Official GOP VP prediction thread

[ElNono]

So, who will it be? Make your predictions here.

I can't even provide a short-list... There's just been no indications of Romney leaning any particular way. It's been argued that Rubio might be a wise choice due to his hispanic roots, but Mitt really hasn't hinted he's remotely interested.

[ElNono]

I don't think it will be Rubio simply because once you've gone through the White House, your political career as far as holding office anywhere else is probably finished.

Personally, because of how ugly things are turning in NJ, and because he's been a very good Mitt lapdog, I'm going with Christie.

[boutons_deux]

Two Gecko's as the Repug ticket, surely a landslide winner.

[clambake]

Personally, because of how ugly things are turning in NJ, and because he's been a very good Mitt lapdog, I'm going with Christie.

should we fire up the chinook?

[ElNono]

should we fire up the chinook?

:lol

[Clipper Nation]

Didn't President Paul already pretty much confirm that he was going to run with Judge Napolitano? Ron bless

[scott]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it'll be that guy named after the Metallica song.

[mercos]

I'm thinking Romney will go safe and pick either Pawlenty or Portman. Due to Ohio's importance, I'm going Portman.

[LnGrrrR]

Sarah Palin!

[boutons_deux]

Potential Veep Pick McDonnell: Romney Will Win Because "People Are Not Gonna Vote on Who They Like"

After an initial flare several months ago, talk of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell as a potential running mate for Mitt Romney settled into warm coals mode as media speculated about other candidates, both more and less exciting than the man known to women's health advocates as the transvaginal governor.

But a peculiar situation has arisen in the Old Dominion that has reignited talk of McDonnell's potential in the number-two slot.

In the 2012 election, Virginia has emerged as the new must-win state for a presidential candidate, said to be what Ohio was in 2004, or Florida was thought to be in 2000, before we all realized the Supreme Court could appoint presidents.

Right now, if you examine the presidential contest as one between the two major-party candidates, it's a dead heat between Obama and Romney. But throw into the mix third-party candidate Virgil Goode, a former Virginia congressman, and Romney's got a major problem.

Goode, once a Republican, is running on the ticket of the Constitution Party, the Christian Reconstructionist outfit founded by Howard Phillips. In Virginia, as of mid-July, Goode was polling at 9 percent in a PPP survey of the presidential race. Among hard-core, right-wing evangelicals, Romney's Mormonism is an issue -- not to mention the general acknowledgement on the right that he is not a "true conservative." For a right-wing, Jesus-lovin', flag-wavin' Virginian, a vote for Goode could register as the perfect protest against what's described as the Republican Party establishment.

http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/potential-veep-pick-mcdonnell-romney-will-win-because-people-are-not-gonna-vote-who?akid=9172.187590.Xt7F1L&rd=1&src=newsletter688063&t=2

[Oh, Gee!!]

Bristol Palin

[AFBlue]

Sticking with my gut pick from a few months back and going with Paul Ryan.

[ElNono]

Sticking with my gut pick from a few months back and going with Paul Ryan.

winner :toast