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I guess some of the buzz is moving over to Rob Portman now. I won't pretend to be any Portman expert -- he has a resume that makes one say "Who? Oh... huh... I guess he sounds good".

Which is probably what Romney needs from a VP pick.

Huh. I was going to link to Portman's bio and this article was the top hit. Makes a case for it, anyway.

Longer than all of you.

NPR Political editor Ken Rudin is running a contest for picking Mitt's running mate. He claims there will be prizes.

Who Will Be Romney's Running Mate?

I meant one who bothers to post about politics more deeply than blanket ******** about the air and space programs.

I'd imagine that if gbaji went away, you'd see more conservative posters expressing their views.

This is the poisoned well syndrome. Gbaji has been so fervent about posting his conservative views, that he has poisoned the well for everybody else. Even if someone agreed with him completely, they would be afraid to post because he has everybody else riled up against conservatives with his overbearing way of posting. For being a conservative, he sure isn't conservative with his words.

Oh, and back on the topic of the thread, I have never heard of that guy the article Joph linked is about.

Maybe you give everybody else too little credit for being able to have a reasonable conversation with people who think differently than them. Or maybe I'm delusional.. Who knows?

He says he's not but, again, it's early April. I think the interest levels of a few potential VPs won't be real until we're closer to the convention and they see what sort of shape Romney is in. The up-n-comers won't want to hitch their wagon to a falling star and be embarrassed come November.

You know, I see conservatives complain about this a lot. Both sides are just as guilty. Conservatives and Fox News viciously attacked Hillary too, y'know. I think this particular issue has more to do with a lot of men in power not wanting to share that power with women, than left vs. right.

For what it's worth, the main thing that bothered me about Sarah Palin was that she's a moron. Although I will admit, the amount of times I read or saw someone talk about how they wanted to sleep with her was pretty disturbing too, but that wasn't her fault. I mean seriously, when Joe Biden makes you look stupid, that's pretty sad.

Given what sort of things Mitt has been saying for the last year or so, I would not consider him to be a moderate conservative. He used to be, for sure. But as someone else mentioned, he tries way too hard to pander to the extreme conservatives of the party, which is something McCain was guilty of as well. Frankly I wouldn't consider any of the Republican candidates to be moderates. If you support personhood bills, that essentially make birth control illegal, if you think Pres. Obama is a socialist, if you openly declare your disdain for gay people, etc., you are not a moderate you are a right wing nut job.

That's what the liberal media wants you to think.

Liberals only like smart women.

We're all over Elizabeth Warren. She's my pretend grandmother now.

And smart women are all liberal, right?