What would a Dick Durbin bring to the table as VEEP? n/t

[LakeSamish706]

[AngryAmish]

1. He would guarantee Illinois for Obama

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. and little else. I want Dick to stay in the senate.

[AngryAmish]

11. dude, you need some coffee

[Robbien]

9. rofl

:rofl:

[MrCoffee]

16. LMAO

[dtotire]

2. The President and VP cannot be from the same State. n/t

[LakeSamish706]

4. Thats a good point... He is very likeable thats for sure. n/t

[JaneQPublic]

14. Yep. Remember the dust-up in 2000 when GWB picked Cheney as his VP?

Cheney had been living in TX for years running Haliburton. So they quickly had him register to vote in WY so he would be constitutionally eligible to be Chimpy's veep.

[rateyes]

3. Nothing. He's from Illinois...

The Constitution won't allow a Veep from the same state as the President.

[LakeSamish706]

5. I never knew that and I guess thats why I have not seen his name come up. n/t

[rateyes]

7. He'd be a good one, though. nt

[Mass]

6. Aside being non constitutional?\nt

[RufusTFirefly]

10. Bad idea. And unconstitutional

1) It violates the conventional wisdom that the running mate should come from another region in order to pull in voters from a region where the top of the ticket isn't as strong.
2) As others have already mentioned, it's un-Constitutional for running mates to reside in the same state. That's why Dr. Evil moved back to Wyoming.

[NNN0LHI]

12. I used to really like Durbin but after he fell for the fake fat Osama video I lost all faith in him

Christ he was even out talking it up before the big release date the WH had planned. Better than any Republican but I don't consider him VP material any more. Too stupid. Or he thinks we are?

Don

[librechik]

13. Durbin should get Reid's job.

soon

[theboss]

15. He can't. He's from IL.

Sorry.