Forthwith: Dr Jekyll's uninformed and unrealistic Obama veep handicapping! Alphabetically!
% is the likelihood I give it of happening. Mind you, I am (a) whimsical and (b) soused.
| Name | Pro | Con | Note | % |
| Joe Biden | Thinks Obama is clean and articulate. | Says so. | Mega-gaffer = mega-fail, no matter what foreign relations committees he's on. | 1 |
| Wesley Clark | Wins both anti-war libs and military types | No governing experience | No election know-how = fail points | 5 |
| Hillary Clinton | Wounds--we heals them! | Inspiring get-out-the-vote....for the 'Pubs. | Michelle says no, and I sure as shit wouldn't cross her. | 2 |
| Chris Dodd | Foreign policy wonk; reassuringly white | Carries the critical swing state of C "the middle C is silent!" T. | Have you no sense of fun? | 2 |
| Chuck Hagel | Crazy bipartisan pick overshadows even McCain- Lieberman! | Crazy bipartisan pick descends into its own special level of infighting hell! | Double super bonus points: opening up a Senate seat in the Republican incumbent column | 3 |
| Claire McCaskill | White female senator of swing state | First-term senator of said state | “If I were asked, I would ask some mental health professionals to visit Barack Obama. I just think Sen. Obama is way too smart to pick me." | 1 |
| Bill Richardson | Popular Latino governor of swing state knows his ambassadors | Also knows his ladies (h/t BikeMonkey) | We're sooo postracial now. Wait, not that postracial. | 15 |
| Kathleen Sebelius | Lady guv'nor of crimson Kansas holds bipartisan appeal | Kansan foreign policy: Visit Oklahoma! | She's nearing the end of her second term....Magic-8 says O-yeah! | 30 |
| Ted Strickland | O, hi, Ohio! | "Vice-Presidential" and "sing-along" aren't usually in the same sentence | Patent ploy for swing votes is very 2004 | 1 |
| Jim Webb | Neutralizes McCain's veteran advantage and pulls in the working class. Foshizzle! | Might turn off the wimminfolk; might bite a reporter | Veep debates against any pansy-ass Pube would be Most Fun EVAH! | 25 |
| Out on his own | ?? ?? | ?? ?? | Obama's good at flouting the conventional wiz. Look for a surprise* none-of-the-above. | 15 |
* And by "surprise" I don't mean "Ever Bridesmaid Evan Bayh."P.S., check out the McCaskill link for some more entertaining Senatorial responses to the question “If you were asked, would you accept an offer to be the VP nominee?” I'm personally fond of Ted Kennedy's “I plan to stick with my current job until I get the hang of it." A tip of the beret to Radar.
6 comments:
Great post Dr. J!
BTW, McCain/Liebermann? Now you're just teasing me! Nothing would please me more than if McCain picked Liebermann.....what a colossal, massive greasefire of a campaign that would be.
I haven't forgiven Gore yet for picking a sleazeball like Joe-mentum back in '00.
Dude, I don't know. We can kiss Florida goodbye if McCain takes Lieberman. I'm just hoping Holy Joe wants no part of it.
Dr. J,
Much as it pains me to say this, I think we can kiss Florida goodbye anyways. Doesn't matter who's running---too many whackjobs.
On the other hand, Liebermann on the Rethug ticket will bring out every frikkin Democrat everywhere else in the country just to bash his slimy reptilian head into the ground.
Plus, we can easily point out that a McCain/Liebermann (McGeezer/McDiaperson) ticket could basically be campaigning for the Speaker of the House to be President as she is next in the line of succession. Surely there is a rule somewhere that the combined ages of the candidates on one ticket cannot exceed the number of people currently serving in congress?
You see this item in the Times? Obama looking waaaay outside the governor/senator/household name box.
You're probably right about Florida.... unless he picks Richardson, which would help the Latino vote an awful lot.
WHAT? Where's the love for Gov Napolitanio? Taking it to Mr. Morton in his home state is ...sublime!
I like her, but it's my understanding (correct if wrong, please) that she is single, no kids.
We're post-sexist, but not that post-sexist. Oh hell, who am I kidding? We're not post-sexist at all.
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