Romney's VP pick

[golfballs]

Originally Posted by dreVol

whats the knock on jindal?

not a swing state

[golfballs]

I think if he plays it safe, it will be Pawlenty. If he tries to get someone exciting it will be Rubio.

I don't understand how Portman isn't toxic with Bush Office of Management and Budget next to his name.

[Gramps]

Originally Posted by dreVol

whats the knock on jindal?

Do you remember his GOP response to Obama's State of Union a few years ago?

It was a total disaster.

[PKT_VOL]

Alex Waggner on The Last Word last night brought up an interesting tidbit. She was talking about how the VP nominee (in the internet era) has had quite a bit of changes to their Wiki page right before they are officially nominated.

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman has had well over 100 in the last 24 hours. Interesting.

[orangesparkles]

Originally Posted by PKT_VOL

Alex Waggner on The Last Word last night brought up an interesting tidbit. She was talking about how the VP nominee (in the internet era) has had quite a bit of changes to their Wiki page right before they are officially nominated.

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman has had well over 100 in the last 24 hours. Interesting.

That is very interesting, but I'm not sure how relevant that information is. Wikipedia barely had 500,000 English articles in 2004 (granted, that's a ton, but nothing compared to the number today) and wasn't nearly the mainstream site it was in 2008, let alone now. Sort of seems like they're going off of data for one election year, and Palin probably had a lot of edits made on her page because information about her was still freshly emanating.

[milohimself]

Originally Posted by PKT_VOL

Alex Waggner on The Last Word last night brought up an interesting tidbit. She was talking about how the VP nominee (in the internet era) has had quite a bit of changes to their Wiki page right before they are officially nominated.

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman has had well over 100 in the last 24 hours. Interesting.

Colbert noted that last night and urged people to go on Wiki and relentlessly edit the pages for all the potential VP picks.

[golfballs]

I hope it's Paul Ryan.

Speaking of Portman. I met him once when he came to a friend of mine's cookout and filmed us for a campaign ad for his Senate run. It was a voiceover and so they just filmed him talking to us, and we had to pretty much nod and smile. Anyway, I talked to him for a little while afterwards, and he was a real nice guy, but had a weak handshake. TIFWIW

[Cartervol]

I've been hearing Rubio, who knows. Rubio in my mind would be the best choice. They've already got Romney painted as a boring white guy, like that matters. I guess it does. Pairing him with another perceived boring white guy probably does nothing for him, other than give him better chance in Ohio. There are 56 other states though according to Obama.

[golfballs]

Originally Posted by Cartervol

I've been hearing Rubio, who knows. Rubio in my mind would be the best choice. They've already got Romney painted as a boring white guy, like that matters. I guess it does. Pairing him with another perceived boring white guy probably does nothing for him, other than give him better chance in Ohio. There are 56 other states though according to Obama.

Who have you been hearing that from?

[lawgator1]

Originally Posted by BigPapaVol

you just happen to be the only one to believe it's a walkover in FL if he chooses another VP.

Never said that.

But consider:

1. Florida hit hard by mortgage mess. And Romney is easily portrayed as high finance, which is not good around here these days.

2. Florida elected a tea party governor, Rick Scott, who has been VERY unpopular. Approval ratings in the 20s. Scott made millions off of Columbia health care, which got nailed for fraud to the tune of billions. As is, come October, Obama can run ads linking the two as 1 percent scammers joined at the hip. Rubio lets Romney run counter ads and would be powerful.

[Cartervol]

Originally Posted by golfballs

Who have you been hearing that from?

No one credible.

[volinbham]

Originally Posted by milohimself

Colbert noted that last night and urged people to go on Wiki and relentlessly edit the pages for all the potential VP picks.

Well that's helpful

[Cartervol]

I guess the only draw back to Rubio would be the demonizing of the tea party by the lame stream media. They'd be all over that like flies on you know what.

[milohimself]

Originally Posted by volinbham

Well that's helpful

C'mon... There's messing with the electoral process then there's messing with people trying to predict the VP nom by analyzing Wikipedia edits.

[lawgator1]

Originally Posted by Cartervol

I guess the only draw back to Rubio would be the demonizing of the tea party by the lame stream media. They'd be all over that like flies on you know what.

The drawback to picking Rubio is that he favors a relaxed immigration policy, at odds with Romney's own announced position.

The drawback to Rubio in getting picked is that if Romney loses he risks getting Palinized.