Pawlenty
Posted at 11:17 am on Wednesday, August 27, 2008, in Uncategorized, and tagged 2008, biden, hillary clinton, mccain, obama, pawlenty, romney.
I’m pretty sure John McCain will be announcing Tm Pawlenty, the governor of Minnesota, as his running mate. How sure? Well, it really doesn’t matter because it’s only my opinion, not front-page news. But this is why…
Houses. McCain has thirty-six of them or something, at last count. Mitt Romney has a handful. Romney is what the base wants, and Romney is what McCain truly needs to secure the base. But this “how many houses?” issue is too cumbersome for McCain to nominate another multi-millionaire. The GOP has falsely accused elitism in numerous past elections, but the house-number issue has revealed another part of that story: the republicans are elitists too, and they are filthy rich.
Clinton, as in Hillary. Once Biden was announced as the VP nominee, the McCain team released as many “gotcha” videos as they could. First, it was Biden at the debate quietly defending his past statement on Obama’s limited experience. And then it was full-on siege to attract post-Hillary voters, by passing along footage of Clinton ripping on Obama in the debates and on the campaign trail. Flashback, and then flash forward… Romney and McCain went toe-to-toe for months, with endless footage and debate coverage of the two rivals tearing one another to shreds. After the Hillary ads, the inevitable Romney ads would have been just as harsh on the McCain campaign.
So, the backup guy steps up to the plate. The little-known governor of a medium-sized state in the Midwest. Will Pawlenty be able to stand his ground in the VP debate with Biden? It doesn’t matter, at least to the McCain camp; Pawlenty doesn’t own a dozen houses or so, and there isn’t hundreds of hours of footage that will make the Obama oppo team giddy with excitement. That is all that matters.
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August 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
But the choice of Pawlenty opens McCain to the charge that his running mate is inexperienced with little foreign policy background–a charge that he’s tried to stick to Obama. I strongly suspect that McCain will toe the party line and choose Romney.