The VP choice is a make or break moment for McCain. Will he be clever and creative or will he just pick a hack?
In the aftermath of Barack Obama's uninspiring choice of Joe Biden as his running mate, I have to face the question of whether John McCain will do any better with his Vice Presidential selection.…
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26 - Dave Nalle
Arch, I think you've confused the words 'exponential' and 'incremental'.
As for those who want to dissolve borders and identities, no question they exist. Very few of them are in the Republican Party - one of the things the party has going for it. The globalists in the GOP are business globalists, not global socialists, and they benefit from the competition between distinct and sovereign nations for their jobs and services, so they like the idea of lots of governments and lots of individual countries - even better if they are fighting each other from time to time.
Dave
27 - Arch Conservative
Very few of them are in the Republican Party - one of the things the party has going for it.
Well how many in the GOP have even advocated let alone actually done anything about securing our southern border...I,m not even talking about the illegals that are already here but just preventing more from coming here in the future.
Business globalists/social globalists...it seems to me that both are motivated by nothing but the desire to accumulate more power for themselves..the business guys via money and the socialists via government power over people.
Don't get me wrong I'm all for the free market, competition, merit, and but is it really a good thing when greed overtakes everything and business loses sight of basic humanity?
In any event it's sad to see our supreme court justices citing international law in their opinions, American citizens calling for stays of executions that are in accordance with American law because the international court objects, the UN sending "observers" to monitor our elections etc etc etc
I was 4 years old when Reagan took office and 12 when he left so I don't remember him too much but I'm told he actually believed in limiting the power of the federal government and acted on those beliefs...that's great but what I have seen lately from Bush and the GOP........is the exact opposite
Chuck Baldwin is the only man running that i am aware of that deserves my vote. He is the only who's advocated for cutting back the fed government and leaving it up to the states as our founding fathers intended. He is the only one that would try to secure our border. He wouldn't continue this charade in Iraq that says if we just sacrifice enough American soldiers we will ultimately create a democratic foothold in the middle east muslim world that will pave the way for an amicable relationship between that world and the west for the rest of time.
28 - Zedd
Mc Cain needs to go with a woman. That would be his ticket to the White House. He would sweep up all of the Hillary kookys.
29 - rose
What a joke you all are. Obviously, Mitt Romney is the only choice. Obama made a critical mistake that will lose him the Presidency. He chose someone who cannot give him one thing. Only Hillary would have given Obama the Presidency. As for McCain, to chose anyone other than Mitt Romney would give the Democrats a leg up. No one has as much to offer as Romney in intelligence, leadership, economic prowess, integrity. By the way, for you dummies who keep saying he's changed back and forth.... to change once is not "back and forth". Please any of you pointing that stick stand up and tell me you have never changed your mind on anything. To say so indicates you have never grown or learned anything. While Romney has always been a true conservative, he was elected to a Liberal state (which says a lot) although to be a Governor, you have to represent your constituents. He pulled Massachusetts out of a deficit just like Ronald Reagan did in California so many years ago. He pulled the Winter Olympics out of a terrible deficit and scandal and Utah came out smelling like a rose. Romney never took a penny for his work in either situation. Unlike most, if not all politicians today, he doesn't need the money. He truly feels he can help our country. He has a good, wholesome American family that most of us would love to use as a role model.
Get your head out and see Romney for the great leader he is and stop this absurd attack. He is McCain's best choice... and perhaps his only choice.
Rose
Dallas
30 - Jordan Richardson
Obama made a critical mistake that will lose him the Presidency. He chose someone who cannot give him one thing. Only Hillary would have given Obama the Presidency. As for McCain, to chose anyone other than Mitt Romney would give the Democrats a leg up.
pick Romney, nobody wins? Cool!
So basically, if McCain
31 - Dr Dreadful
By the way, for you dummies who keep saying he's changed back and forth.... to change once is not "back and forth".
I don't think anyone mentioned Romney's many changes of position on this thread until you brought it up, Rose. But I don't think it's going back and forth that's the concern so much as it is his shifts across such a huge range of issues. FYI, here's a good summary of the most egregious ones, with links.
While Romney has always been a true conservative, he was elected to a Liberal state (which says a lot) although to be a Governor, you have to represent your constituents.
To be a truly good governor, one would have thought you must represent your constituents both before and after they elect you. Unfortunately, the pattern that emerges in Romney's case is of sucking up to his constituents until safely ensconced in the governor's mansion, then reverting to conservative type.
I do agree with you, though, that Romney is McCain's only viable choice. Otherwise, it's half a dozen 'who?'s and a Democrat.
Well, we'll know one way or the other by this time tomorrow.
32 - bliffle
At least Romney has operated a business and had financial responsibility, presumably meeting a few payrolls along the way. that's what we used to demand of a Republican candidate, back in The Old Days. I suppose that's old fashioned, now that Deficits Don't Matter, even in the Republican playbook.
Obama hasn't run a business, but he sure looks like a savvy executive, the way he's run his campaign, so far.
McCains minor exploits reforming a navy squadron are touted by his fans, but it sounds like just a straw-boss mule-skinning operation, to me.
33 - Jewels
"Mc Cain needs to go with a woman. That would be his ticket to the White House. He would sweep up all of the Hillary kookys."
That's funny, yet holds some substance. Really, if McCain's a true maverick, Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin should be the pick.