"SMS" wrote in message ...

On 4/29/2011 4:37 PM, DGDevin wrote:

Mitt Romney is probably the most qualified of all the Republicans running.
But the religious right is suspicious of him because he's a member of LDS,
and the tea party people don't like him because despite his rhetoric about
Obama's health care reform plan, the plan he implemented in MA went
further than what Obama was able to get through. If he chooses a lunatic
as a running mate, he'll run into what McCain ran into, and lose all the
moderate Democrats and Independent votes (as well as many moderate
Republican votes). If he chooses a normal person as a running mate he'll
alienate the tea party faction, but realistically, those people have no
where else to go anyway.

My prediction is Romney/Pawlenty or Romney/Graham.

Good commentary. Plus it's Romney's turn, and the GOP does tend to take
that more seriously than the Dems who will choose real unknowns as
Presidential candidates quite often. Although I suppose there is the point
that when he was elected G.W. Bush had less executive experience than did
Barack Obama when he became President.