Thursday 5 June 2008

McCain's Black Running Mate?

Of course, it would depend who it was.

But McCain is far too anti-Bush for it to be Rice. And it can't possibly be Alan Keyes, the man Obama beat for the Senate.

So who? And why?
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5 comments:

  1. Martin Meenagh5 June 2008 at 21:26

    McCain would be silly to be tokenistic. If he was being so, JC Watts of Oklahoma (now in business, but he was in the House) or Bobby Jindal (too young really, but governor of Louisiana) spring to mind. Or Colin Powell, who probably is just not interested.

    Why not go for Hillary Clinton's famed voting bloc, which I'm not sure I believe in, with Sarah Palin of Alaska or Carly Fiorentino?

    It's all very interesting in its way!

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  2. David Lindsay6 June 2008 at 00:26

    As an anonymous comment on a previous post out it, if Clinton really had this voting bloc, then Obama would never have beaten her from a standing start.

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  3. Anonymous9 June 2008 at 00:14

    Actually Keyes would be interesting, given the extent that the Obama phenomenon is really just one big anti-racist bubble. Sooner or later that bubble is going to have to burst, and whilst it might be more interesting if that happens whilst he's President I'm not at all sure it will last that long.

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  4. David Lindsay9 June 2008 at 00:37

    Keyes didn't do much to burst Obama's bubble the last time he tried.

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  5. Anonymous10 June 2008 at 19:58

    Er, that's not quite the point I was making. There's no chance at all of McCain choosing an anti-gay Catholic like Keyes to be his running mate. The anti-racist "bubble" effect only works for leftwing politicians anyway (because rightwing black are condemned as race-traitors), but having a black candidate on the ticket could effectively nullify McCain's one big advantage over Obama (other than his name, perhaps). Obama could then carry on floating along on a politically correct breeze, possibly even to the White House itself.

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