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Is Mitt Serious About Condi?

bilken Wrote: Jul 17, 2012 10:24 AM
One statement that Rice made after the 2008 election was that Obama would be a fine choice as president. Tha one statement eliminates her on my agenda.
The first criterion in choosing a vice president, it is said, is that he or she must be qualified to be president.

Yet there is another yardstick by which candidates measure running mates. Do they bring something to the table? Can they help with a critical voting bloc? Can they bring a crucial state?

Lyndon Johnson is regarded as a brilliant choice by JFK, though his brother Bobby, among others in the Kennedy camp, loathed LBJ. LBJ locked up Texas and helped bring home five other former Confederate states for the Roman Catholic nominee from Boston.

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