After Palin & "Game Change" vetting will be a lot tougher

[Guest EXPAT]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/after-palin-expect-a-more-intense-vetting-process/

Very interesting NY Times article on how there will never be another Palin again after it was so obvious how poorly McCain and his team vetted her. There is no way another Palin will get in again without proper due diligence.

If Romney is nominated he will more than likely pick a very safe VP candidate that doesn't require a lot of knowledge building like one of the other GOP candidates perhaps? Do you think Gingrich would do VP? or Santorum as VP? I bet they would. Or Chris Christie? It will all be interesting to observe.

[JKane]

There's been stuff said between Romney and Frothy that make it seem really unlikely he'd be invited onto Romney's ticket. Neuter is clearly game, in fact he may well be a prop now to keep Romney from having to take on Frothy directly. But Neuter's showing in the south was bad and he's got many enemies and a *lot* of baggage.

There was a lot of speculation that the governor now known as 'Governor Vaginal Probe' was on the short list... now that he's known for that though... is winning the south worth losing women everywhere?

Love the Republican primaries!

[Guest CharliePS]

How about another Vice President Bush? Jeb, that is.

[Guest EXPAT]

Jeb is probably the most intelligent of the Bush family. I think we could have worse than Jeb. . .

[TampaYankee]

There is no way another Palin will get in again without proper due diligence.

Wish I could believe that but I don't. It is not that they didn't know vetting was important at the time. Rather it was a set of circumstances that dicatated rash action. McCain was a weak candidate with respect to his base. Simply put they didn't want him but circumstances and multiple conservative alterantives diluted the opposition. (Where else have we seen that?) McCain wanted as VP a democrat: Lieberman, stubbornly so. After putting off giving in on an alternative and finding himself in deep do-do with the base and the polls, he opted for a game changer that had not been vetted. SImply, he put his campaign above the country and that is how history will record it.

Will there be desperate politicians with weak base support in the future who stubbornly refuse to face political facts about their position until late in the game and ultimately bet the ranch (and the country) on a game changer? I wound't bet against it. Desperate men take desperate measures.

This almost sounds like it could be Romney. Let's hope Romney won't be as stubborn. I don't believe he will be, as his ego is subservient to his ambition. He seems willing to do anything at any time to win. He'll probably listen more attentively to his advisors than McCain did and get his ducks lined up sooner.

[JKane]

Good ( R )-Money vs Frothy political cartoon:

[Guest EXPAT]

That is an excellent political cartoon. I've really gotten into watching for these. I think they are quite the historical keepsake. . .