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10 Apr 2012, 10:41 am

Who do you think will or should be Mitt Romney's Vice President?

Let the debate begin!



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10 Apr 2012, 10:52 am

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10 Apr 2012, 11:13 am

Probably someone whose ancestors didn't side with Lucifer or whose ancestors sided with neither Jesus or Lucifer.


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10 Apr 2012, 11:15 am

Alexender wrote:
Trump


Excellent Choice!

A lot of people were speculating that Mr. Etchasketch was going to switch from pretending to be a mean, nasty conservative (to win the nomination) to pretending to be a goody-two-shoes liberal (to win the presidency), and that he should select a mean and nasty conservative to sooth mean and nasty Republican voters, while Romney wooed other people.

Donald Trump can play mean and nasty, and he does enjoy firing people.

I may be mistaken, but I think that Donald Trump was also in favour of health-care reform at one time, before it became de rigueur for "conservatives" to oppose health care reform.



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10 Apr 2012, 12:00 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:
Alexender wrote:
Trump


Excellent Choice!

A lot of people were speculating that Mr. Etchasketch was going to switch from pretending to be a mean, nasty conservative (to win the nomination) to pretending to be a goody-two-shoes liberal (to win the presidency), and that he should select a mean and nasty conservative to sooth mean and nasty Republican voters, while Romney wooed other people.

Donald Trump can play mean and nasty, and he does enjoy firing people.

I may be mistaken, but I think that Donald Trump was also in favour of health-care reform at one time, before it became de rigueur for "conservatives" to oppose health care reform.


Thats a good point.
But the trouble is that you cant forget the religous right.
And you cant have two eastern establishment plutocrats (two eastern seaboard rich guys) on the same ticket.

Gotta have someone from the heartland, or from the West, with the common touch.
Thats why McCain had a Palin as his running mate.

Trouble is its hard to find someone from the religous right who doesnt piss off the middle of road swing voters.

Ideally the person should be a protestant, and a non Mormon.

Theyre gonna have to find an unknown black (or hispanic) woman evangelical from the midwest or the west to fill the role. Good luck finding that person!



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10 Apr 2012, 12:06 pm

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Ideally the person should be a protestant, and a non Mormon.

!


How about a Quaker? Or an ex-Catholic?

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10 Apr 2012, 12:26 pm

Jon Huntsman


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10 Apr 2012, 12:40 pm

Mitt Romney should be assassinated.



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10 Apr 2012, 12:41 pm

What ever option he feels that will give him the best chance at eternal celestial sex.


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10 Apr 2012, 12:44 pm

Michelle Bachmann


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10 Apr 2012, 12:58 pm

George Pataki.



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10 Apr 2012, 1:02 pm

The Governator


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10 Apr 2012, 1:09 pm

Another peep from the shallow end. But coming off a 4 day weekend, I'll bite.

It's presumptuous to talk about Romney's VP. First, he doesn't have the nomination, yet--though I concede that it is looking increasingly likely. But second, and more importantly, he has to get elected.

Romney's between a rock and a hard place. If he campaigns toward the centre to fight Obama in the swing states, then he risks alienating the conservative base, and causing them to sit on their hands. That puts a number of close states back in play. On the other hand, if he shores up that base, he will create a huge problem for himself in the swing states.


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10 Apr 2012, 1:13 pm

ZX_SpectrumDisorder wrote:
Mitt Romney should be assassinated.


you're probably the only voter in America with any kind of passion about Mitt Romney!

Negative or positive!



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10 Apr 2012, 1:14 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
ZX_SpectrumDisorder wrote:
Mitt Romney should be assassinated.


you're probably the only voter in America with any kind of passion about Mitt Romney!

Negative or positive!
:lol: :lol: :lol:

In about every other episode of the colbert report a comment is made about how he drove with his dog on top of his car.


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10 Apr 2012, 1:17 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
ArrantPariah wrote:
Alexender wrote:
Trump


Excellent Choice!

A lot of people were speculating that Mr. Etchasketch was going to switch from pretending to be a mean, nasty conservative (to win the nomination) to pretending to be a goody-two-shoes liberal (to win the presidency), and that he should select a mean and nasty conservative to sooth mean and nasty Republican voters, while Romney wooed other people.

Donald Trump can play mean and nasty, and he does enjoy firing people.

I may be mistaken, but I think that Donald Trump was also in favour of health-care reform at one time, before it became de rigueur for "conservatives" to oppose health care reform.


Thats a good point.
But the trouble is that you cant forget the religous right.
And you cant have two eastern establishment plutocrats (two eastern seaboard rich guys) on the same ticket.

Gotta have someone from the heartland, or from the West, with the common touch.
Thats why McCain had a Palin as his running mate.

Trouble is its hard to find someone from the religous right who doesnt piss off the middle of road swing voters.

Ideally the person should be a protestant, and a non Mormon.

Theyre gonna have to find an unknown black (or hispanic) woman evangelical from the midwest or the west to fill the role. Good luck finding that person!


Plus, Donald Trump is an atheist. A Mormon President and an atheist VP--Jerry Falwell will be turning over in his grave. On the other hand, Ronald Reagan was also an atheist, who did a convincing enough job of faking Christianity to beat an actual Christian.

We haven't had an ostensively non-Christian president since Thomas Jefferson, from way back when the Intellectual Elite was ostensively intellectual.