The narrative for choosing a running mate looks a lot like choosing the nominee. There are plenty of options, passionate feelings about who’d be best, and at the end of the day, the party learns to love the choice. For all of the discussion about playing to key states, adding foreign policy experience, or balancing a ticket’s ideology, the stark truth is that none of it really matters. In the end, there is only one imperative: don’t blow it.
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That's right. Mitt should pick someone boring and meaningless. Perhaps Ex-senator John Sununu. Although it's hard to believe that some who gets thrown out of office after one term by the people who know him best could be any use to a general election campaign. John will contiue to do best by staying home and letting the Mittster pay him to bloviate iin the Globe.
Who is our top bloviator? Joe Foghorn Biden.
But Biden was never such a poor representative of his consituents that he was returned to private life after a single term. John Sununu does not represent the majority of New Hampshire-born Republicans.
Unlike DE and MA, NH is a two-party state.
I hope he picks Sarah Palin.
Whom is Sununu worried about? Who, among the Romney short list, harm more than can help? Rubio? Ryan? Christie? Sen. Rob Portman is a safe choice, but the first three have decided strengths. Sorry John, I don't see any Ferraro's, Palin's and Quayle's on the horizon.
MA is a 2 party state. You just don't like the way we vote. I don't like the way you vote in your state.