Republicans jailbirds and Nazis, it just shows you have nothing intelligent to add to the conversation.

Both major parties have had their extremists and criminals.

The parties and the various pressure groups will find enough dirt on both candidates to make this a grubby election without you lowering the tone of it further.

[ioweign]

McCain Should Think Of Legacy In VP Choice


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