Would Barack Obama consider Rendell for VP running mate?

Answer 1

Gov. Ed Rendell will BE the Vice Presidential nominee. He of all the name office-holders best serves the most compelling of the Obama campaigns needs. Besides bagging Pennsylvania, he is 1)The least objectionable and probably closest FOB and FOH of the prospects 2) Is the best demographic fit with Ohio voters 3) Jewish, offering Obama a huge leg up in FLA. 4) He is a middle-class moderate who is the former Chairman of the DNC (Unity, unity, unity) 5) His strength is pocketbook domestic issues (bucked Unions and instituted an Rx program in Penn), i.e. he helps most with white middle-class men.

6) His lack of national foreign policy experience is his weakness and its preferrable to being out of touch with working-class white men. Particularly in what is shaping up as a election that will turn on a souring economy.

7) He blows the 'elitist' label out of the water. Particularly if McCain chooses Romney.

8) His having been kept out of the national limelight will make his choice seem an energizing stroke of genius. Which is probably why the 3 dwarves (Kaine, Bayh and Biden) have been so publicly paraded.

RICHARDSON is the other great choice, but the Clinton's will not allow him to be rewarded for what they regard as his treachery.