Chris Christie WILL NOT Be the Republican VP Candidate

[Spike Trader]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

Romney cant pick Christie ,Portman has to many ties to Bush,Rubio has to much baggage and controversy

377 or pspr wont be any good either. . . .

 

[Grandluxe]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

Yes,but picking a VP that held 2 major economic positions in Bush's cabinet for 8 years can make it a much bigger issue especially where Obama needs it most,the economy,debts and deficits

Portmens last cabinet position under Bush





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Give it up, buddy.

If Bush ran today against Obama, Bush would win. Whatever your opinions on President Bush, he did not ruin the financial livelihoods of Americans, sure some people were upset with his foreign policy, but by and large IRAQ had NOTHING to do with Americans ability to put food on the table. It had virtually no impact on people's personal fortunes. Most Americans did not care and do not even know where Iraq is on a fucking map. The only thing they do know is they had much better lives under President Bush than Obama, they had their homes, they could do their groceries without resorting to food stamps, they had JOBS, they could pay for their kids college education. All this is gone now under Obama. The only crazies who are obsessed with Bush, Iraq and Guantanamo are either hippies or foreigners like Europeans and Canadians.

So give it up.

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from Grandluxe:

Give it up, buddy.

If Bush ran today against Obama, Bush would win.

If that were true Jeb would have ran

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from tomdavis:

Romney is unlikely to do anything surprising/risky at this point, though Susan Martinez (Gov, NM) supposedly is being thoroughly vetted right now. She would be an interesting choice, but she's definitley a longshot. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswe...-new-mexico-s-governor-can-teach-the-gop.html

Pawlenty is the safe (and most likely) choice.

I agree.Romney has to pick somebody who appeals to conservatives and doesn't turn off independents imo.Pawlenty fits the bill

 

[mrbill]

Christie had his 15 minutes, along with the other crazies like Mr. 999 and, oh lawd Santorum. What a group. What a group.

 

[tradingjournals]

Quote from JamesL:



Anyone who still believes that he will be on the ticket this year is simply delusional.

Even chrisfatman knows the ticket would be a loser, that seems to be the conclusion.

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

I agree.Romney has to pick somebody who appeals to conservatives and doesn't turn off independents imo.Pawlenty fits the bill

+1

Pawlenty is even a welcome guest on MSNBC, Maddow no less. They don't try to bury him. He is a rational conservative.

 

[piezoe]

Quote from tomdavis:

Romney is unlikely to do anything surprising/risky at this point, though Susan Martinez (Gov, NM) supposedly is being thoroughly vetted right now. She would be an interesting choice, but she's definitley a longshot. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswe...-new-mexico-s-governor-can-teach-the-gop.html

Pawlenty is the safe (and most likely) choice.

That might be Romney's best strategy -- a woman with an Hispanic last name on the ticket, as long as she is not too obviously unqualified, such as McCain's running mate turned out to be. I don't know anything about Martinez, but chances are good that she is fluent in Spanish, a huge asset! Combine that with being a female and you have a tremendous voter draw potential, assuming she is well liked in New Mexico and is seen to have done a good job there.

Would Romney making a good choice for a running mate be considered surprising? For his sake, I would hope not.

 

[trefoil]

Quote from RCG Trader:

+1

Pawlenty is even a welcome guest on MSNBC, Maddow no less. They don't try to bury him. He is a rational conservative.

Don't know much about this guy, but on the assumption he is sane, he would therefore have no chance. They need a firebreather. Both parties almost always put one in as veep, so the top guy can be sane & rational for the middle, while the veep candidate keeps the base happy.
They'd be nuts to do it any differently.

 

[piezoe]

Quote from trefoil:

Don't know much about this guy, but on the assumption he is sane, he would therefore have no chance. They need a firebreather. Both parties almost always put one in as veep, so the top guy can be sane & rational for the middle, while the veep candidate keeps the base happy.
They'd be nuts to do it any differently.

Joel Osteen them. He's perfect, gets 100% of the base and a closet lunatic to boot.

The girls love him!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505270_162-57359651/osteen-romney-believer-in-christ-like-me/

If I may interject a serious note here, it could just be that the best Republican strategy of all would be to use this election, which is lost anyway, to jettison the lunatics in their base and go back to their core principles of an earlier day. "No man can serve two masters."