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Politics : MITT ROMNEY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (2891)	3/16/2008 9:14:28 PM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 5586

Mitt Romney Hailed as Best VP Candidate Two leading conservative commentators have called for presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain to choose his former rival Mitt Romney as a running mate. Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard, said McCain’s choice should be from among “known political heavyweights” who would be accepted immediately as ready to replace the president if necessary, and observed that the list of plausible choices is short. He discussed several possible candidates: Joe Lieberman is a friend of McCain, backs the Iraq war, and would likely appeal to independents and moderate Democrats. But he is a liberal on domestic issues, including abortion, and would hurt McCain among social conservatives. Rudy Giuliani is also pro-choice and would likewise alienate social conservatives. Fred Thompson is close to McCain, but he ran a disappointing presidential campaign and McCain needs a running mate who is more “vibrant.” Foreign policy and economic conservatives would “scream bloody murder” if McCain chooses Mike Huckabee, according to Barnes. Several Republican governors, including Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and Charlie Crist of Florida, don’t have the stature needed to enhance the McCain ticket. “That leads to Romney,” Barnes writes in The Weekly Standard. “He has run a vigorous national campaign and been vetted by the press and his opponents for the Republican nomination. These are very strong pluses.” Romney is acceptable to social conservatives, strong in debates, and as a former business executive, could counterbalance McCain’s “admitted weakness on economic issues.” President Bush favors Romney as the GOP vice presidential candidate, and his former political strategist Karl Rove reportedly favors him as well. Another Weekly Standard editor, founder Bill Kristol, agrees with Barnes, the Detroit Free Press reported. “Mitt Romney would be good,” Kristol said at the Michigan Political Leadership Program’s recent fundraising dinner in Livonia, Mich. He added that Romney would bring youth and economic vigor to the McCain ticket.