I have to say I find the commentary on this so all over the place, I don't even know who should be Obama's running mate! I am worried that it's just not possible for him NOT to have Clinton as his running mate... but I'm not sure.
NOT Bill Nelson. Admittedly I think he's done an excellent job of focusing attention on Florida's fisheries issues and coral reefs, but he's not that popular, and here in Florida is regarded as a bit of a twit. I think he only won his last election because he was running against Katherine Harris, who was just bloody awful on all levels.
I really like Kathleen Sebelius, though many people think that Obama should go with a veteran as a running mate (I keep hearing stuff about Clark, but since he's an ardent Clinton supporter, I don't know if he'd be up for it).
Oooh. That would be a good choice. Though the Republicans really did launch a nasty attack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Cleland#U.S._Senate) against him (amazingly) a few years back. I don't know if they'd be so low as to try something like that again.
Georgia might be in play this election cycle, and it's Bob Barr's home state, which might split extra votes away from the Republicans. Cleland's still popular there, and it'd be hard to see how McCain, as a veteran, would attack another veteran. In fact, I'm hoping they rather see him as a victim of the Republicans, due to the grotesque way in which he was evicted. Remember the response to that macaca remark in 2006? On the other hand, McCain did vote for torture recently, so... Nothing's impossible.
Interesting idea. My main reservation about Max Cleland would be that he's already 65, which means that if Obama were to serve 8 years, Cleland would be 74 when running for president and 82 by the end of the next 8 years. He'd be even older than McCain. Which could make him a bad candidate for a position that ideally should provide the Democrats with their best hope for a presidential successor to Obama.
Napolitano might be a sleeper candidate. She's not really on the national radar, but she's a popular Democratic governor in a Red state - better, in McCain's home state. And, of course, she's a woman.
OTOH, Arizona isn't exactly a crucial swing state, and I'm not sure she would beat McCain head-to-head.
I don't know. I don't know what I want, and I don't know what would be a good strategic choice, and the whole proposition just scares the crap out of me. All I know is I dislike pretty much everything about the prospect of an Obama/Clinton ticket.
I really don't think Clinton would be a good candidate as VP due to what she, Bill and their various minions have allowed themselves to be quoted as saying about him during the campaign, I think it would make sense for her to now say she's not seeking to be his VP, encourage her supporters to support him and look towards a 2012 or 2016 run on her own.
If she's still after power regardless then I suppose that Obama can't avoid inviting her on to the ticket but how can they pretend that they like one another in public?
I really, really like Russ Feingold. If he'd run for president, I would have voted for him in a heartbeat. Besides, he is the co-author of the much-touted McCain-Feingold bill ... so it would be difficult for McCain's campaign to level a lot of criticism against a former collaborator.
I wouldn't like Obama/Clinton...not just as far as not liking her, specifically, but the people who dislike her tend to despise her so intensely that it's just the kind of thing that could rally people to defy all logic and vote Republican again.
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OTOH, Arizona isn't exactly a crucial swing state, and I'm not sure she would beat McCain head-to-head.
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If she's still after power regardless then I suppose that Obama can't avoid inviting her on to the ticket but how can they pretend that they like one another in public?
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So, it'll probably happen.
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