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Originally Posted by Ohio

Doubtful Trump would select a governor for VP, else Christie would be first choice. Common wisdom seems to point to senators.

Personally I think senators make for lousy presidents. Is anybody left to vote for who is not a senator?

Is Kasich out now? My preference was from the governors (with Christie at the low end of that, although not by much).

I like Rubio, but he is just too young. Maybe not in years necessarily, but he comes across a little light on wisdom under fire.

Cruz is just the wrong kind of politics (IMO).

As much as I don't like Trump, at least he has moved (mostly) toward confronting the Dems rather than his own party.

My hope is that we go to the convention undecided and when they start haggling, someone unexpected but viable pops out.

What we need is someone right of center, but left of the far right. And we need someone who is not afraid to admit that it will take more than an un-budging president to get it done. Compromise is not a dirty word. It is lack of compromise that has gotten us where we are — in gridlock.

[Ohio]

I like Rubio, but he is just too young. Maybe not in years necessarily, but he comes across a little light on wisdom under fire.

Cruz is just the wrong kind of politics (IMO).

As much as I don't like Trump, at least he has moved (mostly) toward confronting the Dems rather than his own party.

I have felt all along that Trump will bolt the GOP and run independent, kind of like Perot did, guaranteeing another Clintonistas' victory. My wife is convinced that Trump is working for Hilary.

In the end, all the politicking will be a waste of time if the economy tanks again like it did in 2008. The democrats will be voted out, and any re-Publican can win.