I thought Mittens was gonna endorse Hillary trying to get the VP slot. A perfect combo those two, Clinton/Romney 08. But the handwriting was on the wall and Mittens could see that Hillary's campaign is doomed.

So now Mitt's gonna suck up to McCain instead.

Romney? Rather be water boarded.

Does this mean that there gonna be on the same stage? This is gonna look just as bad as his photo embrace of Bush. (Yuck!) First he "embraces" Bush, and now he wants a photo with "Flip-flop Mitt." This on top of Hagee, Parsley, and his soon to be VP Lieberman. (Bomb Iran) McCain isn't even hiding his desperation to lead this country (into the ground) before he croaks. It's shameful, but then again he always was more a Democrat than a conservative Republican. When you return phone calls from Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and not members of your own party; Your NO Republican. We will stay home and he will go down in flames.

To see the love between these two after all they have been through is priceless. I will still vote for Ron Paul, but it is good to see these two bury the hatchet.

McCain would be wise to have Romney join him. There are two issues facing America right now: terrorism and a bad economy. McCain has the first issue and Romney has the second.

McCain/Romney would be an awesome ticket. And since the liberals and the mainstream media have basically given a pass to Obama's hatemongering church, they really can't go after Mitt's mormonism anymore, which as you all remember, pre Rev. Wright, they focused on 24/7.

Jason, put a fork in the Obama's, they're done.

Dave - Maybe Mitt can tell John that 100 years of war over there will make us really poor. I think that is a good place to start for improving the economy. Oh wait Mitt is belligerent towards Iran. Looks like he isn't so smart with our financial situation as you may think. Ron Paul gets it.

“Couple that with 8 years of failure by conservatives and you have a cocktail for a beatdown. How is John McCain going to inspire the voter turnout for his party? His great speeches? Conservative talk radio? His flip-flop talk express bus overstuffed with Lobbyists? We all love to engage in punditry but the facts are the facts. Repubs do not have the votes to win. Outside of a total collapse (And I mean TOTAL colapse, not merely a split of the electorate)the Dem party they can offer up a broccoli f-art in a jar and still gain the White House. What planet are you conservatives living on? Your Reagan Democrat pink cloud from 20+ years ago?”

I would rather have a "inexperienced" Democrat wasting a billion on helping the poor or disabled or uneducated, than have a neo-con Republican blow a billion on killing tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi and thousands of US service men and women.

In the last 8 years or so Republicans have shown me that they will do anything and everything in their power to keep you from retaining an opinion based on the facts that their incompetence is comprised of.

getcentered - I agree with much of what you just said. I must say though that if a dem is going to blow a billion here let's make sure we can at least pay for it. No more borrowing from oversees to pay for our extravagance.

Mitt would be the perfect choice because he would bring the current purple states of Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico into McCain's column, right away.
Mitt would also tighten up the polls for McCain in California, Oregon, and Washington state. In addition if Obama gets the Dem nod Mitt would put Massachusetts into play as the folks up there rejected him during the Dem primary. Mitt's a great speaker and his placement of a M & M tickett would increase donations to the McCain campaign.
Mitt's the perfect choice for these reasons............Republicans have an opportunity to sweep the "WESTERN" states with Mitt on the tickett not to mention probably help take Mid-Western states of Michigan, and Minnesota both states he won in the primary.........GO MITT!

If McCain selects the proven non-vote getter Mitt, his campaign will be sunk. Mitt would be about as good a candidate as Lieberman.

The best way to spend a billion helping the poor would be to get them a JOB, not pay for their life. Unfortunately, the Dems just enjoy taking from the rich to pay for the poor. Robin Hood is NOT someone to look up to.

Mitt and McCain would do a terrific job in the whitehouse, they're a terrific split of strengths. Obama and Hillary are basically the same person, but they're both so power-hungry neither will bow out.

Mitt just wants to have fun as VP on the ticket. Now is time for all who want to be on McCain's ticket to start some serious boot licking and butt kissing. McCain will select the one that offers him the best chance of winning POTUS.

Deb,

I don't think that McCain loves war. I think he, of all people, knows and understands just how terrible war really is. I applaud his slap in the face of W yesterday when he said that only a fool or a fraud would sentimentalize war. (Bush said to the troops that he sometimes envies them for the sense of adventure they must be having over there in Iraq).

However, I think that McCain and the neocon view of the conflict in the middle east is inherently flawed. There is no comparison between the Europe and Japan and the Iraq. None. In post-war Germany and Japan, they lost the war and were looking to move on - hoping to restore their place in the international world while rebuilding what was largely a giant pile of rubble that they referred to as their country. Those people, shamed by defeat that couldn't be denied, looked to us with optimism and hope that we could help restore their national identity and their social, political, and physical ruins.

In Iraq, there is no surrender. There was the possibility for that type of situation to take place, but the neocons (namely Rumsfeld and Cheney) squandered that opportunity by not providing the necessary troop levels from the outset. Three weeks in, when Baghdad fell and there were literally thousands of people in the streets waving American flags and kissing our soldiers who flawlessly executed that which was asked of them, we had the opportunity to help rebuild the country and work towards a situation where a presence similar to that of Germany or Japan would have worked. Instead, we were undermanned for the task. There were 7,000 troops in Baghdad, without clear orders as to what to do or how to secure the city and establish order. The looting and rioting soon followed after the disasterous decision to disband the Iraqi army and essentially unleash hundreds of thousands of heavily armed unemployed and angry men on the streets.

Now, the country doesn't have a national identity. There is no consensus among Iraqis, because the only thing that was previously holding the nation together as "Iraqis" was the tyrant saddam. Now you just have a bunch of crazy, unaffiliated militias hell bent on getting us (those who they see as the occupying force that led to the one million dead iraqis and the desecration of their national infrastructure and way of life) out of there.

The problem with McCain is precisely the same as the problem with Bush and his old-world advisors. They still do not have the ability to think of the world in its modern condition. Their minds are stuck in an era gone by - one in which only national goverments have any power or influence on the world stage. That proves false, and Iraq is the perfect example of it.

I only trust those who foresaw precisely what was going to occur in Iraq and had the courage to speak out against what they knew to be a foreign policy disaster. Bob Graham of my state of Florida was one of them. Jay Rockefeller was another. And the only one running for president was Obama.

Sure, John McCain didn't mean that he wanted or even anticipated the war to go on in its current form for 100 years, but the point is that given his flawed understanding of the situation as is - thats precisely what his policies, if unchecked, would result in.

Deb - There is no such thing as victory over there. Don't you get it. Unless you nuke the place, wait a long them, and then populate it with people that are like minded, things will not change. We had no business screwing things up over there just to give Iran more influence and give Al-Quaeda a foothold in Iraq. This isn't like Germany where most of those people believed as we do. This is a society that does not want to emulate our whorish ways, and which wants to maintain its tribal allegiances. Only a secular strongarm dictator can keep it together, but I guess we killed off that guy.

Finally a smart team to vote for McCain-Romney. As a democrat obama turns us off in TEXAS as a cheap talker, his voting record of "present" shows laziness & ignorance. Hillary has been attacked by the Democratic party ....hopefully she can run as an independant...she has to have pride....

This IS the winning ticket. The war on terror and the economy. done.

Mitt on the campaign - good. Mitt on the ticket - baaad. As Gov. of Babylon he basically agreed with his legislature: liberal social and economic agenda. But when he became a contender, he suddenly exits stage right! I actually did not mind Gov. Mitt that much, but his "situational morality" is disturbing. Besides, Mac needs someone that does not irritate him.

How many million does Mitt have to spend to help the cause? He might put in the dollars after consulting an actuarial table for someone who will be 72 on January 20, 2009 and figure the odds from there.

No big surprise here. Everyone knows McCain will be told to choose a younger conservative as his running mate. McCain made it clear that Romney has earned a significant place in the party.

McCain is a Bush clone he loves war and hopes he can keep the Iraq war going for 100 years...He is a war monger just like Bush, there is not a nickels diffence between them.The old coot needs to be out to pasture with Bush and his war buddy Cheney..A vote for McCain is a vote to kill another 5000 U.S.soldiers..He just does not get it..

McCain's emphasized he's not doing things AT ALL like Bush, au contraire he's going to do them RIGHT. BUT he won't raise taxes above Bush's, unlike Obama: Be prepared for massive taxation with Obama. On a $30K salary, you will pay $3,900 more per year with Obama than McCain, and Obama's looking to impose Federal Real Estate Taxes on houses over 2,400sf, 28% capital gains, 39.6% dividend tax, reimposing the estate tax, raising corporate taxes which will raise costs for ALL Americans. Obama plans 1.13Trillion in global give-aways. Watch out, or put your money where your mouth is, if you're for Obama.

If we abandon Iraq, we invide WWIII. al Qaeda, Hamas, Iran will rejoice in victory and say "Israel is next! We defeated the great Satan!" Israel has nukes, it will defend itself, Russia, China, the US will ALL be pulled in. The risk is too great. This generation has NO idea what real war is like. Stability is the only way to go, and the US is the only force that can implement it. Besides, Obama HIMSELF has acknowledged there will be genocide if Iraq is abandoned: I wonder if he doesn't care about that inasmuch as he's vowed not to help in Darfur, and then I wonder why he preemptively guaranteed not to help in Darfur (Christian extermination which Qadafi is behind as part of the Islamic Axis and Islamic USAfrica movement).

It would appear those who risk WWIII by abandoning Iraq really LOVE REAL WAR. The really lethal kind.

C'mon everybody... Hop on the Free ride express.

McCain + Romney = Perfect ticket

I said I'd never vote for McCain but if he picks Mitt Romney I will. I would rather see Romney run as an Independent and I'd do my best to see him elected.