Romney to announce running mate on Saturday @9am ET in Norfolk, VA

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

As much as I love Condi, and as brilliant and qualified as she is, I think we all know that Mitt is not going to take that extraordinary risk of picking a pro life candidate.

A Romney Rice ticket and administration would be my dream for America though.

My thoughts. America needs Romney/Rice. Between Romney's brilliance on economics and Rice's brilliance on foreign policy, those two would easily have one of the best administrations we've had, and would heal many of our problems.

Agreed, but I think we all know she won't be the VP nominee, unfortunately.  But President Romney could call upon her to accept the office of Secretary of State yet again. 

I've given a little thought to who our cabinet will be - She'd be excellent. I also would be happy with Senator Lugar, despite his age. It's a shame - she'd do much better than Portman will do as our VP.

Maybe Condi can run after Mitt's 8 years are up? She wouldn't be too old.

Whoa there cowboy, don't count your horses before they get to the stable. My guess is Romney-Pawlenty. I wouldnt go about picking a cabinet yet, but Luger would be great at the state dept. or defense dept. Condi would only further the Obama message of taking us back to Bush (I.E. illegal Iraq War, failure in Afganistan). And 8 years of Mitt? My guess is, if the Governor manages to eek out a victory in November, in the words of Rupert Mourdoch "Doubtful", Clinton/Scweitzer would swamp Romney in 2016. And I'm talking 400 or more EVs.

Clinton-Scweitzer 438
Romney-Pawlenty 100

What an absolutely ridiculously hackish map.

And some have called me a hack.

My friend, any acts of  hackishness I may have committed pales in comparison to the hatchet job you have done on anything resembling reality or common sense.

I feel as if I may have accomplished something by being called a hack by THE WINFIELD. Let me explain my map. Hispanics will help the Dems carry Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, and Florida. Blacks, angry at Romney about beating Obama, will help them carry North Carolina, South Carolina,  and Georgia. Clinton is still EXTREMELY popular in the South and Rust Belt(more so than Romney), and Scweitzer will give us Montana. And Clinton, who won New Hampshire in 08 and was a Senator from NY, will lock up the NorthEast.

[Lincoln Republican]

The American electorate is far too polarized to produce this map anytime in the near future.

[RogueBeaver]

Wrong subforum, methinks.

[Mr. Morden]

Fresh denials of vetting on Jeb Bush, Nikki Haley, and Rick Santorum:

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/election/2012/07/10/haley-bush-reportedly-not-vetted-for-vp-spot/

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/09/santorum-romney-hasnt-called-for-me-vp-vetting/

Christie refuses to say whether he's being vetted:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/07/christie_says_he_doesnt_think.html

Current list of people who refuse to say whether they're being vetted:

Christie
Jindal
McDonnell
Pawlenty
Portman
Rubio
Ryan
Thune
Tom Graves

[wan]

i think huckabee should get a look at. Conservative and from the south

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Drudge has some big headline out. What's it mean?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Drudge has some big headline out. What's it mean?

He needs to boost his ad revenue.

[pepper11]

If I had an Intrade account I would put some dollars on Huckabee.

[pepper11]

Should have said Condi.

[RogueBeaver]

This is just a head fake. No way does Romney pick a moderate with no elective experience and closer Bush ties than anyone not named Bush.

[5280]

They're saying Condi Rice might be a front runner for VP.

[Keystone Phil]

Condi, eh? Well, this could be very interesting...

[Comrade Funk]

I doubt it, but if true, not a good move for Romney. Pro-choice and obviously very connected to the Bush administration. Going for Portman or Pawlenty is smarter. If they didn't want a boring white guy, go for Ayotte or Martinez or Rubio. Hell, go for Christie even. A lot of risks there, but they'd rile the right more than Condi.

[Keystone Phil]

Along with news that Condi is now emerging as the frontrunner for the Vice Presidential nomination, the Romney campaign dropped this bombshell on us:

"The news came as the Romney campaign confirmed for the first time that a choice would be made before the Republican National Convention."


http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/237701-report-condoleezza-rice-emerges-as-frontrunner-for-romney-vp


Oh, wow. Maybe this is being done because the running mate would have to be nominated...?

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I got that email today and laughed. It was entitled Mitt's VP and immediately said he would announce his pick between now and the convention. What a shock!

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Wow.

Didn't Romney say he wasn't going to pick a dark horse?

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I'd be surprised considering I thought he wanted a boring white male. Condi is definitely better than Palin but I'm not sure how the base will react to him picking a black, unmarried, pro-choice woman with a PhD with close ties to the Bush Administration.

[Lambsbread]

I really don't think it'll be Condi.

[tmthforu94]

If this were true, wow...

I think this could be a killer ticket - just need to find a way to shore up conservatives.

[Mr. Morden]

Are we sure that Drudge's tipster wasn't Winfield?

[Keystone Phil]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6r4mqNmjXo&feature=relmfu

[Mr. Morden]

A sample of Rice's denials of interest from as recently as a few weeks ago:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/drudge-report-lists-condi-rice-as-top-romney-vp-candidate/

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[cavalcade]

They're saying Condi Rice might be a front runner for VP.

Could be serious.  Could be a test to see if pro-choice is a dealbreaker for the base (if I remember correctly from Game Change, the McCain campaign floated Ridge because they were considering Lieberman).  Could be "Mitt Romney is seriously considering a black woman, see, Republicans aren't racist or sexist".

[Phony Moderate]

Rudy Giuliani?

[RogueBeaver]

Dunno what's up with Jon Karl but putting Rubio and Ayotte ahead of Ryan/Jindal/ or even Generic R Thune? Really?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/jonathan-karls-list-vp-field-july-portman-pawlenty-rubio/story?id=16354225#