How many here expect Karl Rove to be Mitt's VP choice?

[Hubert Flottz]

The heat over the tax papers is getting so warm I'm thinking Mitt will make his pick known soon to deflect the attention from his Tax woes. Could be a wild choice if Mitt is forced to lay out his cards too soon. Could even be Jeb, Dick Cheney or Joe LIEberman?

[Wounded Bear]

1. Cardinal Richeliu himself, eh?

Wild speculation, but unlikely.

I suspect it wouldn't work well, either. Although it might deflect from Romney's troubles, it opens a big can of worms that NO conservative would want brought out into the light.

I can almost hear the Obama team chuckling at that prospect.

[randome]

17. Rove is no Cardinal Richeliu. He has always been over-estimated, IMO.

[NeverEnuff]

2. None of the Above

Nope, not going to happen. Bet he picks a fellow LDS like Huntsman.

[WI_DEM]

4. I don't think Huntsman would run with him...

and also two LDS on the ticket? Not likely.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. I'll bet you if Mitt was in the White House he'd

pardon Warren Jeffs on day one. I think Mitt is some kind of cultist fundy oddball too.

[WI_DEM]

3. KKKarl would be a horrible pick that even the media would tear apart, so not going to happen

Jeb=No he's waiting until 2016 and doesn't want to be associated with Romney.
The Dick= come on the guy has had how many heart attacks and now has a pig's heart? No.
Lieberman= that one isn't as inconceivable, but highly unlikely. He's pro-choice. Pro-gay rights. He voted for Obamacare and for the Stimulus.

[DJ13]

5. And come out of the shadows?

He'd burn up like a vampire in the sun.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. LOL

And if Karl Rove ever melts down the fallout would kill anything big enough to die!

[Proud Public Servant]

6. Are you kidding?

First of all, Rove has no electoral experience and gigantic negatives. There's just no way. (I'm trying to remember the last time the Veep pick was someone who had never before been elected to public office. I'm guessing Nixon's choice of Lodge in 1960.)

Edit: nope, turns out Lodge was once a senator before he went on to a career in diplomacy. Edit #2: turns out it was Sargent Shriver in '72; before him, it was Frank Knox on the GOP ticket in '36. Thanks for letting me get my geek on.

Second, Mitt needs someone who won't overshadow him -- he's already looking non-presidential enough.

It'll be a safe, boring choice.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. I thought the Skull and Boners drinking from skulls were strange.

But Magical Underwear?

I can only hope that Mitt pulls a John McSame trick and gives the nod to a ball and chain like Sister Palin.


Michele Bachmann comes to mind.(ouch)

[Jamaal510]

8. Nope. Karl is one of the GOP puppet masters.

Him jumping into the ring would bust the GOP plan wide open. He knows he needs to stay sort of behind the scenes and make attack ads.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Maybe Dick Armey or one of the Koch brothers?

Sara Palin???

Joe the Plumber????

[randome]

18. Not much of a puppet master the last few years, is he?

Palin? Romney? Yeah, Rove is our super-villain. NOT.

[Chorophyll]

11. The least likeable candidate ever

is probably not gonna choose someone even more universally disliked for his running mate. No way.

[HopeHoops]

13. Rove's a deviant bastard, but he couldn't debate his way out of a Burger King drive through.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. He looks a lot like Rush Limbo.

And acts like him too.

[HopeHoops]

16. He doesn't have the jelly-belly.

[IDemo]

15. Romney/Rasputin? Not likely