Then there’s the fact that ‘running mate’ is also White House code for ‘insurance policy.’ In order to buck that irksome trend we’ve seen over the past forty years - the tendency of America’s best-loved leaders to get brutally gunned-down - these guys are smart to follow a tried-and-true formula for picking the next-in-line: If you’re a Democrat: Pick a VP your enemies hate more. If you’re a Republican: Pick a VP your friends like less. So, the obvious pick for Obama? Clearly, it has to be a woman. Highly Charismatic. Principled. Diplomatic. A Strategic Leader - ESPECIALLY one with first-hand military know-how. And that could only be… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gorn1AQWgw&feature=related As for McCain? Of course, he’d be wise to choose someone OLDER than himself. A Maverick - yet Incorruptible. A True-Blue Champion of America’s Vital Interests. An independent guy who brews his own beer and won’t conform to the chattering crowds. Who else, but…. http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/

I’m for McCain choosing Rev. Hagee. However, I am also leaning toward Joe Lieberman because then perhaps the Democrats would be rid of him with no questions about it, once an for all.