We could have been in big trouble if McCain would have picked Tom Ridge for VP

[NNN0LHI]

Pro-choice likable guy. Not real bright but who cares? At least he is not an extremist. With Ridge they could have drawn some real independent numbers this November.

Not so with this extremist freak he is stuck with now. We dodged a real bullet there.

Don

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Yep.

The Pork Queen is a perpetual Christmas for us.

[PCIntern]

2. He couldn't pick Ridge because.....

-drumroll-


Ridge's marriage is on the rocks...one thing to have a divorced candidate...another to have divorcing candidate.

[TwilightZone]

3. Most of the other candidates were potentially more trouble than Palin.

Most (all?) of the other candidates were more politically astute than Palin is.

Short-term, she was a distraction. Long-term, she's a disaster.

[Cosmocat]

12. I usually have good instincts ...

but, I so invested in BO, and McCain/Palin inversely ...

But, my insticts say that this lady is so crass, and has SO much baggage professionally and personally, while bringing NOTHING to the table, that I think even a bought and sold MSM can't help but have to address all of the baggage.

I FEARED ROMNEY, and I think Romney would have been BIG trouble.

[TwilightZone]

13. Agreed.

Romney is the right's Joe Biden. I don't mean that ideologically; I mean it from a practical perspective. Romney is sharp and personable (to a lot of people), and I think he would have made a pretty effective attack dog.

[madinmaryland]

4. or asleep.

[JI7]

5. he would have hurt us because of Pennsylvania

Democrats need that state more than Republicans do to win the election.

but i think McCain campaign did not think it was worth it as it would lose him a large amount of the base in other places because of Ridge's position on abortion rights.

[davepc]

6. The entire religious right base would of sat on their hands on election day.

we would of won in a landslide.

[AlinPA]

7. At this point Palin seems to be working out for them...at this point. nt

[EC]

8. Yep,

but lucky for us he folded as usual...Too bad he didn't understand the internets and that we would really be able to vet the choice they made him take...Dobson did us a real favor...

[bowens43]

9. I hope you're right

but I have no faith at all in the American people. There are people out there voted for bush, not just once, but twice!!!!

[MiniMe]

10. He would have lost some of his base with a pro-life VP

[NNN0LHI]

11. Even the anti-choice Rethugs think Palins position on abortion are extremist

The last poll I found less than 15% of Americans agreed with her that it should be illegal for a girl or woman to have an abortion even in cases of rape and incest. That is true right wing lunatic fringe territory.

Don

[MiniMe]

14. Yes, but they think McCain is too "liberal"

Damn I had a hard time even typing that. So Ridge being pro-choice really would have hurt him. The only reason he got the endorsement of Dobson and the like are because of Palin.