McCain is showing interest in Rep. Eric Cantor and Politico reports that McCain is in the process of vetting him:John McCain’s presidential campaign is vetting Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) as a potential vice presidential candidate, a campaign adviser tol…

You men got to say that about Sarah Palin, so I’m less embarrassed by that response than I probably should be :-)

You can be against taxes and FOR McCains cap and trade.

You can increase supply all you want, but you will continue to hamstring the economy, the private sector, etc. with cap and trade.

“Cap” is a government restriction on energy use, it’s production (or most likely both.) “Trade” is effectively energy taxation.

McCain has some decent ideas on energy; his stance is definately better than Obambi’s. But ANY republican plan (ANY plan) which advocates for cap and trade is a disaster waiting to happen.

BTW, I heard from a source close to the Obama campaign to expect an endorsement by Colin Powell right before the RNC convention.

how would a former CEO play like Whittman when the Dem narrative has always been the Repubs. are in the back pocket of “Big Business”

Whitman was a terrible CEO for E-Bay who created massive messes for her successors to clean up (just like Fiorina at HP). On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d rate them both as hideous.

Huh? During the time that Whitman ran eBay, it went from being the place for Pez collectors to being a household word, from being an interesting venture to being a multinational corporation. Compare how it weathered the collapse of the Internet bubble to 99% of the dotcoms. Ebay’s problems are that it was still priced as a high growth stock long after its major growth phase passed. It also made some poor acquisitions and other business decisions subsequent to Whitman’s tenure that did little for it but waste money.

As for the first point, about being in the pocket of big business, that kind of class warfare stuff has rarely played well in America since the Depression, and eBay isn’t your normal “big business.” It’s one of the great American success stories, in fact – a major business serving the public and employing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands if you include people who work full- or part-time as eBay sellers, that didn’t even exist a few short years ago.

All that said, I don’t think Whitman’s a very likely choice. I’d thought of her as a tossaround possibility months ago, but I haven’t seen her “auditioned” anywhere. From what I remember of her public appearances and interviews ca. Y2K, she gave kind of a steel fist in velvet glove impression that might work very well politically, but she has little or no political experience. Who knows if she can give a speech or stand up to questioning or debate on public policy?

Good responses.

This would turn democrap identity-politiks on it’s head with as little time possible for the enemy to respond to a new Republican ‘celebrity’ candidate in the mix. (Obama fatigue is already a real factor) Either choice splits a key democrap constituency to the core, and capitalizes on the sad state of the glib, uninformed “American Idol” electorate who vote on emotion rather than understanding.

Most of the campaign staff strongly prefers a selection from the first two categories — do no harm or reinforce experience. McCain himself, on the other hand, is intrigued by the bolder possibilities of youth or bipartisanship.

And he could be especially intrigued by Sarah Palin and Meg Whitman. I run into plenty of moderate and conservative women who don’t consider themselves feminists but would be pleased to see a qualified woman on the ticket.

Especially if Obama picks a man, rejecting hope and change in favor of the same old patriarchy — won’t McCain be tempted to say: cherchez la femme?

So McCain is on the Palin bandwagon(or Cantor or a CEO?), holding out hope.

that said, how would a former CEO play like Whittman when the Dem narrative has always been the Repubs. are in the back pocket of “Big Business”?

Thanks for the synopsis, Ed!