If we are going to do our traditional \u201cguess the vice-president\u201d game, we\u2019d better hurry, since, reportedly, Mitt Romney will announce his choice before the Republican convention.<\/p>\n
It seems to me that the conventional wisdom that the vice president doesn\u2019t matter is wrong on several levels.\u00a0 The person who holds that office has assumed the presidency quite often, not just when the president dies in office but as the heir apparent as the next party nominee.\u00a0 In light of that, the casual way presidential nominees have tended to pick their running-mates seems to me to be unconscionable.\u00a0 And if the office itself is \u201cnot worth a warm bucket of spit,\u201d as one statesman described it, that is due, in part, to few of the office holders taking advantage of its potential.\u00a0 The president of the Senate\u2013that is, the person who presides over the deliberations and who can break a tie vote\u2013could be a powerful position, especially when the body is closely divided as will probably be the case after this election.\u00a0 I think, at the very least, that the conventions should nominate and elect the vice presidential candidates.<\/p>\n
Back to our game:\u00a0 In addition to guessing who Romney\u2019s running-mate will be, I\u2019d like to hear who you would like it to be.\u00a0 That is, who would make you feel better about voting for the Romney ticket?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If we are going to do our traditional \u201cguess the vice-president\u201d game, we\u2019d better hurry, since, reportedly, Mitt Romney will announce his choice before the Republican convention. It seems to me that the conventional wisdom that the vice president doesn\u2019t matter is wrong on several levels.\u00a0 The person who holds that office has assumed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,36],"tags":[739,1473,2311],"class_list":["post-11952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","tag-election","tag-mitt-romney","tag-vice-presidency"],"yoast_head":"\n