Huntsman for VP... Obama's VP...:)

Silvio.Dante

Remember you read it here first!

Biden's had his time in the sun and has performed his service admirably.

However an Obama/Huntsman ticket would be unbeatable...

spank_inferno

Silvio.Dante wrote: »

Remember you read it here first!

Biden's had his time in the sun and has performed his service admirably.

However an Obama/Huntsman ticket would be unbeatable...

Perhaps.... but I don't see any reason why.

Though it will be no landslide, Obama is likely to be re-elected.
Without any dire need to shake things up, I see no reason why Obama would drop Biden from the ticket.

That said, Huntsman would probably be a fine VP, but I just can't see any reason why the Dems would bother changing.

Amerika

While it might seem practical, perhaps even politically necessary, to replace Biden as VP on the ticket... for Obama to pick Huntsamn would be a shameless ploy designed only to get badly needed votes. Take for instance a part of an interview Huntsman gave, about his feelings on Barack Obama, to Mother Jones. No one in their right mind would pick a running mate, especially from the opposing party, who publicly felt about them in this manner... unless of course it was politically expedient and winning was all that matters to you.

Corn: I'm intrigued by the argument you are making about restoring trust which runs counter to the emotional narrative that the other candidates are talking about. But in what way do you think the current occupant in the White House has failed on the trust level?

Huntsman: Well, an example would be that when given the first two years to lead out on the economy, he failed to do so. When given a chance to address Afghanistan--drawing down troops when we've done everything we can do—he has failed to do so. When he had an opportunity to embrace a bipartisan deficit spending proposal called Simpson-Bowles, it hit the garbage can. You get enough of these, and a kind of a pathology emerges here. People say, there's no more trust in the executive branch. There was an opportunity to lead, and it wasn't taken.

Corn: But are these trust issues, or are these policy differences? There was the stimulus. Afghanistan was a long [policy] review--whether you agree or not—

Huntsman: They're all corrosive on the overall trust issue. When you run against crony capitalism and you have the Solyndras of the world pop up. There's enough there to raise the issue of trust.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/huntsman-obama-pathology-trust-new-hampshire

RichieC

Hillary Clinton, hardly rocket science.

matthew8

Jon Huntsman is actually quite right wing once you get past his views on science. Besides, he opposes obamacare, which probably means that he's a barbarian according to you.

FatherTed

If it's not Joe again it will be Hilary. Huntsman? Now that's a good one

Silvio.Dante

FatherTed wrote: »

If it's not Joe again it will be Hilary. Huntsman? Now that's a good one

It is, isn't it. Build a coalition of the centre. Ingenius if I do say do myself...:)