People vote for Presidents, not Vice Presidents

This is largely true, because the VP vote is largely irrelevant. But it’s a mistake to think the VP choice makes no difference. A good conservative VP on McCain’s ticket would advertise that he cares about the conservative vote, at least enough to throw them a bone.

It matters now, because we’re going to wind up with candidates that conservatives won’t like, and there will be a lot on the knife’s edge of staying home and not voting. If they see someone they like in the VP slot, they might overcome their despair.

Doubly true when the Pres candidate is old. McCain seems to have good longevity genes, but if elected at age 72, 2 terms would see him as an 80-year old man. 1 term as president might be all he did. The more likely that scenario, the better a good VP candidate looks.

I think this is the exception to the rule.

Good job! 10,0000 of you voted for Fred and Rudy in Georgia. Whatcha gonna do with those votes?

Buy Danish on February 6, 2008 at 12:02 PM

I saw that, too! WTF?!?

Oh we have a choice, but unfortunately I don’t think anyone will really care what it is, least of all McCain.

Pal2Pal on February 6, 2008 at 3:03 PM

It doesn’t appear that we have much choice in the matter, now do we?

Hillary and Obama will team up as President/VP candidates. They will be unstoppable. So, what we have to look forward to is 8 years of Hillary, followed by the now seasoned Obama for the next 8.

Nominate the lying old geezer and you can forget the WH for the next 16 years.

ihasurnominashun on February 6, 2008 at 1:30 PM

If you vote for a candidate who is not in the race, who do you think you are enabling exactly?

While Fred’s policies are fine and while I welcome his ideas, he did us no favors by running. If he wanted to be a candidate he needed to commit himself fully to the effort. He failed to do that and all he managed to do was dilute the votes of conservatives, beginning in Iowa.

He also very actively helped McCain in New Hampshire during the debates. I don’t know about you but that’s not my idea of how to help the conservative cause.

This serves as a pretty good post mortem of his dilatory candidacy.

Buy Danish on February 6, 2008 at 1:27 PM

Fine, you support the candidate that represents your values, I’ll support mine. We will both end up with the democrats in the end.

ihasurnominashun on February 6, 2008 at 1:22 PM

Good luck with that! The GOP did not choose any of the candidates in this race; they all ran on their own volition.

Buy Danish on February 6, 2008 at 12:52 PM

No actually the GOP hasn’t gotten the message. I will continue to send it to them via my vote in the primary and in November.

I’m not going to “do” anything with them. They aren’t “my” votes to do anything with. I will say, I love the loyalty of those Fredheads though!

ihasurnominashun on February 6, 2008 at 12:06 PM

I guess the Pony Express is still operating in your neck of the woods because you seem not to have gotten the message that Fred (and Rudy) pulled out of the race.

Now that so many states are up on the board, I’m changing the data presentation slightly. Instead of listing the percent of allocated delegates in the second column, I’m substituting the percent of the unallocated delegates that each respective cand…

leanright on February 6, 2008 at 11:49 AM

ummmm….I was agreeing with you.

Good job! 10,0000 of you voted for Fred and Rudy in Georgia. Whatcha gonna do with those votes?

Buy Danish on February 6, 2008 at 12:02 PM

They sent them to the RINOs in the GOP that don’t believe there are any repercussions for being arrogant.

Buy Danish on February 6, 2008 at 12:02 PM

I’m not going to “do” anything with them. They aren’t “my” votes to do anything with. I will say, I love the loyalty of those Fredheads though!

amkun on February 6, 2008 at 11:44 AM

I never said I was pure…but I sure as shootin’ ain’t a sell out!

All that tells me is that we FredHeads were actually voting FOR our candidate and his principles and policies.
Fredhead to the end.

ihasurnominashun on February 6, 2008 at 11:37 AM

Good job! 10,0000 of you voted for Fred and Rudy in Georgia. Whatcha gonna do with those votes?

As for Huck as VP, I think it would be a disaster. What McCain needs in the VP slot is someone with strong economic credentials and I’m not sure a guy with a BA in religion, who wants to “shut down the IRS” can really be taken seriously.

I think Huck would make a dandy assistant deputy surgeon general.

Good points. As a person who makes up all three catagories you point to, I couldn’t agree more.

matthewbit07 on February 6, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Oh ,so in your world there is no youth vote, no conservative vote, and none of these people screaming for change mean anything.
No such groups exist in the McCain world. Denial is sweat, but ineffective as a strategy.

Hollowpoint on February 6, 2008 at 11:19 AM

Allow that for a day or so disappointed supporters will hang onto some unreasonable hope. But substantively, expecting Mitt to just drop out when he has more delegates than HuckaBigot and more money than McCain is not that far fetched. Saying “it ain’t over” is denial. But we gave you Fredheads MONTHS of leeway. In the end, you’ll find that a majority of Mitt supporters are for conservatism and not in love with the candidate or his “hot” wife.

Now we know. Wednesday, February 6, 2008, when all seemed lost.

I’ll write in (lazy) Fred before I vote for lying Mac.

I can’t stomach Huckabee’s faux “common man” and “juss a li’l ole preacher” venalities, but even he is less destructive to the GOP than McCain.

If Romney picked him for Veep, at least it would end Shamnesty.

I could swallow Huck with a lot of Pepto.

McCain, never.