Romney Running Mate Coming Soon
From an e-mail that just came through from the Romney campaign:
We're getting ready to share some exciting news. Sometime between now and the Republican convention, Mitt will be announcing his choice for VP.
Know what's even more exciting? Every week until the VP announcement is made, one lucky supporter will win the chance to meet Mitt and his choice for VP.
UPDATE: I noticed shortly after posting (as was pointed out in the comments) that the wording of the e-mail is ambiguous enough to suggest that contestants will actually win the opportunity to meet the running mate in coming weeks, not actually meet them during that timeframe (which actually makes more sense in terms of preventing leaks).
And Drudge is now reporting Condi Rice as the surprise candidate "near the top of the list." As of yet, however, there is no sourcing, even on background.
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May '10
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It doesn't necessarily mean he's chosen his running mate already. Another interpretation is that winners will be selected each week, but the winners will have to wait to meet them until Mitt selects his running mate at some future date.
Edited on July 13, 2012 at 1:53amDec '11
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My dark horse pick for Romney's VP choice: Anderson Cooper
Long shot I know, but if I'm right...
Oct '11
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"Sometime between now and the Republican convention" includes the day before the convention...
May '11
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Yeah, well one lucky Obama supporter gets to have dinner with Sarah Jessica Parker and some other woman. Romney has his work cut out.
Jun '12
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Not to steal your thunder, Troy, but... well... ahem...
Mar '11
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per Drudge: Condi Rice? You have got to be kidding.... no one Bush adjacent in 2012. Portman, Pawlenty, Jindal ...anyone else. She has never run for office and will unquestionably "grow" during a campaign..
Apr '11
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What if you meet Romney and there are more people in the room than just you and him? Technically you would be meeting Romney and his VP but you just wouldn't know who it is. You would however get to ask each of them 1 yes or no question and then have to guess the VP. I think that would be fun wouldn't it.
Sep '10
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Romney will announce Barack Obama as his running mate to unify the country. He will be put in charge of the new Mars colonization program and lead it's community organizing initiative.(hi mom, I'm commenting from my iPhone)
Jul '10
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I think Condi would be a disaster. Personally her pro-choice stance turns me off (and makes me wonder how pro-life Romney is if he chooses her) and I find her speeches to be uninspiring. We don't need two such speakers!
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One would assume that this had to come from a high-level source to get bumped to the top of Drudge. But it would be surprising for Team Romney to give the store away to an outside source. There's a good chance that they're floating this in an attempt to bump up Romney's numbers with women and, coming right after the NAACP speech, with black voters.
May '10
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The vice president has next to zero influence on abortion policy. And at the chance that she would unexpectedly become president, she's not a pro-abortion ideologue (as far as I can tell) who would use that as a litmus test for Supreme Court nominees. So I don't think that's something we should put much emphasis on.
Mar '11
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Romney has to be the Economy Guy, a Mr Fixit. that's the theme and Codi would take away from it. The others re-inforce it. We don't even know where Condi stands on Obamacare, entitlements, etc. Romney loses if he picks her...
Aug '10
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Condi covers the foreign policyRomney covers the economy .What is not to like ?Perhaps a costcutting capitalist is a better idea and teamed with an experienced realpolitik player of the highest intelligence wouldn't hurt.Great optics too.Imagine Biden and Rice in a debate about foreign policy , or a spelling bee !
Oct '10
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Mark Wilson
And at the chance that she would unexpectedly become president, she's not a pro-abortion ideologue (as far as I can tell) who would use that as a litmus test for Supreme Court nominees. So I don't think that's something we should put much emphasis on. · 1 minute ago
She doesn't have to be a pro-abortion ideologue. She only has to be a pro-life squish.
Apr '11
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I was under the impression that she is pro-life. Am I mistaken?
Aug '10
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Hoover Institute to the rescue ?Peter .......?
May '11
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But the news: When conversation turned to the vice presidential nominee, I said we all know the names of those being considered, spoke of a few, and then said Condoleezza Rice might be a brilliant choice.
Here spontaneous applause burst forth.
Consider: A public figure of obvious and nameable accomplishment whose attainments can't be taken away from her. Washington experience—she wouldn't be learning on the job. Never run for office but no political novice. An academic, but not ethereal or abstract. A woman in a year when Republicans aren't supposed to choose a woman because of what is now called the 2008 experience—so the choice would have a certain boldness. A black woman in a campaign that always threatens to take on a painful racial overlay. A foreign-policy professional acquainted with everyone who's reigned or been rising the past 20 years.
I should add here the look on the faces of the people who were applauding. They looked surprised by their own passion. Actually they looked relieved, like a campaign was going on and big things might happen and maybe it could get kind of . . . exciting.
Peggy Noonan's opinion today.
Sep '10
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Does the VP have to be a US citizen? I'd like to see Nigel Farage just to hear him say Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey.
Dec '10
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Troy, you were in the Bush admin, throw us some opinion of Condi.
Nov '11
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But it sure is written to imply that it's coming sooner. While reserving the ability to do it as late as desired.
Also, "every week until the announcement" would indicate that at least there are "weeks" in the plural still to go.
Actually, I think what they are doing is very effectively is stirring everyone's curiosity.