ENPR: Obama has two potential veep picks in PA
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I wrote this for the PA Water Cooler blog, but it should be of interest at least to the Pennsylvanians amongst us:
Tim Carney writes the Evans & Novak Political Report (ENPR) for Bob Novak, and today he looks at possible veep choices, two of whom are from Pennsylvania. There are no Republicans – which is not surprising, I guess, as it is not altogether clear that our Keystone Commonwealth still has a GOP – but two Pennsylvanians made the list.
At #4 on the ENPR Obama's veep list is our own Governor Ed:
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell: He is very able and very experienced, a ticket-balancer: age 64, Jewish, Clinton supporter and pins down a state that Democrats must win to elect a president. The problem is that he just doesn't look or sound much like a president.
Right. He sounds like a mob boss, but he has shown himself to be surprisingly suave when doing the Sunday morning talk shows. He'd be a good pick for Barry, but he would leave Pennsylvania with a – brace yourselves – Governor Catherine Baker Knoll.
At #6 on the ENPR Obama's veep list is our own Senator Junior Casey:
Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (Pa.): He's only 48 years old and elected to the Senate just in 2006, so it doesn't make much sense to have two young first-term Senators on the ticket. Also, he would be an insult to his blood enemy, Rendell. But otherwise he's a ticket-balancer: Catholic, pro-life, pro-gun. He endeared himself to Obama campaigning against the Rendell organization in Pennsylvania.
No, no, no. Barack Obama is not considering Junior Casey. The man has spent time with Casey and must know him to have a severely limited intellect. Casey wasn't fit to be our auditor general, let alone a potential, one-heartbeat-away, POTUS. He is neither pro-life nor pro-gun in any meaningful way; in fact, he's not really anything.
BTW, although he did not make the ENPR list, I've heard our former Governor Tom Ridge mentioned as a possible McCain veep, and I assume that Ridge did not make their list because he is a pro-abort. Can any Pennsylvania conservative consider a McCain/Ridge ticket as anything other than a very bad dream?
(cross-posted at Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog))