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Will Romney be announced as McCain's v.p. this week?

A columnist from the Washington Post is speculating that the questionable news story about McCain naming a vice-presidential nominee is no more than an attempt to shift briefly away from Obama in the Middle East and to McCain without any real intention of naming a vice-presidential campaign. We will see.

Why would McCain pick Romney? He is still LDS. Would people in the "Bible Belt" vote for Romney as VP? I don't think so. If you think they would why? What has changed since Romney ran for President. He would be too close to being President.

Mitt will help deliver the state of Utah! Ha Ha Ha Ha...McCain ain't got a chance! He's a dunderhead!

No Mitt!

If the LDS leaders can brazenly instruct Californians how to vote without the church losing its tax-exempt status, they would not hesitate to pressure a Mormon government leader to structure society according to their wishes.

Mitt as VP? McCain may well die in office (he's old!) and Mitt woulc then be president. The LDS leadership would then be in charge of the country.

No Mitt!

Imagine what this clown and McSame could do to this country in just 4 years. The worst president ever, Bush, would sound good when these elitists got through.

I think Mitt would bring much business and economics weight to McCain's run, along with some badly needed gravitas. However, I don't think Romney adds a large voter base. But who exactly fits that these days in the Republican camp?

It would also be a great platform for Mitt to run again in '12 against Obama (already a done deal in the media).

Mitt Romney as VP is the ONLY way that I'm voting for McCain!

Mitt would be good for McCain but McCain would not be good for Mitt!! As far as the previous posts by Dude, AWB and Oldman, They need help! They eat too many sour grapes!

I don't think that McCain's personal dislike for Romney will be a factor in picking him for V.P., after all he was held prisoner and tortured in Vietnam for 5 years, so he can probably stand to hang with Mitt for a few months. The real reason that Mitt won't be chosen, is that neither of the two candidates have Christian street creds. McCain seems to be luke warm on the religion thing, and the evangelicals will rip Romney's mormonism to pieces. As much as I would like to see McCain create this doomed ticket, he won't pick Romney.

That would be an exciting ticket. Someone we can trust and who would follow through with what he has promised.

Aside from offending Bible belters, Mitt's opposition to fuel efficiency standards in the automobile industry and his backroom deals with Ted Kennedy to block wind power in Massachusetts shows that he is completely out of touch with dealing with America's energy crisis. He said that fuel efficiency standards would hurt jobs in Detroit -- sorry, but the very gas guzzling cars that Detroit decided on its own to build is what is killing the American auto industry -- not mandates for fuel efficiency. And wind mills would look bad off the Massachusetts coast despite wind energy being clean and price stable for 20 years! Aesthetics over economics for Mitt and Ted!!! Mitt may be able to bring in Utah for McCain, but the black vote will bring the south to Obama if Bible-belters don't like Mitt, and the high-tech sectors excited about Obama's promise of $150 billion in investments in domestic, price-stable renewable energy will bring California and other high-tech states on board as well. Mitt will be a bigger liability than asset.

The talk about Mitt is to take away the cameras and news from Obama. Obama is loved by the world for lots of good reasons. Wait until you see the Germans go for him!!

The GOP needs to take everyone's eyes off of the fact that the world wants Obama because they have had it with Bush and the GOP. Frankly, it would be nice to have a president that the world likes, will listen to, etc. What a relief that would be, and how good that would be for us!!

honestly does it really matter? McCain is not a great choice, and Obama is even worse. We have no one to vote for who will help the country, and lower our taxes, gas prices, unemployment, and heighten our national security (and by the way, my fellow conservatives, going to war everywhere is NOT the way to heighten national security), but all you libs out there... neither is pandering to the terrorists.

Someone here said that the Mormons will run Romney, they never have yet. He made all kinds of bad decisions as governor. And which would be better a Christian religion running a V. Pres, or left wing lunatics running a US pres with zero experience?

I think Mitt does bring voters. He had an extremely respectable showing in the Primaries and he has handily won nearly every internet poll run in the last two weeks and there have been around 12 of them or so. I can only think of one that he lost actually.

Don't worry, not everyone is a biggot and everyone is not foolisg.

I still find it hilarious that all these people won't vote for Romney strictly because he's a Mormon. There are at least five other solid reasons not to vote for the guy, but come on, leave the religious bigotry out of it and base your disdain on something reasonable, like policy.

LOL AWB...you're funny. Your paranoia is laughable. "The LDS leadership would then be in charge of the country."

Oh no, the sky is falling...

Heaven forbid a Mormon might be in the White House some day...when we could have a Trinity United Church follower there instead. I mean with a spiritual leader like Jeremiah Wright for 20+ years it would be a shame to have an LDS president.

Get over your paranoia, Mitt will soon have 1 foot in the door, with the other to follow some day.

Mitt would be better off sitting this one out, I won't vote for McCain even if Mitt runs with him. The anti-LDS comments from McCain's mother with McCain giggling did it for me. McCains disdain for Mitt was real and everyone saw it. McCain hated Mitt and still has a hard time saying anything nice about the family.

Romney should sit this election out.

Call me a "typical white person". Obama needs to get a brain, along with anyone else who votes for him. "Hope" doesn't pay the rent. If Mitt is McCain's running mate he can help our economy with his expertise and experience in finances, not to mention resolving the border issue.

"Hope" doesn't pay the rent. At lest Mitt is experienced enough in economics. And what does religion have to do with it? Are you saying we can vote for Obama because he's black but not for Mitt because he is LDS? Sound a little hypocritical.

Selecting Romney will only make the inevitable Obama presidency a sure thing. The entire south, generally a GOP stronghold, will go solidly for Obama. The Christian Right will stay home instead of voting for a ticket with a mormon on it. A Romney selection will put a lock on the white house for Obama.