Ridge is like a pro-choice McCain lite. Powell is better than Ridge but McCain is lacking economic experience which is why I prefer Romney. Though personally I could vote for them over Obama, but McCain really needs to back away from Amnesty and Carbon regulations if he wants to be taken seriously. There would be no contest on which team would have better foreign policy experience.

Powell has a few issues other than Abortion though.

The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource

Dare I say...brilliant?

One thing that I have said fervently since March 2003, is that we should have sent in about 150,000 troops to begin with.  We needed to just completely overwhelm and take over Iraq.  Instead we went with an economic force that was capable of "doing the job", but was not capable, in numbers, to act as security for all of Iraq.  We simply did not have enough feet on the ground to guard all of the weapons caches, the banks, the cities...Powell forsaw all of those problems and was insistent on sending more troops from the original planning and execution of the war. 

A McCain-Powell ticket might be strong.  As in, Barry H.O. and Joe B. better start shaking in their boots.  This isn't going to be like a rock concert in Berlin.  This is America.  Good b.s. and a smile only go so far...a b.j. for former prez clinton...and it appears almost the White House for baracka H. obama, jr.  But I think that Americans will see through this, and I believe that, especially in light of the amazing progress in Iraq, they'll realize that the only choice they have is really the progressive choice, in John McCain. 

Barack Obama talks a lot about being beyond politics, but in almost every way, he's a politician as usual.  At least John McCain has a plan to go forward; Barack's plan is first about surrendering in Iraq, and then submitting to Iran, then to China, then to Russia, and so forth. 

Whatever, it's past my bedtime.  I think that McCain-Powell might be kick as*.  I love my country...I want leaders that do too.  Is that so much to ask?

DENVER (AP) - Joe Biden got the call from Barack Obama while undergoing a root canal.

 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92O9FFG2&show_article=1&catnum=0

Too funny. You really can’t make this stuff up.

If you can't remember . . . the claymore is probably pointed at you.   Murphy's Laws of Combat

He was a terrible Secretary State, he is a back stabber, and if his own image might be at stake, you can't trust his loyalty. He reached his Peter Principle point as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He brings nothing to the ticket, except to balance the race thing and that is a terrible reason.

Besides, even though I believe abortion to be a state issue and the Feds should stay out of it, Obama's extreme position and promise to overturn all pro-life provisions as soon as elected, means McCain would be crazy to give away this issue by choosing an abortion supporter as running mate.

He needs Romney who can help him sweep the West as well as Michigan, Florida and a some of the New England states. And he needs his economic gravitas. 

If demographics were everything, Powell would be great. But then, if demographics were everything, Condi Rice would be better. (Of course, either one would demolish Biden.) I like Powell, but I have to admit, he was very wrong on the surge. He thought it was a loser. Rice's problem is that she is completely associated with Bush. At least Powell could argue that he wasn't a proponent of the Bush foreign policy - which he occasionally proved as Secretary of State. Then again, as Fareed Zakaria wrote, there are a lot of things that the Bush crowd got right. Bush's foreign policy, after 2006, has been pretty solid. I think Robert Gates has been a superb defense secretary. Still, just to cut through the media ack-ack, it may be too much an uphill climb for Rice, and McCain doesn't need to make it any harder for himself.

Right now, we have three nominations in the bag. All three are senators. All three are wildly in love with themselves. I'm begging McCain not to throw in another. Please don't pick another senator. We want a campaign, or at least a fun debate. With four senators, we'd get two months of Meet the Press and C-Span. Spare us, please.

Powell didn't want to run for President because of the rigors of the campaign and his wife's fears. What makes anyone think that has changed now?

As for what he brings to the ticket, I say it's the entertainment of watching Al Sharpton's head explode (I originally said Jackson, but he's SO over!) as he tries to explain why Barack Obama is a genuine Black, but Powell is an Uncle Tom.

Didn't I see a Fox News talking head (I forget which) saying Powell was about to endorse Obama a couple of weeks ago? It never happened, of course, but combined with McCain's new ad quoting Biden about himself, I'm struck by how various prominent members of the 2 "major" parties are now, in effect, admitting that Libertarians have been right all along regarding all our "not a dime's worth of difference" rants over the decades...
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

Terrible idea.

 I don't think McCain can win with a pro-abortion running mate. Furthermore, Powell, Ridge, Lieberman, Guiliani, etc. are liberal on a number of other things anyway. Powell is bad on gun control, homosexuality, affirmative action, and opposed the nomination of John Bolton. I also have seen him as a back stabber and disappointment time and time again, like that poster above pointed out.

All he really adds to the ticket is his military credentials. But McCain needs no boosting there. And also as that poster said, to pick Powell because he's black is terrible. Let's let the Dems be the ones to keep playing race. Let's follow Martin Luther King's principle of judging a man by the content of his character, not the color of his skin. It's racist to vote against or FOR someone because of their skin color.

McCain has been on shaky ground with us before. But he's largely been achieving our support with a mostly conservative campaign (as well as benefiting from an opponent who is so hideous in his views, inexperience, incomptence, and frightening asscociations [eg. Wright, Rezko, Ayers]). As Mark Levin keeps saying, McCain has my vote as long as he doesn't do something stupid like spit in the face of conservatives by picking a liberal or moderate running mate.

Colin Powell? NO WAY!!!! (But thankfully I see a zero percent chance of that happening).

Mitt Romney

   Well, now that obama has chosen his own version of John McCain, if McCain chooses a person of color this race will just get weirder and weirder.

It has to be Romney to attract conservatives. Like I told a friend, mormonism is only an issue for the top job.

If McCain wants the estrogen based voters, who are mad over Hillary's loss, a women would be good for his ticket. However, I think it would remind people of Mondale's pandering VP pick and could backfire on wandering John.

If this doesn't make you furious, I don't know what will. 

She is "enforcing" rules in the House, removing Rep Walter Jones' (R - N.C.) tribute to fallen soldiers outside of his House office.

The woman's arrogance knows no bounds.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

I like Powell and Michael Steele and Condi Rice. I know Powell and Rice are pro choice, not sure about Steele.  I would like to see some color for a vp pick. These are all strong smart and great black people.

mom

Perfect choice. Powell can then bring along his close associate and second-in-command at the State Department Richard Armitage. Remember Richard Armitage? He was the person who first disclosed Valerie Plame's identity to Robert Novak.

NewsBusters noted Karl Rove’s complaint on The O'Reilly Factor: "Imagine what would have happened if Richard Armitage had come forward and said, 'You know what? I did it. I talked to Robert Novak and gave her the background and gave her the name.' And this would have all gone away. You'll notice when it came out that Richard Armitage was the source of the leak, the media rapidly lost attention."

The Wall Street Journal wrote at the time: “Meanwhile, according to the Corn-Isikoff book, Mr. Armitage never did tell the White House or his boss, the President, that he was the leaker. Instead, in October 2003 he told Mr. Powell, who told the State Department general counsel, who in turn told the Justice Department but gave the White House Counsel only the sketchiest overview of what he'd learned and didn't mention Mr. Armitage's name. So while Mr. Fitzgerald presumably knew when he began his probe two months later that Mr. Armitage was Mr. Novak's source, the President himself was apparently kept in the dark, even as he was pledging publicly to find out who the leaker was.

At a minimum, there appears to be a serious question of disloyalty here. By keeping silent, Messrs. Powell and Armitage let the President take political heat for the case, while also letting Mr. Rove, Mr. Libby and other White House officials twist in the wind for more than two years. We also know that it was the folks in Mr. Powell's shop--including his former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson and intelligence officer Carl Ford Jr.--who did so much to trash John Bolton's nomination to be Ambassador to the U.N. in 2005. The State Department clique that Mr. Bush tolerated for so long did tremendous damage to his Administration."

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"If the Republicans can subtly portray Obama as an affirmative-action nominee, McCain could well be our next President.” ~ Jeremy Mayer, NY Daily News

The problem I see with Powell is that he held a Cabinet post in the Bush administration. Although he may have disagreed with Bush on certain issues, I don't think the average American is necessarily aware of this aspect of Powell's tenure. Putting him on the ticket gives the Obama campaign the opportunity to use Powell against McCain. McCain needs to distance himself as much as possible from the assumption that his administration would amount to nothing more than a third Bush term. Besides, I don't see that McCain necessarily needs someone with Powell's military and foreign policy chops. I feel that McCain is pretty strong in these areas. Romney makes more sense for the VP nod.

Powel, a lingering disaster.

1) His handling of Desert Storm gave us Iraq II

2) His addition of WMD in the Presidental address (16 words)gave us "Bush Lied, People Died" 

3) His cowardness of the Plume affair still reeks.

4) He has demonstarted NO competence in anything

The obvious choice for VP is Gov Romeny because he did so well in his campaign. 

If he picks Powell...I won't vote for him, but I most likely won't anyway unless he picks a real conservative...I'm in the minority and don't care.

Powell, Armitage, and yes McCain, along with some others like Warner in the Senate all worked together as far as I am concerned to hurt President Bush and others during this war in various ways, I am not going to go through all of it again as I have posted as such over the years.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Have you seen the front page of www.gop.com ? Some clever bastard over there put up a running clock counting the time till Chief Little Big Gaffe decides to throw in some ad libs or, more likely, opens up in the comfort of the liberal media and tells us how he really feels.

So how long can he go entirely scripted? I give him 3 weeks, max.

Cheers to the Little League team from Waipahu, Hawaii, who staged the mother of all comebacks Saturday to come back from a 5-1 deficit in their final at bat to score 6 runs and win the US National Championship, 7-5, over Lake Charles LA.

They are now playing Mexico in the World Championship, and are up 1-0 in the top of the 1st inning.

A pro-abortionist is a pro-abortionist, be it Ridge or Powell.

Powel is a let's not win in Iraq as well. He is a liberal by any definition of the  word and would not get 25 black votes running against the Messiah.

What if the maverick were to pick....

Wait for it....

H!llary?

NO NO NO! All this yak about Mac being a RINO, what the heck do you all think Powell is?? RINO, RINO, RINO. Backstabber too and unstable about the war and surge. He would add nothing, all the black are voting for Oduma anyway.