is it going to be an Obama/Clinton ticket?

[Gripen]

no......
if anything, i'd lean more toward Richardson as a veep.

I'd love to see an Obama/Richardson ticket. Really like the experience Richardson brings to the table.

[Rubicon]

I don't see Obama taking Clinton as a VP because she is part of the "business as usual" crowd he as spent his entire campaign distancing him from. I don't see Clinton taking Obama as a VP because he is far more likable than she is and she won't put herself in a position to be upstaged by someone close to her.

So, no we won't see an Obama/Clinton ticket.

[skibuminwyo]

kucinich and utah phillips.... ohhh yes. maybe resurrect edward abbey. if bush can get elected, we can elect a dead dude right?

[Long Duck Dong]

kucinich and utah phillips.... ohhh yes. maybe resurrect edward abbey. if bush can get elected, we can elect a dead dude right?

Ask John Ashcroft about electing dead dudes.

[Platinum Pete]

For the Democrats:
- Richardson is waiting for the Veep call, but has the open New Mexico Senate seat to fall back on (he's popular and connected enough to pick it up late). He was so Mr. Niceguy in his Pres. campaign that he could only have been running for VP or party support for his Senate run.
- Wes Clark backed Hilary early and would round out her campaign well, but he'd also settle for SecDef or maybe even SecState - the guy just doesn't want to work a regular job or retire. Picking him as VP means dumping him in 4 years or running an election in 8 years with no VP to hand off the nomination to - Clark is too old in 8 years and Hilary won't hand over the presidency sooner. Not sure I see Clark riding with Obama, but I wouldn't call it impossible.
- Biden has sworn up and down that he wouldn't take a job as SecState or VP, and his outrage at the media bias toward the celebrity candidates would bee yet another blabber mouth moment for the opposition to have a field day with.
- Dodd doesn't carry any states Obama or Hilary can't win on their own and is an old schooler of the type Obama wants to change. Count him out as VP, but might take a cabinet job with his finance background - though I don't know why he'd give up his cush Senate gig.
- Edwards has said he's not going to take a VP job and with his fightiness this time around, paired with his wife's health issues, I'd say he wants the big prize or to go home having moved the arguements.
- Obama and Hilary together could happen if Hilary takes the top of the ticket in a long, long battle with Barack - she'd have to believe he can give her states she couldn't win on her own. He'd go for it cuz he wants the big chair and has time to work up to it. He won't choose her, that's for sure.
- A Gore/Obama ticket would be the raddest and the easiest win, but won't happen.
- Hagel won't tie up with any of the Democrats who have a chance.
- Evan Bayh might make a Hilary or Obama running mate - the party owes him and he opted not to run early so he may have been promised.
- Mark Warner (former VA Gov.) has the ability to guarantee more of the South on a Hilary or Obama ticket, plus his experience isn't the worst and he's young enough to take the baton in 8 years.
- Vilsack started kissing Hilary's ass early so she'd pay off his campaign debt, but I wouldn't completely count him out of the VP, but I wouldn't put him anywhere near the top
- Kathleen Sebilius (Gov. of Kansas) has been mentioned as a great VP candidate but a woman VP candidate is not so likely with the big democratic contenders

On the Republican side...
- Jeb Bush guarantees Florida goes Red and as the smarter of the Bush kids he won't scare off too many swing voters
- McCain or Guiliani might do something crazy like pick Hagel as a running mate, but I doubt Rudy gets the nom
- If not Jeb or Hagel, it'll probably be a team of 2 of the current candidates, but not Romney, McCain, and Ron Paul are not going to be anyones VP picks.
- I don't know the republican bench well enough to make deeper picks

[rideit]

How about an Emo Phillips/Utah Phillips ticket?

[rideit]

So, just for the record, guess who said today that a Clinton/Obama ticket would be 'an unbeatable combination'?

Take a guess.

[Nanuq]

If Obama is the nominee my bet is on Richardson as his Veep of choice. If Clinton gets the nod, I hafl expect to see a Clinton/Edwards or Clinton/Biden ticket.

[Nanuq]

So, just for the record, guess who said today that a Clinton/Obama ticket would be 'an unbeatable combination'?

Take a guess.

I don't know, so this really is a guess. O'Riley? Limbaugh?

Or going the other side Thom Hartmann or Rhandi Rhodes?

[rideit]

I don't know, so this really is a guess. O'Riley? Limbaugh?

Or going the other side Thom Hartmann or Rhandi Rhodes?

Try again.

Just a little closer to the bone, as it were.

[Nanuq]

McCain? That would make sense.

[Jer]

Rove?

Still, it ain't gunna happen.

[Nanuq]

Wait, I seem to remember hearing Hillary saying something about the unbeatable nature of the Clinton/Obama ticket.

[rideit]

No, it was Senor Bill himself.

And Hillary has hinted at it as well.

And Obama certainly isn't dismissing the idea.

[Nanuq]

It would be a unique twist to this already unique primary. I think it could also give some needed unification within the Democratic Party if they did do this.

McCain would lose against that ticket.

I wonder though if Hillary would take the VP seat if Obama wins the primary.

[AlpineJunkie]

McCain/Cheney 08!

[rideit]

Clinton siad that she would consider the idea, but not as veep.

AJ, you know that Cheney even publicly endorsing McCain would be a kiss of death!

[Jer]

I think it could also give some needed unification within the Democratic Party if they did do this.

All it would really prove is the Dem party is inherently racist. The only way a Negro boy can get in the WHITEhouse is if he's second fiddle to some rich white woman.

I wonder though if Hillary would take the VP seat if Obama wins the primary.

First - I think you meant to say Democrat nomination instead of "primary".

Second - are you high?

Third - better dust off those old LP's of "Street Fightin' Man" for the Dem convention this summer if Hill get's the nod because of super delegates.

[Nanuq]

All it would really prove is the Dem party is inherently racist. The only way a Negro boy can get in the WHITEhouse is if he's second fiddle to some rich white woman.

No no Jer, you must have been thinking of "Driving Miss Daisy" which would place your thinking into that racist and bigoted world. I can't believe you. You sick, racist, little old exploitin' white women loving pig.

[AlpineJunkie]

AJ, you know that Cheney even publicly endorsing McCain would be a kiss of death!

But what a kiss it would be!

[Jer]

No no Jer, you must have been thinking of "Driving Miss Daisy" which would place your thinking into that racist and bigoted world. I can't believe you. You sick, racist, little old exploitin' white women loving pig.

Shouldn't you be wishing death on some 15 year old girl instead of straining your withered brain trying to come up with some "witty" retort?

[rideit]

[Jer]

Contrast those smiles. Obama looks like he just took a pull off the bong and somebody cracked a joke. Genuine. Hillary looks like somebody photoshopped a smile off someone else's face and put it on her scary grille. Completely fake - like everything else about her.

[Hillary Rodham Clinton]

Yeah, let's see your grille when you're 60, bitch.

[AlpineJunkie]

Yeah, let's see your grille when you're 60, bitch.

Hillary that pic of Brittney and Madonna got you wet as hell didn't it? You can be honest.