Which GOP pols, if picked as '12 VP nominee, would become the 2016 frontrunner?

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Historically speaking, none of the above.  List of losing VP nominees:

2008 - Sarah Palin
2004 - John Edwards
2000 - Joe Lieberman
1996 - Jack Kemp
1992 - Dan Quayle
1988 - Lloyd Bentsen
1984 - Geraldine Ferraro
1980 - Walter Mondale - became frontrunner for '84, but had previously been elected VP under Carter
1976 - Bob Dole - became frontrunner 20 years later and won nomination
1972 - Sargent Shriver
1968 - Ed Muskie - became initial frontrunner but lost nomination to McGovern
1964 - Bill Miller
1960 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
1956 - Estes Kefauver
1952 - John Sparkman
1948 - Earl Warren
1944 - John Bricker
1940 - Charles McNary
1936 - Frank Knox
1932 - Charles Curtis
1928 - Joseph Robinson
1924 - Charles Bryan
1920 - Franklin Roosevelt - became frontrunner 12 years later and won nomination/presidency
1916 - Charles Fairbanks
1912 - Hiram Johnson
1908 - John Kern
1904 - Henry Davis
1900 - Adlai Stevenson
1896 - Arthur Sewall
1892 - Whitelaw Reid
1888 - Allen Thurman
1884 - John Logan
1880 - William English
1876 - Thomas Hendricks
1872 - B. Gratz Brown
1868 - Francis Blair, Jr.
1864 - George Pendleton
1860 - Herschel Johnson
1856 - William Dayton
1852 - William Graham
1848 - William Butler
1844 - Theodore Frelinghuysen
1840 - Richard Johnson
1836 - Francis Granger
1832 - John Sergeant
1828 - Richard Rush
1824 - Nathaniel Macon
1820 - Richard Stockton
1816 - John Howard
1812 - Jared Ingersoll
1804/1808 - Rufus King
1800 - Charles Pinckney - became frontrunner and won nomination
1796 - Aaron Burr - tied Jefferson in 1800 election in electoral votes (pre-12th amendment)
1792 - George Clinton
1789 - John Jay