McCain-Petraeus: How Sarah Palin Dole Paul’s Alaska to Obama
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John Nance Garner, who held the position of vice-president under Franklin Roosevelt, memorably dismissed the job as “not worth a pitcher of warm spit”.
Actually, that is the sanitised version of his comment. There are plenty of people who believe that the original version referred to a different bodily liquid. Put it this way: he might have been taking the spit out of this office.
John McCain, by contrast, has to regard it far more seriously. He is within a few days of becoming the de facto nominee of the Republican Party. Mike Huckabee is enjoying his swansong, but after the primaries in Maryland and Virginia tomorrow this contest will be over.
The Democratic dogfight will continue for some weeks yet, with the calendar favouring Barack Obama throughout February then Hillary Clinton in March and probably April. If Democrats are lucky, this race will be settled in Ohio and Texas on March 4. If those states split in their verdicts, then Pennsylvania on April 22 will serve as the Gettysburg.
While all that is going on, the one matter of interest on the Republican side is whom Mr McCain will opt to put forward as vice-president. Ladbrokes has already opened a book on the subject, with Mr Huckabee installed as favourite and Charlie Crist, the Governor of Florida, and Tim Pawlenty, Governor of Minnesota, next. The competition, though, is totally open. No one has a compelling claim.
It is, however, an even more important decision for Mr McCain than usual for presidential candidates for three reasons.
The first is that George W. Bush, via Dick Cheney, has revolutionised the post itself. To be US vice-president was, as Nance Garner implied, to have the largest non-job on the planet. Even when the present President’s father was VP under Ronald Reagan, it consisted mostly of attending the funerals of foreign dignitaries (Bush Sr quipped that “you die, I fly” was the vice-presidential motto).
When Dan Quayle was VP he virtually had to beg the White House to provide him with chores to do (this was wisely resisted). Mr Cheney, on the other hand, has shown that the vice-president can be the deputy president and has acted accordingly. It is hard to conceive that this portfolio will retreat to irrelevance again.
Secondly, to put it bluntly, there is Mr McCain’s age. He will be 72 come polling day. The chance that he might die in office is there and will be discussed. Whoever he selects to be a potential VP has to be perceived as capable of serving as commander- in-chief at a moment’s notice.
Finally, there is the politics of this election. The Democrats have the stardust factor this November. Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama have become huge figures. Their battle will make them seem yet bigger as it intensifies.
If she wins (still the more likely result in my view), Mr Obama will have done well enough to compel her to offer him the No 2 slot in order to preserve party unity (despite their obvious personal animosity and the fact that it does not make much strategic sense) and I suspect that he will accept it. If he wins, the reverse is less likely; but if it is not Mrs Clinton then the temptation to put another woman senator or governor on the ticket will be vast. This is what Mr McCain must assume that he will be facing.
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Hey intelligentpersian.
your grammar sucks!
What about John McCain’s warm association with John Hagee who said the Catholic church is a “Whore” and that Jews were going to hell for not believing in GOD, did we go from BUSH3 the sequel to John “Hypocrite” McCain…..
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jimop3,
No wonder why a total fraud like Hillary can be second in line for nomination. As long as we Americans remain the most ignorant and stupid nation on the face of the earth that you have demonstrated here, we deserve total frauds like Hillary, Bush, Reagan or McCain as our president.
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Your comment of “if you love America, vote for Hillary” is a very familiar fear tactic that fascists Republicans for a century mongering that “not voting for GOP is un-patriotic”. Well, I don’t blame you because of your foolishness and stupidity, I blame Hillary that step by step following footprint of GOP in fear mongering and fooling uneducated foolish people like you. It is so sad.
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A few years ago, two parents went out for dinner. A few hours later, the babysitter was calling to ask if she could cover up the clown statue in the kids’ room, the father said,”Take the kids and get out of the house. We’ll call the police, we don’t have a clown statue.” The “clown statue” is really a killer that escaped from jail. If you don’t post this letter on to 10 videos tonight, the clown will be in your bed at 3:00 am with a chainsaw in his hand
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i foundt his on utube. i was shocked.
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It was, ahem, sarcasm.
hes not an amir look at his broke ass place man an amir wouldnt dress like dat or sit on the floor
Who is this the emir of Dubai? And WTF is he talking about Alaska politics?
FreeHeathen
You never know,
My network has a guranteed 500k voted to vote and will vote sure if god forbid ron paul conned. I will give my 500k to the dogs.
i mean trouble really.
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I also want Ron Paul to win the candidacy and eventually the presidency, but its not likely to happen
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FreeHeathen
Ron Paul is not is an out sourced candiate as obama who will be ordered to ” set doggy set.. good dog ” or “driving miss daisy in the white House”
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FreeHeathen
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dude ur such an idiot, just shut up, honestly u have noooo clue what american politics is dude…..