Come together?

Unity takes two. Obama has never suggested that Hillary is unfit to take office - Hillary has said so on several occasions. How could HRC run as VP with a president she said is unfit to be commander in chief?

most likely the only way BHO could salvage my vote if he cheated his way to the nomination would be taking Hillary as his Veep. With that being said, I don't know how I would feel about that, considering I don't want Hillary to be associated with such a surely abysmal adminstration.

If choosing a VP is about unity perhaps it should be about what 'unites' the nation as a whole, not what 'unites' the voters one side of the aisle.

   What does hillary get him that some other V.P. possibility (like Sebelius) doesn't?

please ignore

...playing second fiddle behind him, Obama just might make such an offer.  That way, the onus (if there is one) would be hers.

Then again, as I recall, Jack Kennedy offered the vice presidency to Lyndon Johnson because he knew that LBJ would never accept playing second fiddle behind him.

OK,

Here is my opinion of what is going to happen.  Hillary will get very close but without MI and FL she will be just behind BO.  HRC supporters will be upset because MI and FL get shafted but HRC has no choice but to quit.  But there will be an immediate call for her to be BO VP and this will gain momentum as we get closer and closer to the convention. And BO numbers against McCain will hold with a slight lead.

Then it will be decision time.  BO will see the poll numbers showing that if he picks someone other than HRC for the VP her supporters will either go south or vote for McCain.  This would be my 75 year old mother in law.  If he picks someone else then HRC supporters will feel deflated and pissed because of how close it was and the MI and FL vote was not counted.  Thus, this will allow HRC supporters to say "BO" screwed us and our candidate and well screw him.  If he picks someone other than HRC, these voters will be really upset and with the election just three months away there will not be time to heal these wounds and IMHO BO we will lose in Nov.  If he picks HRC then there will be a huge surge in support from HRC supporters, especially older women, to a unity ticket.  And of course all the free press for the UNITY ticket.  This knocks McCain off his message and the unity ticket dominants the news for at least a two or three weeks.

And one last thing.  No you are wrong.  This is just my opinion I have no idea what will really happen.

david

I'd thought the idea absurd, but Sullivan makes quite the case.

Obama won't do it.  Period.  He wants the person in the VP spot to be the most qualified person to carry on his policies and politics if something happens to him.  

Clinton, for all of her strengths, is not someone who will act even close to how Obama would.  She is not in favor of the transparent and diplomatic government that Obama endorses.  He doesn't trust her not to lie to the American people (the recent gas tax fiasco is enough proof of that).

Furthermore, he doesn't want to be looking over hsi shoulder for eight years wondering when the shoe is going to drop.  No, I'm not saying Clinton would have him assassinated; that doesn't mean, however, that there wouldn't be opportunities for her to have new scandals or start meddling in ways that cause trouble and shake public confidence in the administration.  I believe, for example, that there's even a lawsuit pending for her 2000 Senate campaign finances having some fraud accusations... that hasn't seen much light recently, but if she's the vice president (or even the VP nominee), you can be sure that all the questionable acts, people, and institutions both Clintons have been involved with will become daily news.  That's not my bias, that's just an observation after surviving the '90s.

One of the biggest jokes i have heard this election is that HRC will do anything to win.  Like BO wont do anything or what it takes to win.  And frankly i dont want a democratic candidate who is not will to do what it takes to win.  And lets not kid ourselfs BO has shown he will do anything to win.  And if he looks at the polls and focus groups and he comes to the conclusion that he needs HRC on the ticket to win then he will.  That is just my opinion.  Because the botton line is if BO doesnt win he is done.  He will not get another chance at the white house if loses.  Reagan did this in 1980 and JFK in 1960.  

david

I agree with you.  "Strategic" VP spot picks are overrated, and bringing these two, currently bickering halves of the party together would do more to help turn the White House blue than any other pick.  

I'd say it would be bad because, to be frank, America may ready for really only one, not two white males on a single ticket. Too much change at one time would undoubtedly backfire. Its a shame no one will admit it, but I guess its the politically incorrect truth. Either will need a white male on the ticket to win.

Can he unite the Democratic Party? If not, he's no uniter. He can start uniting the party by finding a solution to the Florida and Michigan problem.

hey how about  Ron Paul for VP ?

hmmmmm ??

that would cause such a stir

It started when Pat Buchanan started gushing admiration for how Bill Clinton was marginalizing Obama as the 'black' candidate leading up to NC. Then Scaife, Hannity, Scarborough and crew started jumping to Hillary's defense and aiming alll there invective at Obama.

But the Neo-Con Weekly Standard has finally practically endorsed Hillary. In a recent article they are positively smitten with the new Hillary writing:

"She's running a right-wing campaign. She's running the classic Republican race against her opponent, running on toughness and use-of-force issues, ..... And she's doing it with much the same symbols."

"And better--or worse--she is becoming a social conservative, a feminist form of George Bush. Against an opponent who shops for arugula, hangs out with ex-Weathermen, and says rural residents cling to guns and to God in unenlightened despair at their circumstances, she has rushed to the defense of religion and firearms, while knocking back shots of Crown Royal and beer."

"She might run to the right of McCain, if she makes it to the general election, and get the votes of rebellious conservatives. Or she, Lieberman, and McCain could form a pro-war coalition, with all of them running to pick up the phone when it rings in the small hours."

The Weekly Standard is suitably impressed with Hillary's conversion. They note they are not the only wingnuts warming up to Hillary quoting a post on National Review's blog, The Corner:

   "She's entering the culture war as a general. All of this has made her a far more formidable general election candidate. She's fighting the left and she's capturing the center. She's denounced MoveOn.org. She's become the Lieberman of the Democratic Party."

When right wing scumbags feel like you have adopted their methods, principles and ideals you really have lost your way.