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WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.)
That would be fun...especially if McCain responded by picking Lieberman.
Washington Post
WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.)
if the above comes to pass, it will seem that O sees VA as his path to V.
i'd go for Biden. i really would. O can play in nearly any state, anywhere. get someone to increase the overall power of the ticket -- Biden's superp foreign policy credentials -- and someone who, critically, *knows* Congress, instead of someone who seems to be more of a strategic choice.
And I still want Mittens with McCain, great comedy potential there.
As for Biden, I think he's a reasonably good pick, but he has also really ripped into McCain which I don't think he would have done so openly and explicitly if he were looking for a VP spot. Plus I can totally see him ending up with a very good cabinet position.
McCain considering Eric Cantor
In veep search, McCain asks Cantor for records - Yahoo! News
Cantor has strong support among the party's conservatives, perhaps comforting a segment of the GOP base that has been reluctant to embrace McCain, who has often been at odds with members of his own party on several issues, including a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, federal funds for embryonic stem cell research and campaign finance reform.
Since his four terms in the Virginia House of Delegates starting in the early 1990s, Cantor has been part of the anti-tax wing of Virginia's Republican Party. His longtime advocacy for business and corporate interests in the General Assembly earned Cantor the derisive nickname "Overdog" from Democrats in Richmond.
Cantor is Jewish and is among Israel's most avid congressional supporters. His addition to the ticket could help the GOP win over Jewish votes this year. If McCain wins, Cantor would become the first Jewish vice president.
Cantor also would provide youth to the ticket as McCain turns 72 later this month.
Cantor could provide McCain with an important asset in Virginia, a state that last backed a Democrat for president in 1964 but which both parties are now targeting as a battleground.
"I'm going to want somebody with integrity. I'm going to want somebody with independence -- who's willing to tell me where he thinks, or she thinks, I'm wrong.
You see how Obama gins up that mass hysteria with this kind of talk. The guys dangerous, people, I'm telling you. You gotta watch him!
Who the heck is Eric Cantor?
In other breaking news John McCain just knocked on my neighbor's door and asked him to be VP
Lawmakers and their staffs took golfing trips that Abramoff arranged--and sometimes paid for--to Scotland and the Northern Mariana Islands. Abramoff's now defunct restaurant Signatures was host to more than 60 fund raisers for members of Congress and often neglected to send a bill. At the lobbyist's delicatessen Stacks, Abramoff even named a sandwich after Congressman Eric Cantor at a $500-a-plate fund raiser in January 2003. (Cantor later asked the deli to switch his namesake sandwich from tuna to roast beef on challah, "a deli special that exudes Jewish power," wrote the Jewish newspaper the Forward.)
I don't think there is any way Obama will pick a woman other than Hillary. He still has a left of Hillary supporters who aren't on his side yet and may vote for McCain, and picking a woman would probably only make it worse.
And I disagree that he doesn't need to pick someone with foreign policy/defense experience. I think he desperately needs that.
I think highly enough of our senator that I would support a Bayh/Obama ticket, but that's not how the ballot will read this Fall.
I don't think there's any "silver-bullet" VP for either McCain or Obama
what do you like about Bayh?
i don't know much about him.