I am becoming more interested in the likely VP candidates of the two major parties due to some of the more current political winds blowing.
1. Hillary still likely Dem candidate, but the rogue email server and classified docs issues keep getting hotter.
2. Cruz getting closer to Trump, delegate wise (more likely means Trump will lose hte nomination rather than Cruz will win the nomination) but let us assume Cruz steps in where Trump falls down.
So, a more likely Hill and Cruz matchup. Thing is, both have problems that could knock them out of the race after winning the nomination.
Hillary has the aforementioned email/classified document problem. I expect BHO to keep a lid on this as much as possible, as he is culpable. Might not be able to, though. BHO's intelligence and cunning is over rated and folk at FBI and elsewhere in the intel/LEO community might be able to generate enough stink to force his hand.
Cruz has the problem that there is a not insubstantial case that can be made he is not a natural born citizen Sure, it is an arcane requirement for POTUS in a mouldy old document, but I suspect that most any lefty judge would become born again constitutionalist were such a case to be brought against Cruz to support the Dem POTUS candidate. It is a roll of the dice for Ted.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2016-01-13.htmlNeither Hillary nor Cruz are the sorts of policritters that would select a strong VP candidate. They are both too insubstantial and devoid of real accomplishment to nominate another politician of a Cheney/Gore caliber as their running mate. I think the likely VP candidates would be more of a Quayle/Edwards sort. Even a Biden-analog would be too much a contrast.
So, after the anti-establishment primary season gets beaten into submission by the partys' establishments, there are two establishment POTUS candidates paired with non-entities. And then the top of both tickets are knocked off, transforming the presidential race into a form of continental midget wrestling match. Or maybe a bi-coastal slappy-fight.
I'll make some predictions.
About the most insubstantial candidate Hillary could choose would be
Julian Castro. Think a Mexican Marco Rubio, but only ever winning elective office to be the unsalaried, powerless San Antonio mayor. He took a job as HUD secretary for BHO, not that he has any qualification for that position. No matter. He's young, hispanic, and reliably lefty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_CastroCruz has a larger pool of qualified veep material, but he won't want to be overshadowed by a man of accomplishment. He will be pressured to select:
1. An establishmentarian.
2. Someone with the gravitas Cruz lacks.
3. A minority, as Mexican are not fond of Cubans (though maybe they will warm to a Cubanadian?)
I am thinking
Mia Love. Love is more substantive than Castro, but still not enough so to overshadow Cruz. She made Tea Party & anti-establishment noise, but has a record of docile conformity. Plus: woman and black. Extra plus: Much easier on the ears than Hillary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Love