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Teaos wrote:I don't think Colin is tainted. He could be a huge asset to McCain. Hell I'd like to see Colin as president but that wont happen.

After standing up in front of everybody and going on about WMDs?

Still he has a record of backing McCain and Powell has a recent history of being rather critical of Bush. McCain could try for it.

But if he does I promise you commercials with ominous music while he talks about Iraq and WMDs.

Yeah, even though Powell has done some things to distance himself from Bush, he was still inevitably tied to the administration - and more importantly, to one of the stupidest and most dishonest things it had done. It's gonna take a lot of showers before Powell gets that stink off of him.

Would anybody else be surprised to see another somewhat maverick Republican as McCain's veep nod - someone like Specter, if not him precisely?

Hell no one is more Maverock than Ron Paul, he's often the only one to vote against a bill.

True, but I meant someone who is still more than just technically within the GOP.

McCain needs someone who can secure the party base and also not alienate the swing voters.

Teaos wrote:McCain needs someone who can secure the party base and also not alienate the swing voters.

Wel that definitly isn't Ron Paul then.

Would my garbage man do?

Anybody think he would pick somebody that would make it interesting? Like Jesse Ventura? Or CA Gov. Arnold?
As a longtime Republican, I think this will be an easy election to win, as the Dems are actually going to send out as the champion, a guy who has won
all of 2 states that mean anything in the Electoral College. Thanks Dems. Some of the tradionally Blue states are now "who knows"?
I hope that Obama does win the nomination, as Hillary is the one I fear. She won over most of the signifigant Electoral College states over on
the Dem side. She would have no problem keeping them on her side come the fall. Obama on the other hand, he is like 7-UP: Never had it, Never will.
I have been a Republican since I came of voting age in 1992, and I must say, I see this as rather easy. This is why I think McCain could get away with
picking somebody like Ventura or Arnold. If this were a real election, rather than an easy one, I would think he would have to choose a better guy.

Actually, Arnold can't be VP because he is not a natural born American. No one in line for the presidency can be from another country.

Don't write Obama off yet. He lost to Hillary not McCain. There is a lot of anti republican sentiment out there, and the war is unpopular. This is not an election to screw around.

Huh?
Obama hasn't lost to Hillary. Could you explain?

stitch626 wrote:Huh?
Obama hasn't lost to Hillary. Could you explain?

While ahead overall Obama hasn't won every single state.

Now in the US the president isn't elected by just who got the most votes.

Instead states are won or lost as a whole. It doesn't matter if you win with 51% of the vote or 90%. Now some states always go Republican, and some states always go Democrat and then there are the "battleground" states they go back and forth and ultimatly decide the election.

Obama has been losing to Hillary in some key battleground states. Which is why some people worry about his ability to win in the general election.

Oh, ok.
Makes sense. I don't really care who wins, I was just confused, like always.

McCains VP? The Morman git, that way he'll definetely lose the election.

For an effective one, Obama. It gives a chance for actual reconcilation in American politics. And Obama is good at getting both sides to agree on policy.

Can that happen?
I mean, if Obama wins the Democratic nomination, could he and McCain join together?
Or are you saying if he loses?