Romney for VP?

(March 12, 2008) – Like I was sayin… if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.  I saw articles this morning indicating that Romney was open to being on a McCain Romney ticket.

In an interview yesterday, Romney indicated that he would do anything to help McCain become president including running as the VP.

I believe this would help and hurt McCain.  Romney would add the conservative values item to the ticket as well as his speaking/debating skills.  He has also done the health-care thing in his state without having the government run it.

Negatives would the “guy most likely to lay you off” tag that dems will try to hang on him.  There will also be attempts to bring up the Mormon thing.

I would also like to see McCain wait until there is a dem candidate.  Depending upon the winner in that contest, the obvious choices could change.  I would imagine that if Obama wins, there will be a push to add an African American to the ticket and likewise a woman if Hillary wins.

I don’t think that adding an African American will help much as they will be most likely branded as not “black” enough since they would be a republican.  But, it would take some of the vote of people who would vote for Obama just because he is African American (not that he doesn’t deserve their votes, just that some people in both parties don’t look too deep when selecting a candidate to vote for).

In any case, McCain will need to add somebody that would help fire up the conservative base who might otherwise sit this one out.  It should be an interesting 6 months.

If they can’t get a primary right, can they run the country?

(March 11, 2008) – Like I was sayin… some times you just have to keep trying until you get it right.

I have commented before about the whole super delegate thing.  I can’t believe that the dems actually put together a process that can be used to over-ride what the votes want.  It bothers me that they believe that is a fair process.

Then I see that they are trying to figure out how to get the MI and FL primary issues resolved.  First the DNC tells MI and FL if they move their primaries, the delegates don’t count.  Everybody agreed and the votes happened.  Being behind, the Clinton camp is pushing now for those votes to be counted.  They have a slim argument in FL, but in MI, Clinton was the only candidate on the ballot.

The real concern is that they are willing to make a bad decision that excludes the votes of some of the largest states and then afterward decide that maybe that isn’t such a good idea.  Did they not see this coming?

I am not saying that political parties don’t/can’t make mistakes, but this was a big one.  It will be interesting to see how this gets resolved.