Captain Ed Morrissey does just that with his post this morning in Hot Air. Says Morrissey:
Mitt Romney, a former Governor, may be best positioned of all, though, on the economy. If Romney gets selected for McCain’s running mate, he will be the only one of the four principals who has actually run a business, and run it successfully. He knows more about economic policy in both academic and practical terms than any of them, and hits Barack Obama in his key strength among voters.
Michigan is in play as it is, but as Morrissey points out, even more so with Romney.
Romney (and Pawlenty and Blunt) also have another quality that Joe Biden lacks: potential to deliver battleground states. Speculation about Michigan appears to have a solid basis in fact. In May, Survey USA tested a McCain/Romney ticket against several different iterations of an Obama ticket. Surprisingly, it beat every single possibility, but was especially strong against an Obama/Biden ticket:
vs Obama/Biden: +18
vs Obama/Clinton: +5
vs Obama/Gore: +5
vs Obama/(John) Edwards : +3
I’ve also heard that Romeny’s addition on the ticket benefits in Nevada and (I cannot believe this one) California. Romney will be terrific as an attack dog and will prove to be more presidential to voters than either Obama or Biden. His success in the private sector coupled with executive experience as a govenor of a large and important state puts his resume at the top.
I think I can speak for many republicans that in the event he is chosen, it will prompt a collective sigh of relief like no other past republican VP ever has.
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This post was written by bobsikes on August 25, 2008
Despite the Dems and the allied main stream media’s desperation to see Romney as McCain’s Veep, Mitt is clearly out, with (1) Obama doubling down on the class warfare theme (McCain’s 7 houses) and (2) McCain doubling down with ads showing the hypocrisy of Biden attacking Obama in the primaries — Romney did way more than that contra McCain.
This leaves only Govs Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty. Pro-abortion Ridge and Dem-Lieberman were never real considerations, despite relentless media goading. Pawlenty’s lackluster TV performances, coupled with Palin pizzazz, the primacy of oil drilling and the ticked off women/Hillary voters, does now portend a McCain/Palin checkmate on the Dems. This is so albeit the Dems and liberal media dare not mention Palin’s name, that is, everyone but…..
And if there’s any question as to Palin being uniquely positioned and able to more than nullify Biden in debate, see the excellent discussion at palinforvp.blogspot.com
Team McCain, well done!!!