Carol Marin brings up a perennial favorite in Democratic circles: that Obama should ask Hillary Clinton to be his running-mate, and offer Joe Biden the Secretary of State position.
The main problem with this being, Clinton has repeatedly said she doesn’t want the job, and not in particularly coy terms either. This begins to remind me of the Bush years wherein so many people wishfully speculated speculated that Condoleezza Rice would either replace Dick Cheney in 2004 or would run herself in 2008, no matter how many times she insisted she wasn’t interested.
Mind you, there’s little doubt that this move would energize much of Obama’s base and might even bring a few wavering centrist voters into his camp. And the Clinton/Rice comparison is imperfect, given that Clinton has run for President at least once before. Still, I can’t help but think that, just like those who hoped for a Bush/Rice or a Rice/Someone Republican ticket, those hoping for Obama/Clinton are mostly wasting their time on something that isn’t gonna happen. Maybe I’ll be wrong, but I don’t think so.
*Update*: In the meantime, Philip Klein suggests a potentially exciting choice for Romney: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.
(This item cross-posted to Dean’s World.)
Dean Esmay is the author of Methuselah’s Daughter. He has contributed to Dean’s World, Huffington Post, A Voice for Men, Pajamas Media. Neither left nor right wing, neither libertarian nor socialist.