Meg Whitman for Veep?!

While I also support Mitt Romney for McCain's VP pick, I think Meg Whitman would be another good pick (provided she's prolife). She was the CEO of eBay from March 1998 to March 2008. Why not someone from the business world? It would boslter McCain's business credentials and perhaps gain the support of women. Ebay is also a very accessible company. Negative attacks won't be very effective, as opposed if she was a CEO of a pharmaceutical company.





A more businesswomen who is more touted in the press is Carly Fiorina, the former head of HP. However, her tenure ended up with her being canned by the board. Rightly or wrongly, that firing would be plenty of ammunition for ads. Also, all the Democrats have to do is show the stock price chart:



Of course, other losing picks: Joe Lieberman, Tom Ridge, Charlie Crist.

The Red Herring Spin

So Edwards is caught in a lie, which bodes poorly for Democrats. However, the media allies spin it by telling everyone that "it's worse for McCain" because he got divorced 25 years ago. No one knows what happened with McCain's first marriage except McCain and his wife. However, he didn't repeatedly lie to the people.

The message is "forget about Edwards: look over here, look over here"

So, below is the headline from Yahoo with a link to a story in Slate:

The Two Edwards

The best news of the week: we'll never have to hear the Two Americas speech again.

John Edwards, purveyor of class warfare, admitted to an affair that only the "junk tabloid", the National Enquirer persued. Even as the case developed, all the mainstream media outlets were quite mum on the matter.

Perhaps we can give a "Two Edwards" speech. One Edwards pretends to care about his wife who has cancer. The other Edwards cheats on his wife who has cancer.


Update: He can't stop lying!!

His statement:
"When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it. But being 99% honest is no longer enough."


From the LA TimesThe Associated Press reported today that Edwards told reporters, "The story is false. It's completely untrue, ridiculous." He said the story was "made-up."

"I've been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years," Edwards added, about his wife Elizabeth, who is suffering from incurable cancer, "and as anybody who's been around us knows, she's an extraordinary human being, warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known. So the story's just false."

Umm... I think the fact that Edwards had an affair with the woman the Enquirer said he had an affair with makes it at least 90% true. So he's even lying now that he thinks he was being 99% honest. At least he said one thing true: "I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic."