December 26th, 2007
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(6 votes, average: 4.83 out of 5) Loading ...Who Completes Your Moderate Dream Team? Bloomberg, McCain, Lieberman, Schwarzenegger, and Nunn?
Bernie Quigley, a writer from New Hampshire has been following the formation of the ultimate centrist ticket for quite sometime. Here is how the Moderate Dream Team is shaping up:
- John McCain (R-AZ) seems too moderate to really emerge from the primary process as the nominee, but he’d make an excellent VP for Bloomberg.
- Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has endorsed McCain, and Bloomberg as Quigley states: “put the cash behind Joe Lieberman in his contentious reelection bid against Ned Lamont.”
- Chuck Hagel (R-NE) has been holding regular phone calls with Mike Bloomberg. He would bring midwestern balance and modesty to the ticket.
- In regards to Arnold Schwarzenegger, he helps bring the state of California, which is winner take all in the electoral college, key to a Bloomberg victory. Quigley postulates a possible Secretary of State spot, but here’s what Mike Bloomberg has to say (after acknowledging that it is legally impossible):
“He’d make a great vice president…This guy’s a substantive guy who really is serious about governing, and I think California - he’s going to be term-limited out - California’s going to miss him, because he really has made a difference in his term in his office.”
- At this point, all we need is, Sam Nunn to provide authentic southern street cred
December 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I would hope that Colin Powell comes out of retirement, and certainly wouldn’t mind if Wesley Clark came with him.
December 26th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Wesley Clark! Yes! Unfortunately, he has endorsed Clinton.
I think the most important attribute of a Bloomberg VP is foreign policy experience, and several of those mentioned have it. The second most important is regional diversity, so I think Hagel is all-around a good choice.
That’s the first time I’ve heard Powell mentioned. If he was on the ticket, that would bring a lot of moderate Republicans along.
December 26th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I’m thinking Hillary wont make it out of the primary (call it the Huckabee factor, He scares Liberal-Democrats as much as she scares Conservative-Republicans), and if she loses, Clark is going to have to go somewhere. Also, I don’t think Powell would be the VP, as with all of these other people, he would be incorported into the Bloomberg Adminstration.
December 26th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I would like to see a variation of what George Kennan - probably America’s greatest diplomat since Franklin - recommended late in his life; a Council of Elders. A council of “post-partisan” group advisors that is a role the Senate was originally supposed to play and in Canada still does to a small degree. Instead of just Mike Bloomberg putting up 2 billion I’d like to see a Board of Trustees including benefactors (Bloomberg, Ted Turner, Warren Buffett) bring this together. It would be greater than the personal elan and spirit of Mike Bloomberg alone. My Council would include a bi-partisan group; Ted Turner, Warren Buffett, Kathleen Sebelius, Gov. of Kansas, Carol Shea-Porter, my Rep. here in NH, Sam Nunn, John Lynch, my Governor in NH, Gary Hart, Colin Powell, John McCain, Mike Bloomberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Schultz, Bill Weld, former Gov. of Mass., Angus King, former Gov. of Maine and Madeline Kunin, former Gov. of Vermont. I would exclude everyone now or ever before in both the Bush and the Clinton families and in their extended administrative cultures. Time to move on.
December 26th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
None of those would be on any dream team of mine.
I could see John Edwards, but don’t think Wesley Clark has a wide enough base or appeal.