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Russel Honore

An out of the box veep choice for Mac

Submitted by Ironman on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 05:56
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The current preoccupation among political junkies is trying to determine who will be McCain's Vice Presidential pick, and perhaps more importantly, who should be. Hence the floating of such non-household names at sites like RedState like RI Governor Don Carcieri or Congressman Mike Pence.   
 
Thinking things through. John McCain needs to make a VP pick that accomplishes a few things:
 
a) Passes the test of sufficient experience to credibly serve as President
b) Distances himself from failures of the Bush Administration
 
a third consideration is also the nominee preferably:
 
c) Does not have a record that would require fence mending with conservatives
 
As a result, such usual suspects as Lieberman, Ridge and Rice have one or more deficiency on this list; while newbies like Jindal and Palin fail the first test.
 
I also think despite the "rules" of "Baseball Crank" http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2008/05/politics_the_mc_1.php     there is a huge desire for a nonpolitician in the electorate--not just a non DC politician---but a desire for someone who has never stood for office.  Such a person might enhance McCain's image as being over the petty partisanship which we can be assured the Obamatons will descend to, and attract many of the "swamp yankee" independents who are of conservative temperament but think the current edition of Republicans have flopped..
 
Thinking along these lines I had earlier thought Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard,  would work . But the more I think about it, there is someone who could neutralize much of Obama's alleged "post-racial" positive qualities and also run rings around Obama's credentials to serve as commander-in-chief.
 
He has no known positions irritating to conservative activists and clearly breaks from one of Bush's most notorious failures. And he strongly reinforces the national security theme of Mac's campaign.
 
This is waaaay out of the box, but this would also be the sort of surprise pick that would capture the public's interest.
 
Why not recently retired General Russel Honore?
 

 

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