Medved's interesting veep thoughts
Michael Medved- one of the smartest men in America, whose political judgement is even better than his talent at judging movies- has written a fascinating blog entry over at Townhall on just who John McCain should pick as his running mate.
He makes a strong argument for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, with an intriguing and impressive possibility I haven't heard mentioned before- Connecticut Gov. Mary Jodi Rell- as the alternative.
Worth a read. One thing's for sure: Mitt Romney isn't the answer, and neither is Mike Huckabee.
Sarah Palin might be- if only she had more experience.
He makes a strong argument for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, with an intriguing and impressive possibility I haven't heard mentioned before- Connecticut Gov. Mary Jodi Rell- as the alternative.
Worth a read. One thing's for sure: Mitt Romney isn't the answer, and neither is Mike Huckabee.
Sarah Palin might be- if only she had more experience.
Comments
Getting Jindal’s name out first — at Team McCain’s BBQ for instance — sets the stage for the obvious choice, Palin. For example, albeit Rush Limbaugh introduced Palin’s name, and later Jindal’s as good Veep choices, of late Rush has been praising the name of Jindal while on his very same shows discussing at great length the frustrated female Hillary voter and the global warming hysteria/need for energy development, without mentioning Palin’s name as the obvious beneficiary of those two issues. Rush walks a fine line, introducing Palin, yet can’t, at least yet, reiterate much, knowing that his praises may be counter-productive to many a swing, moderate and/or formerly Dem voter (who’s against Obama and switching to McCain). Moreover, while I feel that Palin has more real accomplishment, experience and qualification than Obama (and Hillary combined, albeit w/Obama the bar is pretty low), the only potential argument against Palin is she’s a newbie to the national scene. By having Jindal out there first as a VP prospect “passing” the “experience” and “new to the national scene” test, implicitly passes Palin as well. (For that matter Palin’s got as much if not more experience and accomplishment than Florida Gov Crist who’s only been Gov for 2 yrs — and the media has been touting Crist as a VP prospect.)
That’s my thinking at least.
There’s no reason, and actually substantial negative, in McCain waiting to see what the Dems do first insofar as his picking Palin as VP, because, no matter who Obama picks, Palin is by far (and I mean far) the best pick for McCain and the GOP, especially in this time of GOP woes. The GOP can be seen as the party of real ‘change’ (albeit I hate that mantra, change, change, bla bla), while not really having to change from GOP core conservative values, which Palin more than represents.
In light of the current oil/energy situation, as well as the disaffected female Hillary voters situation, and growing focus on McCain’s age and health, Palin is more than perfect — now.
(Perhaps Team McCain is already on to this.)
Not dissing Palin, you understand. But I'm intrigued by Rell.