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Monday, May 05, 2008
A possible McCain-Jindal ticket
Bill Kristol touts the possibility of John McCain putting Bobby Jindal on his ticket.Maybe that’s why, in separate conversations last week, no fewer than four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal. They’re tempted by the idea of picking someone so young, with real accomplishments and a strong reformist streak.Perhaps the McCain team is really looking at Jindal, but I think that would be so wrong. The guy has just been governor for a few months! He served in Congress for two terms. He has great potential and I'm very excited about his political potential. There is hope now for Louisiana to rise from the morass of corruption and awful policies that have tainted that state for so long. Right now Louisiana needs him more as governor than the country needs him as vice president. If he achieves even half of what supporters think he might as governor, let's talk about his national destiny. But don't move him out before his time.
It might also be a way to confront the issue of McCain’s age (71), which private polls and focus groups suggest could be a real problem. A Jindal pick would implicitly acknowledge the questions and raise the ante. The message would be: “You want generational change? You can get it with McCain-Jindal — without risking a liberal and inexperienced Obama as commander in chief.” I would add that it was after McCain spent considerable time with Jindal in New Orleans recently, and reportedly found him, as he has before, personally engaging and intellectually impressive, that the campaign’s informal name-dropping of Jindal began.
One of the strongest positives that McCain has going into a race against Obama is Obama's inexperience. Why give up that trump card by picking someone with little more experience than Obama?
When it comes to the criteria that McCain should use, he should heed the advice in this post by Don McLaughlin on the "McCain Veepstakes Rules." I agree with every one of these rules. Perhaps unsurprisingly McLaughlin ends up where I ended up in January - with Governors Pawlenty of Minnesota or Sanford of South Carolina. I'm not on the bandwagon for picking Mitt Romney for the bottom of the ticket although I rather liked Romney. While Romney would probably make a very good vice president, he doesn't bring all that much to the ticket. I'd prefer to see him in a cabinet position where his managerial experience would be best utilized. But before we can talk about cabinet positions, we need to win the election and I don't see Romney doing much to help McCain accomplish that. The whole coverage of a Romney pick would be rehashing every dark look or negative jibe that the two gave each other in the campaign. All the speculation would be about what they really think of each other instead of where it should be in the atmosphere of a vice presidential pick - talking about what the nominee brings to the ticket.Labels: John McCain
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Bill Kristol touts the possibility of John McCain putting Bobby Jindal on his ticket.
One of the strongest positives that McCain has going into a race against Obama is Obama's inexperience. Why give up that trump card by picking someone with little more experience than Obama?
When it comes to the criteria that McCain should use, he should heed the advice in this post by Don McLaughlin on the "McCain Veepstakes Rules." I agree with every one of these rules. Perhaps unsurprisingly McLaughlin ends up where I ended up in January - with Governors Pawlenty of Minnesota or Sanford of South Carolina. I'm not on the bandwagon for picking Mitt Romney for the bottom of the ticket although I rather liked Romney. While Romney would probably make a very good vice president, he doesn't bring all that much to the ticket. I'd prefer to see him in a cabinet position where his managerial experience would be best utilized. But before we can talk about cabinet positions, we need to win the election and I don't see Romney doing much to help McCain accomplish that. The whole coverage of a Romney pick would be rehashing every dark look or negative jibe that the two gave each other in the campaign. All the speculation would be about what they really think of each other instead of where it should be in the atmosphere of a vice presidential pick - talking about what the nominee brings to the ticket.
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Bill Kristol touts the possibility of John McCain putting Bobby Jindal on his ticket.
Maybe that’s why, in separate conversations last week, no fewer than four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal. They’re tempted by the idea of picking someone so young, with real accomplishments and a strong reformist streak.Perhaps the McCain team is really looking at Jindal, but I think that would be so wrong. The guy has just been governor for a few months! He served in Congress for two terms. He has great potential and I'm very excited about his political potential. There is hope now for Louisiana to rise from the morass of corruption and awful policies that have tainted that state for so long. Right now Louisiana needs him more as governor than the country needs him as vice president. If he achieves even half of what supporters think he might as governor, let's talk about his national destiny. But don't move him out before his time.
It might also be a way to confront the issue of McCain’s age (71), which private polls and focus groups suggest could be a real problem. A Jindal pick would implicitly acknowledge the questions and raise the ante. The message would be: “You want generational change? You can get it with McCain-Jindal — without risking a liberal and inexperienced Obama as commander in chief.” I would add that it was after McCain spent considerable time with Jindal in New Orleans recently, and reportedly found him, as he has before, personally engaging and intellectually impressive, that the campaign’s informal name-dropping of Jindal began.
One of the strongest positives that McCain has going into a race against Obama is Obama's inexperience. Why give up that trump card by picking someone with little more experience than Obama?
When it comes to the criteria that McCain should use, he should heed the advice in this post by Don McLaughlin on the "McCain Veepstakes Rules." I agree with every one of these rules. Perhaps unsurprisingly McLaughlin ends up where I ended up in January - with Governors Pawlenty of Minnesota or Sanford of South Carolina. I'm not on the bandwagon for picking Mitt Romney for the bottom of the ticket although I rather liked Romney. While Romney would probably make a very good vice president, he doesn't bring all that much to the ticket. I'd prefer to see him in a cabinet position where his managerial experience would be best utilized. But before we can talk about cabinet positions, we need to win the election and I don't see Romney doing much to help McCain accomplish that. The whole coverage of a Romney pick would be rehashing every dark look or negative jibe that the two gave each other in the campaign. All the speculation would be about what they really think of each other instead of where it should be in the atmosphere of a vice presidential pick - talking about what the nominee brings to the ticket.
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