Head fakes and head shakes

Obama-Bayh: Supposedly there are bumper stickers being printed right at this moment, with the Illinois-Indiana team on it.

This is the worst pick at all for Obama. I get the feeling people will like Bayh in general. He IS more moderate than many other Democrats, bu then, he DOES come from Indiana. Not Deleware.

I get the feeling though that Bayh will be a very boring running mate, which is what Obama wants on a personal level (WHO DARES STEAL HIS SPOTLIGHT!) Also, he won't necessarily provide the assurance to undecided voters that Obama is not going to govern radicaclly.

Obama-Kaine: Pathetic. This is one of the best tickets the Republicans can hope for. How on earth is a man as naive--though older--as Obama going to help him? That's the thing with these Democrat governors. They're the same as Senators in personality.

I still think Obama's BEST pick would have been Phil Bredesen. But I think we're going to see Obama-Sebelius. This Bayh bumper sticker thing could be another head fake. I think the Dems are smart enough to calculate the best way to use the media coverage of a Veep choice is to do something out of the box: thus a woman veep, BUT NOT HILLARY. And Sebelius is the best way to do that.

ROMNEY NEWS & I'M BACK!

1. Evangelicals and Romney talk, from The Boston Globe. Here...

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/08/evangelicals_an.html

I don't get it. They say the anti-Romney movement isn't about his mormonism; that it's really about his change of position on abortion. If that's so, then why haven't Evangelical Leaders said anything about Tom Ridge? In any case, Romney is no longer pro-choice. Tom Ridge is. See the difference, folks?

You may have heard Mike Huckabee's recent dagger move at Romney as well, saying in an interview that Romney is unacceptable as VP, BUT NOT BECAUSE HE'S MORMON!

Yeah. Riiiiiight.


Not that anyone really cares, but this is my first blog post here in quite some time. My excuse is that I've been working, trying to get my car in tip-top shape for this coming semester, and quite forgot that my blog even existed. In any case, the VP race is heating back up as each presidential candidate is sizing up his fellow pols for the Veepship. I've noticed that Romney and Pawlenty are back as the most mentioned names for McCain, and Jindal is not. Neither is Palin or Steele, which is a shame. I liked both.

Time Kaine for Obama? That would be GREAT. Time Kaine is well-intentioned Democrat, somewhat moderate whose greatest strength (in Republican terms) is that he would make absolutely no impact on whether Obama got less or more votes. Will he be the Veep? WE WISH!

There's also talk of John Kerry. Frankly, that would be an extremely unsavvy pick for Obama. If he's trying to out-Vietnam Vet McCain, he can do better (though not as well). In any case Kerry is not seen as a Vietnam WAr hero. He's seen as a jerk who slimed American troops, who threw away his medal, and who joined the "we hate America at any cost"/Jane Fonda brigade. And then there's the fact that George Bush (who isn't supposed to be popular) beat John Kerry in 2004 by a nifty margin. So will he be the Veep? WE WISH!