T-Paw…on McCain’s Veep Short List?
July 23rd, 2008 at 03:17pm Leo Pusateri
Possibly, very short list?
ROCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) – It’s VP tea leaf reading season, and a Republican source who attended a small private meeting with John McCain Tuesday in New Hampshire tells CNN that the GOP candidate dropped a serious hint about Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.
The Republican source said “out of the blue” McCain told the gathering that he thinks they are “really going to like” Pawlenty.
As Chairman for the national McCain For President Committee, the perceived degree of possibility of Tim Pawlenty as a possible Veep pick for McCain has vacillated wildly since February of this year; at times it looked like he was a definite pick, at other times a longshot. Don’t get me wrong. I like Governor Pawlenty. But a Pawlenty pick would do very little to shore up McCain’s conservative bonafides. A pick of a true-blue conservative such as Bobby Jindal, on the other hand, would take the McCain campaign light years toward healing the obvious rift between conservative purists and some of the uncomfortably left-leaning policies of the McCain platform.
***UPDATE***
I guess a Bobby Jindal candidacy is not in the cards.
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11 Comments
1. Carl Gordon | July 23rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
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3. Leo Pusateri | July 23rd, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Glad you got that off your chest, Carl ;-)
4. neocon | July 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Carl,
I hear Feinstein says good things about you.
peace, neocon
5. SEW | July 23rd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Carl, welcome back to Earth. Those two 9 line sentences actually have logic and verifiable facts.
6. Ricorun | July 23rd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I think McCain should pick Jim Ogonowski.
7. navydad | July 23rd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
:O WOW Carl….I concur!
8. Timothy Horrigan | July 24th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Pawlenty, like McCain himself, appears to be liberal on the key issue of the Theory of Evolution. Both T-Paw and Mac have avoided taking a stand on this key issue.
Jindal, who is strongly opposed to Evolution, would help McCain pick up the anti-Darwinist vote.
9. Doug | July 24th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I’m just curious, Timothy, how large is the ‘anti-Darwinist’ vote? I’m a creationist, but I don’t vote ‘anti-Darwinist’. I’m far more apt to vote ‘anti-abortion’ or ‘pro-gun’. If an ‘anti-Darwinist’ was running against a creationist and the creationist was pro-abortion and the ‘anti-Darwinist’ was anti-abortion, I really don’t think there would be a large number of voters making their decision without regard to their abortion stance.
You could put in their ‘War in Iraq’, ‘laissez-faire’, whatever, I just thought abortion would make a better example.
10. rightlane | July 24th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Dude! I take it your less than pleased with DF.
My reguards to Lile and Kobe.
11. Kurt | July 24th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
McCain seems comfortable with Pawlenty, and I am sure if he could pick a VP without all the other considerations that have to go with it, Pawlenty would be the choice.
I still hope he will pick Mitt Romney. As someone who ran as a Romney delegate, and as somebody who will be attending the National Convention in September, I would love to see my first choice get the #2 spot, but those are selfish reasons.
Outside of my own selfish reasons, I really do believe that Romney is the best choice. He brings strong economic credentials to the ticket. He will no doubt help in Michigan where recent polls show a toss-up. He has been fully vetted and he brings with him a roledex full of big money contributors. Lastly, but most importantly, he is qualified for the job, something the Democratic candidate for President is not. If something were to happen to President McCain, and yes, there will be a President McCain, the nation would be in good, competent hands.