Dumbest Veepstakes Ever?
- Posted by Beth on May 15th, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Candidates, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Politics VP watch
McCain Veepstakes at Salon.com. Shocking, I know. Choose how the candidate parts his or her hair carefully! (Idiots!) I got Kay Bailey Hutchison, oddly enough (I told you this quiz was silly), but Jeb was in my top 3. woot!
Here’s Obama’s veepstakes. My result was Senator Bill Nelson for him and Hillary’s pointless veepstakes. No surprise there - none of the Salon’s lib readers ended up with him on Obama’s veepstakes, although 1% did on Hillary’s. LOL.
So predictable that lefty Salon would have a vapid veepstakes to accompany their mindless adoration of a vapid candidate. LOL.
PaulW says:
That’s odd. When I did McCain’s Veepstakes poll I ended up with
1) Dana Scully
2) A.D. Skinner
3) Frohike
Who mixed up the php code between Salon and the XPhiles websites?!
Lord Bitememan says:
“Has the running mate endorsed:
John McCain
Some other old white guy ”
Those pricks!
Lord Bitememan says:
Incidently, when I did the Obama one it scored Janet Napolitano first, whom I wouldn’t even rate, and Bill Richardson second, who I think is the only good pick Obama could make.
On Hillary’s it put Wesley Clark as the pick, and he’s the absolute last guy I’d put on there. The best choice Hillary could make would be Mark Warner of Virginia, because he could actually flip Virginia.
PaulW says:
The problem with this veepstakes is obviously they’ve pre-programmed named ‘celebrity’-ish choices into prepackaged choices. Like as though ideology is the only way to define who gets to fit where. You could want a pro-life person as a Veep but still be comfortable with someone who the poll defines as pro-choice as long as you recognize they are qualified in other ways and that their pro-choice leanings is a secondary trait and not a primary trait.
And who’s to say Bob Graham wouldn’t make for an interesting Democrat VP? Who’s to say Arne Carlson, former Gov. of Minnesota and a big-time moderate, wouldn’t make for an interesting Republican VP?