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Originally Posted by Willravel
Looks like it's going to be Tim Pawlenty, so start practicing the proper pronouncing of "Pawlenty".
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Well, it won't be as hilariously terrible a pick as Lieberman or Romney would have, so I gotta give McCain that. This reminds me very much of how McCain became the GOP candidate: the field was so awful that eventually people whittled away the guys with the most obviously unacceptable flaws. In the primary, that meant getting rid of Romney (the lyingest cyborg on earth), Rudy (crazy), Thompson (old and didn't really care to run very much), Huckabee (way too conservative socially and not 100% in line with the tax jihad folks), Paul (crazy/the only one not crazy on the topic of Iraq), etc.
Now, McCain had to eliminate Lieberman (Jewish and pro-choice and old), Ridge (pro-choice), Crist (at the very least, metrosexual), Rudy (crazy), Romney (cyborg, plus his richness really makes him and McCain seem out-of-touch), etc.
Pawlenty is boring and has no name recognition. He might -
might - put Minnesota in play, although I doubt it. If it is him, I think McCain made the right choice. Doesn't mean he'll make a great running mate.
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I think Obama was also kind of screwed by his choice of running mates. Biden won't shut up and worked on the hideous bankruptcy bill, Edwards is an adulterer, Hillary could never be chosen after that primary, Bayh and Kaine and all the other bland white guys would have been the ultimate cop-out for the "change" campaign, Sebelius is awesome but a bad speaker, Gore is unavailable, etc. The major difference is that Obama is pretty awesome, while McCain is a compromise.
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As much as Pawlenty strikes me as a wet mop, folks in Minnesota say he's deceptively lame. Better a pol than he looks. On the other hand, Mitt comes prepackaged with aggressive anti-McCain quotes; he's a complete freak; and he also has twenty houses. A fringe benefit is he's laid off a significant portion of the electorate.
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