Kelly Ayotte for VP?
There’s speculation that NH’s Senator Kelly Ayotte might be named as Romney’s VP.
Don’t think so. First of all, that would be an all-New England ticket, not exactly a winner around the country. Secondly, Ayotte—although smart and telegenic and, of course, female—is very inexperienced. I don’t think Romney would go there, just in order to have a woman as running mate and finesse the “Romney is a Mad Man dinosaur about women” routine.
Or would he?
You may or may not remember that, back in January during the New Hampshire primary campaign, I wrote about a Romney-Christie rally I attended. This was the photo I took, and Ayotte is featured prominently, in the red sweater:
Highly unlikely. Ayotte needs a great deal of experience before she’d be ready to sit in the Oval office.
Please, Mitt, no. An experienced governor would be best.
A good choice might be Bob McDonnell, governor of Virginia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_McDonnell
He’s an ex Army officer and attorney general.
He is chair of the Republican governors’ association.
I don’t hear his name much.
I don’t care. It don’t matter much out here in ABOland.
What I believe Mitt is up to here is a very clever mechanism to kill several birds with one cheap move.
He’s going to parade a long series of possible VP candidates starting with Rubio, this one, and on for the next few months.
He’ll give each one a test run in front of the media/public and gauge reactions.
He’ll remind everyone that probably any one of these people has more common sense than Biden – again and again.
He’ll be keeping favorable media attention on himself and because it’s a zero sum situation away from Obama.
And don’t be surprised if he comes back to several for a second or even third run by the media.
Otiose:
He’ll remind everyone that probably any one of these people has more common sense than Biden — again and again.
Which isn’t very difficult to do. He isn’t nicknamed “Slow Joe” for no reason.
I am reminded of some blogger or commenter saying recently that it is a prime Demo tactic to attack your opponent for something which is your own weakness. In 2008, the Demos attacked Sarah Palin – which helped obscure the qualities of the dunderhead they had running for VP.
I don’t think that Biden is going to be the VP candidate this time. Too old -70. [Too dumb- that didn’t make any difference in 2008, so it wouldn’t now.]
How about VP debates? Or maybe a paintball shootout? To choose the Republican VP nominee, that is. Or, a Fear Factor competition where they have to eat dog, give an order for a drone strike, select a green energy firm for a grant, resist hotel hotties, etc. Could be pure genius with the right creativity.
Christie has an Islam problem, Neo.
See this:
http://www.danielpipes.org/11106/chris-christie-islam
Kevin Copple,
A sterling idea. A tad less exciting than the Hunger Games, but…….’twould be entertaining. Have you considered going into reality TV programming?