frankie's Journal: The perfect running mate

If somehow Hillary manages to pull a victory, I can't think of a more appropriate symbol of American ingenuity and resolve than: both Hillary and McCain picking Joe Lieberman as their respective running mates. It would be fabulous!

Alternately, we could all just skip past the next 8 months of ugliness straight to President-Elect Obama. Please. Either way would be fine.

p.s. Any thoughts on Obama's running mate? John Edwards? Ron Paul? Arianna Huffington?

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[frankie]

Good call. Aside from some trivial misstatements and his stance on eminent domain, Richardson would be a good running mate. Especially against McCain; Richardson would even up the fight in the southwest and be safe against likely attacks on his birth status.

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[ScottForbes]

The problem with Bill Richardson, like Wes Clark before him, is that he looks great on paper but does poorly on the campaign trail. I can't see him adding a lot to the ticket, other that he's from the Clinton wing of the party and might help patch up hard feelings there.

The name I've heard often as a potential Obama VP pick is Jim Webb, a former Reagan Administration Secretary of the Navy who is now the junior Senator from Virginia. That sentence alone is a compelling argument for putting Webb on the ti