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Bobby Jindal.

He’s the type of conservative that really is conservative and is still well liked by moderates. Effective and passionate speaker. Very effective administrator, as his history shows. All around righteous dude.

I can’t think of any downsides.

lzny - 22 March 2008 09:03 PM

Possible names on economic and business policy:

John Chambers: Cisco Corporation
John Thain: Former head of NYSE, former partner at Goldman Sachs now White Knight at Merril Lynch
Art Laffer: The Laffer curve
Ed Hyman: ISI

The list could go on and on. I would be curious who others would like to see.

Steve Forbes

nc stryker mom - 23 March 2008 12:14 AM

And might I add, I hope it is Condi Rice.

No thanks. Somewhere along the line Condi forgot that Israel was our friend. She is pushing them into Armageddon.

Del Dolemonte - 23 March 2008 12:14 AM

Two possible McCain running mates…

1. Rudy Giuliani.
2. Joe Lieberman.

While I like both and even voted for Rudy in my primary here in Florida, I don’t believe either would be a good choice. Rudy has some baggage issues and will not unite the conservative base. Joe is a Democrat other than on the GWOT. I like him. I respect him. But he is as much as a RINO (although an independent)as McCain is. Again, he won’t unite the conservative base. 

MikeMangum - 23 March 2008 09:52 AM

Bobby Jindal.

He’s the type of conservative that really is conservative and is still well liked by moderates. Effective and passionate speaker. Very effective administrator, as his history shows. All around righteous dude.

I can’t think of any downsides.

I think the world of Bobby Jindal, but I think he needs to stay where he is. Louisianna needs him and he needs to prove himself and anyone who can straighten out the mess they have in Louisianna can certainly be President of the United States one day.

I don’t think that McCain needs to name anyone at this time. It is too early and will give the MSM too much time to destroy whoever it is.

I think that he needs to be announcing who some of his advisors are and work on keeping them in the spotlight as well.

Although he is out of the race, Rudy did pick some great people and he posted about them here at PL some time ago. These are some of the people that McCain needs to surround himself with.

Note: I was going to post some of the links from Rudy’s section here at PL, but I just noticed that the candidates forum is no longer there. Good grief! How long has that been gone?

"No” on Condi - her handling of the current Israeli-Palestinian problem is just awful. She shows no backbone.

We need backbone, belief, and an internal security to withstand no matter what is slung at us. We don’t need any milque-toast (Graham). Liberman won’t pull any votes - McCain probably has those.

I go for younger and/or female and/or non-WASP male.
Personally, I like Bobby Jindal - if chosen, we need to keep LA in Republican hands. I also like Sarah Palin of AK - now there’s someone with guts. Problem is, both these states are small.

Jindal is sharp!!! I’m tired of identity politics.

I like Condi, but she’s too closely tied to Bush.  Even now, when McCain’s name is mentioned, Bush’s usually follows.  I don’t think McCain should select anybody associated with this administration.

By the way, I gently nudged my daughter to select Condi for a biography she had to write, so I was able to read all about her childhood.  Condi is an extremely intelligent, talented and disciplined woman.  I don’t think she’s devious enough for her position, though.

Senator McCain ...

MUST pick his running mate several weeks prior to the convention - been sayin’ that for ages.  In the meantime, he should be very public about being seen with a variety of possible candidates in order to gauge the reaction of the voting public.

Most of the names I’ve read here you can discount from the gate - but it HAS to be someone with a national reputation and name recognition.

I personally don’t think that Obambi has a prayer in a racist church’s chance of being elected, but it wouldn’t hurt to get a jump on the November ballot while the Dems are still gnawing on each other.

The ONLY negative I see is it gives the MSM a chance to divert attention from the Hillary / Obambi smack around.

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Senator McCain is walking a VERY tight rope.  It would be a mistake to name a running mate this early, the Democrats have more damage to do to each other, let them do it.

Right now, it will be the Democrats that will elect Senator McCain.  The Republican Party used to have a conservative branch.  Since the capture of the Hose and Senate in ’94, they have thrown us (at least me) out of the party.  They want our vote, but address none of our concerns.  For me these consist of eliminating McCain/Feingold, securing (no, I mean REALLY SECURING) the border, keeping GITMO open and NEVER giving terrorists civil rights in the U.S., recognizing the foolishness of Kyoto and man made global warming, a constructionist Supreme Court, making Bush’s tax cuts permanent, committing to using and developing OUR natural resources (ANWR, costal areas, coal of Montana, nuclear power) and, of course, the continued and aggressive prosecution of all Islamofacist terrorists no mater where they are found.

With the exception of the last item, Senator McCain, and the Republican Party, are lukewarm on ALL these issues.  Conservatives like me will NOT vote for Senator McCain.  The ONLY thing that would sway me toward the Republican Presidential ticket is a true conservative pick for VP.  My choices would be JC Watts, John Kasich, Rick Santorum, or some other true conservative.

However, in listening to Senator McCain, I notice he chooses his words very carefully.  As to the border, he says “we must secure the border” yet confesses he will sign McCain/Lieberman if presented to him.  While he talks about making the Bush tax cuts permanent, he backs away from a no-new taxes pledge saying he doesn’t want to make his candidacy about taxes.  No commitment about developing our natural resources, no commitment about GITMO (other than closing it), no commitment about finding a way to eliminate his own campaign finance bill.  To me, it shows he believes that moving left of center was the right choice and the only choice he has to get elected.

He is NOT a conservative, has NEVER been a conservative and NEVER WILL BE a conservative.  But, with a running mate that runs far to the right of center (never thought my views above would ever be considered far right), he might have a chance.  And, depending on the chemistry displayed during the campaign, I could be persuaded to vote for the ticket.

He won’t choose a conservative running mate thought.  His trip to the Mideast and Europe was illustrative, he took Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman – my first two suspects that I believe are on his short list.  And, as much a leftist as Senator McCain.

I still have not changed my thoughts.  Fred Thompson is my guy and I will write him in.  When the Republican’s want to find their roots, they know where I am.

It’s probably a tad too early to pick a running mate, but it’s never too early to associate yourself with credible advisers: Gramm, Laffer, Kemp, etc. 

As far as potential running mates go, however, McCain’s credibility with core conservative Republican voters is already strained without associating himself with new-leftie-RINO Lindsey Graham and Democrat-except-on-National-Defense Joe Lieberman.  When people started floating Charlie Crist’s name, I could already see the ads superimposing a bottle of Geritol over the photos of the white-haired duo (I know he’s only 51, but he has white hair - this is a media battle, remember).  If McCain could see fit to forgive the Vietnamese for his POW ordeal, why can’t he make nice with Mitt Romney?  Instant conservative credibility and economic depth.  I think Obama’s Jeremiah-Wright-moment takes any Mormon issue off the table.

Hint to Republican Party: clean up your own house.  I send every fund raising request back in the postage-paid envelope empty except for my scrawl in black marker: END EARMARKS.  FIRE JERRY LEWIS (R-CA) FROM APPROPRIATIONS, PUT JEFF FLAKE ON IN HIS PLACE.

WEP, Esq.
Long Island, NY

Del Dolemonte - 23 March 2008 12:14 AM

Two possible McCain running mates…

1. Rudy Giuliani. He’s just “progressive” enough to attract a certain voting bloc, and also has the 9/11 mystique that failed him in his run for the top job, but just might be good enough for the sidekick position.

2. Joe Lieberman. He’s an “Independent”, but in reality is a Dem (check his voting record).

Joe is perhaps the ONLY Dem who actually “gets it” re. the battle we’re facing against the bad guys, He’s been soundly ridiculed by the “tolerant” Democrat Kool-Aid drinkers, who were even racist enough to depict him in blackface in 2006.

He was tossed under the bus by people who were supposed to be tolerant of other opinions, but in fact would make Goebbels proud.

And remember, these are the same college kids who call Bush and Cheney “Nazis”.

the greatest threat to the United States is not from the terrorists.

it IS from the deomcrat party (or traitors).