Reply #42: With McCain heading their ticket, it would be pretty hard to find someone

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worse for the veep slot, not that the GOP couldn't succeed at that undertaking.

Portman makes Ohio a dogfight. Same for Jim Talent in Missouri.

Romney is a fool -- the sort of unstable personality you get when you cross a game show host with a department store mannequin -- so I'm less concerned about him.

Jeb Bush would make the mix volatile but would be formidable, even in the wake of his older brother's collosal failures.

Condi Rice is in way over her head already, let alone as the heart-beat-away vice presidential candidate, but since when did shallow, incompetnt, liars ever repel GOP voters? If anything, they thrive on that sort of candidate.

Guiliani, Tancredo, Pataki, Allen, Hunter, Brownback, Huckabee, -- that bunch -- I think are off the list.

I think McCain may go with Tim Pawlenty. Anyone further to the right would be an outright pander to the fundie nutbags and would lose him whatever "maverick" appeal he might still have among indies.

Pawlenty, Portman, or Talent.