It looks like the cheapest suck-up in American political history may have just occurred.  Sarah Palin is McCain’s VP choice.  In case you don’t know who she is - and no one does - she is the FORTY-FOUR YEAR OLD, 1st term Governor of Alaska.
Wow!  An astoundingly cynical choice.  Experience and readiness to be commander …

As I informed loyal Flaming Politics readers four weeks ago, July 22nd, Obama has chosen Joe Biden to be his running mate.  A great, great choice, now let the new-hole-ripping of McCain begin!
Oh, and don’t ever, EVER, doubt my prognostic abilities!!!!  If anyone wants to know the winners of the next 3 World Series, just …

The current honeymoon and bump in the national polls being enjoyed by John McCain is about to come to a crashing halt as soon as he picks his Veep.  McCain has been getting away with two things until now:  One, driving the media and the campaign to be about Obama, and through that, raising doubts …

Oh dear am I all agog over the recently unveiled Democratic Convention themes! More specifically the theme for the vice presidential acceptance speech: Securing America’s Future. It leaves me wondering which men on Obama’s VP short list could convincingly speak with enough authority on foreign policy and has the experience absent in the Obama record, certainly not Kaine. Joe …

The skinny is in from the other side. The dead, or at least the ones my sister talks to, have weighed in with their picks for both the Democratic and Republican VP candidates. I report it here as promised.

Japhy, I love the idea of an Obama-Bloomberg ticket. (Back when Clinton seemed inevitable, I was rooting for a Bloomberg-Obama ticket. Funny that.) Thing is, I’m not sure he’d take it. Whenever Bloomberg floated the idea of running as an independent, he seemed more interested in the thrill of the race …

I asked the panel this week to weigh in on their veepstakes picks. You can read them all here.
And here’s my picks, short and easy:
I’m not exactly going out a limb in saying that John McCain will choose Mitt Romeny. Mitt gives McCain exactly what he needs– a young, but not too young face who …

Veepstakes:
I’m terrible at predictions, much better at picking apart politics as it happens, so if were a gambling man, I wouldn’t even put money on my own predictions.
Except this one: Obama won’t pick Clinton. The core of his message is “change” and crossing party lines, so selecting a divisive Washington insider makes no …

Official VP predictions:
Obama will pick a white man. I know that a lot of Clinton’s supporters are hoping to see Clinton on the ticket, but I’m not sure what practical advantage that would serve. Obama won’t need her to win New York or other New England states and he seems poised win PA with …

All the punditry and all the speculation on the part of those in the know, and those who think they know, have yet to define any one person as a clear front runner for the Vice Presidential candidacy for either party. At this point, it still seems to be anyone’s guess.
Instead of basing my prediction …

Histrionic outcry? A problem with unity? Daily Kos crazed Clinton-hating liberals?
Jesus. I’ll plead none-of-the-above, thank you very much.
Okay, I’ll grant you this much: I do hate Hillary Clinton. That said, I oppose Clinton as veep for the same reason I opposed her as a primary candidate: she’s unelectable, her …

Today Bob Novak hinted that John McCain may be close to picking a running mate, and may make an announcement as soon as the end of this week (anything to get the press to stop covering the fact that Barack Obama may actually be quite competent on issues of foreign affairs). Coupled with …