The Republican Vice-Presidential Spectulation Thread.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Romney would be a politically tone-deaf idiot to have another governor as his running mate.  So while it is possible, it would not be a good choice.  If Romney is the nominee, I think he goes for a Senator as his running mate.  Richard Burr of North Carolina would be a good fit for Romney, but not the only one.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Burr would be perfect except for one minor problem: His bank run comments back in 2009 leaves one wondering if he's dumber than Palin. Apparently he'd never heard of the FDIC before.

While the FDIC usually manages to deal with bank failures smoothly, if we had had multiple large banks fail as some feared at the time if the liquidity crisis, then there was a definite risk of a temporary loss of access to funds in affected banks.  Thankfully the risk never materialized, but it was there.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Jindal is disqualified by being a governor.  Romney will not be helped by having a second governor on the ticket.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Jindal is disqualified by being a governor.  Romney will not be helped by having a second governor on the ticket.

Depends if Mittens wants to follow the "double up" (Obama/Biden, Dole/Kemp, Kerry/Edwards) model or "complimentary" (Clinton/Gore, GHWB/Quayle, Carter/Mondale) model. The former would (IMO) point towards McDonnell or Jindal, the latter Ryan.

Doubling up would encourage voters to look at what Romney did as governor and he'll want to keep that as hidden as possible.  Romney needs to run on his record at Bain and the Olympics and try to get people to ignore his time as the CEO of Massachusetts.

You'll also note that all of the double ups you mentioned are Senator/Senator combos. The last time a Governor/Governor duo ran was in 1948 with the Thurmond/Wright and Dewey/Warren tickets.  You have to go all the way back to 1912 and the Wilson/Marshall campaign to find a double governor ticket that won.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

They should have put Scott Walker's name in there as well.  If he survives the recall and remains governor, that is one candidate who -besides putting much of the Midwest into play- can really set the Tea Party base on fire as a man that the Democrats and their labor union 'mafia' allies tried to get rid of in a high-profile vote, but failed.  

Walker is a remote possibility, but only if Walker crushes his opponent in the recall election and Romney is down but not out in the polls.  However, Romney may not want to wait that long.  The sooner he has a running mate, the sooner he or she can go out and do fundraising.  Romney's campaign style needs as much money as he can possibly raise.