2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAs much as I dislike any of the republicrat field
I think TPaw would have been a better choice for VP than Lyin' Ryan
Too bad Rommy didn't figure that
efhmc
(14,743 posts)Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Rob Portman would have been better. Anyone besides Lyin Ryan. Except Sarah Palin.
efhmc
(14,743 posts)skeewee08
(1,983 posts)were going to play the shots game during the debate how many lies is he going to tell...
Alcohol poisoning isn't a pleasant way to go.
TroyD
(4,551 posts)Wouldn't have helped Romney very much, and as Nate Silver pointed out during the V.P. speculations last month, he's not even well-liked in his own state of MN. He has negative approval ratings there and Nate says Obama would have actually gone UP in MN if Pawlenty was chosen!
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Because if your metric is 'Mitt would be doing better' than there is no choice that could have helped him. If the metric is 'less damning to the Goopers as a whole' then perhaps you are correct. They'd still have Mitt, no VP choice changes him into another, less mendacious and obnoxious person.