Increase Mather

By definition, any pol from NJ should be discounted. With the possible exception of Louisiana, NJ is the politically most corrupt state in the union. All Democrats (and even Republicans are Democrats in NJ) there steal and make deals with the Mafia.

Let's see how long Corzine can keep out of prison.

I live in NJ (unfortunately) and remember when Whitman came onto the political scene. In the backlash against Florio and Clinton she almost knocked off Bill Bradley in his Senate reelection race. Later, in her race for govenor she used the groundswell of anger against Florio and promised to repeal the assault gun ban, lower taxes and push for Initative and Referendum. She got my vote along with other pissed off NJ residents and was elected.

And guess what, 15 years later we still have the most restrictive and arcane gun laws in the nation, the highest taxes in the nation and still no Initiatve and Referendum. NJ is broke and "Christie" had a big role in getting us there. The democrats have done more than their fair share of sending this state down the sewer, but "Christie" got the ball rolling. This state is so corrupt and messed up more than half of the residents want to leave! Can you hear that Mort?

When she ran for reelection, I and a lot others did not vote for her and she was barely got back in aginst McGreevey (the other Jersey Joke). She squandered the opportunity she was given and the citizens of NJ are still paying for it. If McCain wants to loose then he should listen to "ole Mort", because picking a looser like her for a running mate will get him what we now have in NJ!

I don't understand why Mort thinks Rush will care what McCain does. I have a feeling he is one of those who doesn't listen to Rush, but forms his ideas about what Rush thinks based upon what other libs say.  Rush has more or less said that he isn't rooting for the Republican. Rush said that he is not a Republican, but a conservative. He says conservatives will fare better if we can get enough Republicans in Congress to oppose a Dem in the White House. His fear is that if McCain gets in the Republicans will go along with his harebrained liberal ideas for the sake of party unity.

I like the comment by Joel. Kay Baily H. is a terrific Senator in her own right . She has said she would accept a VP draft but was not comfortable campaigning for it . She would bring some genuine gravitas to a feeble Republican ticket.

THAT'S THE PROBLEM!!!!!!!

   Well it's really quite simple.  If obama get's the nomination then MaCain chooses a woman VP to get the dissapointed democrat women's vote. If hillary gets the nomination McCain picks a minority person to pick up some of barry's people.  McCains a shoe-in.

CTW as a VP candidate? What the hey! If "Mayday" McCain wants to relive the experience being shot down and then tortured for 5 years, I say go ahead. She's even on board with that whole AGW bullshit. What could possibly go wrong?

The only thing that matters is what McCain wants.  If McCain is like most every other president in history, he'll want a VP that won't outshine him.  Most everyone discussed so far would attract too much attention away from the beneficent McCain during his presidency.

McCain will gravitate towards a wallflower, a human snooze machine - think Al Gore, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman.  Since McCain himself is no barnburner, except for his infamous temper tantrums, he'll need someone that makes watching paint dry an Olympic sport.

As an Ohioan, perfect wallflowers for McCain's VP would be Voinovich or Taft.  These two could be on fire and no one would notice.

RRAM Tough! 

Women might like Whitman, African-Americans might, and independents might.  But will a Republican president ever be elected without most of the Republican votes?  Not likely.  Either that, or we pin a "kick me" sign on the Republican elephant.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.