This guy thinks Obama should pick him.
So John McCain is potentially doing a VP rollout in Ohio, according to ABC News. In light of this, I have a question: Can someone - anyone - please explain to me why no one in Obama's campaign, in the media, in the progressive infrastructure sphere, in the labor movement or even on lefty blogs, is pushing Sherrod Brown for VP in any real way? Seems to me, if you want to win the presidency as a Democrat, its a pretty sound strategy to simply put Brown on the ticket and tell him to spend the entire campaign simply doing events up and down Ohio's I-71 corridor.
I mean, is this really all that difficult? Please, someone - anyone - tell me how a gaffe-prone, Iraq War-supporting, bankruptcy-bill-voting senator from Delaware, or a warmongering DLC corpse from Indiana is a better pick than an economic populist with 3 decades of government experience (including 16 years in Congress, many on the House International Relations Committee) who has a proven ability to crush Republicans in Ohio, the most politically important state in the nation?
here in America. He is a rookie Senator . What has he done so far ?
HOW?
- Just the KAT, thinking out loud again.
Whether you like Brown or not, he's been in Congress for 16 years. To say he's just a rookie Senator is misleading. He was in the House from 1992-2006. You can check out his his record on wikipedia.
(I would like to add that this would be news more pertinent for those considering to vote for Obama or not. For me personally, picking someone like Brown would give Obama a better chance of getting my vote, since it would slow his continually rightward movement. However if Obama picks the god-awful Evan Bayh, then it's Bayh-Bayh for Obama.)