Flash: Rick Santorum sweeps the deep South….Mississippi & Alabama
“We hold these truths to be self-evident……” Mitt Romney will be the nominee after an exhausting primary battles…….and then the pontification will begin on who will be the person that gets the nod as Mitt’s running mate….the VP candidate…..most of the important polls, and there are so many of them, shows that the GOP has serious problems with moderates/independents/women and Latinos…..they need help….lots of help!
I know I am a bit premature in my predictions….but I will be able to go back and tell everyone …”I Told You So!” and if I am mistaken we will never speak of it again……
First, let us look at the media’s man crush….Chris Christie of New Jersey ….Romney does not need help in the Northeast where there are many moderates so Christie will be low on the list…plus he said he was not interested, but that is just crap….if asked he will jump on it!
Next is Pawlenty the former governor of Minnesota….he is too much like Romney….white, boring and untrustworthy by the base…..
The name that many have thrown around is Daniels of Indiana….he has said that he is not interested……that also is crap….he and his work with trying to make Indiana a right to work state would not fly well with Lunch pail Repubs………
Then there was the one most everyone in the media was betting on….McDonnell of Virginia….but he crapped all over his chances with the ultra sound debacle….and now he has signed a less intrusive form of the procedure but still will NOT fly well with women voters…he kissed his own ass good-bye.
Paul Ryan of Wisconsin has been thrown into the mix…mostly by conserv media types….he would not play well in the South and moderates may like him somewhat but is he strong enough to carry Mitt where he needs help? Nope, too much a numbers person that cannot relate to us mere mortals…..makes him like Mitt…..boring and outta touch….
Bobby Jindal of Louisiana…….would help in the South and that is about the extent of his credentials….he is too Mitt-esque to appeal to the whole country….besides he is a Hindu…not true but I thought i would see if it would go viral…..
I am not ruling out some fancy foot work like what the McCain campaign did with Palin…..but without some totally unsuspected thing like in 2008 which was disastrous…..who would I see as the VP candidate?
In my opinion it will be…….(insert drum roll and trumpets blaring here)……Marco Rubio! Mitt has a real problem with Latinos, Rubio would help………Mitt has a real problem with social conservs, Rubio would help……and because of his stand with Blunt on the contraception thingy he may play well in the South….an area that Mitt just cannot catch a break in……
I am sorry….but Mitt and whoever he picks will have a hard time defeating Obama in November……women will be the most sought out demographic and they may well be the decider in the election….but since Romney has a low rating among Latinos I feel he will go to Rubio to try and seal the deal…….
The perfect candidate would be a female Latina…..but I do not think the GOP would go for that…especially after the beating they took in 2008…….
Any thoughts?
Interesting. One thing’s for sure. If Mitt does win, and I agree he probably will, he needs to worry less about the extreme right in the South and go after the moderates and Independents around the country who are going to swing this vote his or Obama’s way. Obama alone is the only incentive the white majorities in the South will need to vote for any GOP team that gets put out there. Their hate for Obama exceeds their hate for any Romney-esqe characters in the GOP, IMO, and that’s what Romney’s campaign will feed off of.
It is true, whites in the South hate and I mean hate, Obama and they will fall in behind whoever the GOP nominee is……Santorum got 80% of the white evangelical voters in Mississippi and that is where Romney has a problem…he needs to be pulled into their thought stream and he will be sitting pretty….