Each member of Mitten's short list for VP has problems... [View all]
They each have some significant Achilles heels:
Rob Portman--He was Bush's budget director--if they are going to run a campaign about how Obama is big spender--how are they going to defend selecting as VP a guy who was budget director for a president who took the biggest surplus in US history--under President Clinton--to the biggest deficit in US history--Dumbya.
Tim Pawlenty--yes, he is boring, but furthermore he is a big example of what GOP policies are all about. Neglecting our infrastructure at home to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Remember the Minnesota Bridge disaster of 2007--Pawlenty knew it was unstable and twice vetoed a bill to provide funds for infrastructue rebuilding.
Condi--We go all out on the Bush foreign policy that got us bogged down in Iraq.
Marco Rubio--He spent $100,000 on a state credit card apparently for personal use.
Paul Ryan--The Ryan budget--cutting social security and Medicare as we know it to provide more tax cuts to corporations and millionaires.
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