Anyone up for a VP pool?

He'll pick him to try to get Ohio and he needs someone who won't outshine him.

The Romney campaign is so inept they probably don't realize that what they really need is someone strong on foreign policy and a real game changer. The only option I see for that would be Rice - and that just won't happen.

They won't pick Condi Rice, just because of the Bush factor.

they need someone with political/governmental gravitas. But Rice has so much blood
on her hands (IMHO).

Any old repuke statesmen out there?

and came up empty. He may go with a relative unknown. There's just not a lot of good options out there at all. Maybe John Bolton? Just what they need a wingnut warmonger....

I'll stick with Porman. That's my bet.

McCain wouldn't do it.

policy, war hero, definitely knows the ins and outs of Washington.

He wanted to be president and failed. No way he takes a back seat to Rmoney.

Besides, McCain recently said Palin was a better candidate than Romney when talking about his VP pick for '08.

I'm sticking. Everyone show their cards.

be stuck with Romneynomics

Reason is that it's a win-win.

It'll give some relatively unknown politician national exposure whcih can be used as a springboard for the future. Also, it'll give much needed national experience w/o having to be the main man on the ticket, and therefore, gaffes will be less important.

Also, if Romney wins, the person will be VP. If he loses, he still has that national exposure, name recognition, and national campaigning experience to use in future campaigns.

Also, it's viewed as the possibility of becoming President one day.

My girlfriend has been incredibly accurate with the few political predictions she makes, and she says it's going to be Pam Bondi. Go ahead, enter her.

Once the smart half of our life-archon said it, I started looking into it, and guess what? Pam hasn't been seen actually doing her job as Attorney General in Tallahassee in quite some time. Instead, she's been hanging around in Tampa, where the Republican Convention will be, and campaigning for Mitt in New Hampshire.

Anyone want to guess that her schedule will put her on a disastrous bus tour through Virginia next week?

Oh, and by the way, she's a complete train wreck, the executor of Governor Scott's awful policies, only two years into her first statewide office, and yet already trying to keep the lid on a dozen abhorrent scandals which will never be contained if she gets the nod. But, as my girlfriend observes, that never stopped them before now.

We don't actually have any money, but win or lose, we'll do our best to donate time to our local elections.

relating to her as a serious politician, because she's a young attractive woman. A little too attractive.

White male. Vanilla. Fairly unknown, blank slate. After the last time the party will insist on the most bland and uncontroversial choice possible.
Of course Portman, being a Republican, is probably as much of an asshole as Romney, but he looks presentable on the surface, kinda like Mittens himself.

Rumor around town here in Cincy is that he's decided to take a pass and keep that blank slate for 2016 when he can take a shot at the top job. I think he's got enough good connections from his days in the Bushco administration that they won't hold this against him in 4 years.

A shot at the biggest swing state. Don't see him helping a whole lot with the Latino vote, but he might help with the independents who are uncomfortable with the bigoted white male Republican stereotype.

If I lose my donation goes to Patrick Murphy (running against Allen West in FL-18). Will also donate if I win- I don't play fair.

Snort.

His only chance to win FL.

I'm going to make a radical prediction. Something, perhaps his tax records, perhaps something we've not heard about yet, will make Romney blatantly, obviously unelectable. In an unprecedented move, the GOP convention drafts/nominates Jeb Bush, who quickly picks Ron Paul as his running mate.