I was hoping for great fun watching the GOP do some fantastic contortions to justify her presence on the ticket while denying the Democratic candidates identities had anything to do with it. Much less the formal tying of McOld to the previous disaster-in-chief.

Without Condi, Tailhook John’s campaign is going to be an absolute snoozer as he picks another semi-wealthy white guy who won’t make the Boss look bad. I hear Quayle is kinda bored . .

Wouldn’t that statement be true for an incredibly large percentage of humanity?…

Alls I’m really saying, though, is that you’d think McCain would pick someone with real wingnut cred.

Um, Pinky, what masses are you referring to? The Romney I know was about as loveable as a corporate exec’s power tie. AFAIK, that’s the major reason he bombed: People finally saw through him as a cold-hearted jerk who would lay off his grandmother if it added ten dollars to the bottom line.

To answer both points at once I have to agree but also disagree. Yes Romney doesn’t have the ‘wingnut cred’ but he’s a whole heck of a lot more liked than McCain from what I can see.

Yes, Romney is as compassionate as a stump but looking at Bush he’s a step up, not down…

Now granted I live in Michigan and the DeVos wing of the republican party (uh, nearly the whole damn party) loves the stuffings out of Romney because both families are headed by corporate hacks who would screw their own families to get a few millions. It ought to be scary but the liberal media has done a great job of framing and spinning…

Um, Pinky, what masses are you referring to? The Romney I know was about as loveable as a corporate exec’s power tie. AFAIK, that’s the major reason he bombed: People finally saw through him as a cold-hearted jerk who would lay off his grandmother if it added ten dollars to the bottom line.

Both are on the moderate/liberal end of Republicanism,

Oh please please don’t anyone here buy into that rethug talking-point. It’s a ploy that has worked wonderfully for them in the past: repeat a lie often enough, and make sure many different wingnuts all know to repeat the same lie, soon you have the MSM repeating the lie, and soon enough it transforms into believed “fact” in the public’s minds. It’s an ingenious ploy to get the independents and moderates to vote for mccain even though he is not really moderate in any way. And it’s working!

I think the bigger question is who would Obama pick? The only downside to Hillary not likely getting the presidential nomination is that my presumption Wes Clark would be her VP nominee now won’t be tested.

Both Romney and McCain might as well be card-carrying Communists as far as the real wingnuts are concerned. McCain has put in a little face time with the Religious Right and the ultra-nuts over the past year or so since he started gearing up for another presidential run, but before that he was moderate enough that I know Democrats who would have considered voting for him back in 2000.

In fact I still know Democrats who are unaware of his flip-flopping ways and are still considering voting for him if their candidate of choice doesn’t win the Dem nomination.

Alls I’m really saying, though, is that you’d think McCain would pick someone with real wingnut cred.

Mitt: drops out early, endorses McCain early, and now is helping him raise money.

Hillary: will never drop out, might endorse Obama, but might not, and is causing him to spend tens of millions to win a nomination he can’t really lose.

Which one of these is really mind boggling, Pammy?

Huh? That certainly doesn’t describe McCain…

I’m honestly not aware of any Republican politician (above the local level at least) who could be reasonably described as “moderate” anymore. I think the long knives have taken care of them all…