2 Republican sources say McCain has apparently settled on Romney as his pick, but no offer has been made.That noise you heard was the sound of a million silent, exuberant, Democratic fist pumps and hushed whispers of "Yes!". A man who flushed tens of millions of dollars of his own money to finish second and third a bunch of times, got ganked by a couple severely dirty McCain tricks, and someone who polling finds decreases support for Republicans is the pick. Furthermore he's another rich, white Republican, he's possibly the most phony politician in America, and the evangelical base of the Republican party hates him because he's a Mormon. Oh and he went on a campaign stop to a black neighborhood and acted like everyone's awkward dad, even busting out the phrase 'bling bling'. Hard to see why McCain would pass up on all of that.
This bon mot was also dropped in the article: “People close to the campaign also floated a wild-card choice, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Iraq.” Yeah, it's every republicans wet dream. But what's he going to do, just drop his clipboard, yell "Fuck it, I'm out" and then get discharged out of the military and Iraq command to come run for VP? That ought to go well with McCain's message: "Iraq isn't going well enough for us to ever leave, but it is going well enough that the guy who runs things can quit and come be by VP candidate." Furthermore that ought to come off real well with the sense that many top Pentagon and military brass have become defacto political actors for the Republican party. But wet dreams are wet dreams.
Mittens is allegedly in. Now I just have to use all my mental powers to deflect any Evan Bayh choice on Obama's part. ~feingoldfeingoldfeingoldfeingold~ ~nobayhnobayhnobayhnobayh~
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