It is being widely reported that a Repulsican official familiar with the thinking of the Romney campaign says that the Governor is seeking an incredibly boring white guy to be his Vice-Presidential running mate. There are a lot of names being bandied about, including that of my own home state's well regarded and respected Sen. Richard Burr. Vanity Fair published a 'short' list of potentials that is anything but short. At the top of that list, and I mean at the very top is the man whom I said weeks ago should be Romney's VP. That man is Arizona's good senator, Jon Kyl.
JON KYL 4 VICE-PRESIDENT
I picked this man not because he's a boring white guy, which, by and large, he is. I didn't pick him for geographical balance, which he does provide, by being from a state that is pretty much at the country's opposite diagonal corner from Romney's Massachusetts. I did pick him, in part, for political/philosophical balance, as National Journal rates him as the Senate's fourth most conservative Repulsican and because Romney is still having problems convincing the base that he himself is conservative on his own merits. Gov. Romney can surely sense the good sense in picking a running mate with these ticket balancing qualities, much like Jack Kennedy did in 1960. However, Gov. Romney would not have to worry about this man's personal political ambitions assassinating him. Sen. Kyl is retiring this cycle and not seeking a fourth term in the Senate, which he would surely win if he were running for reelection. He has been quoted as saying that he has no higher political aspirations, like the Presidency, a Cabinet post or high ambassadorship. But he couched that by adding that he would be open to serving as Vice-President with the right President and under the right circumstances. I can't imagine a righter President or a more right set of circumstances to whom and to which to offer his experience and expertise.
I picked Jon Kyl because he is imminently most qualified for the job of Vice-President among all of the incredibly boring white guys being discussed by the observing pundits, as well as perhaps by the participating politician and his hack consultants and advisers. He is also most and best qualified among non-boring, non-male and non-Caucasoid candidates who may be considered or are being considered.
The Constitution says the Vice-President has two things to do. The foremost, found in Article II Section 6, is to be ready to have the powers and duties of the Presidency devolve upon him if the President is unable to discharge those powers and duties, because of removal or resignation from office, death, or inability. It is highly unlikely that this part of the job would ever come up. But because it might, it is a sensible extrapolation that the Vice-President should be a close confidant and consultant to the President. Though only one Vice-President in recent history and perhaps in all of the country's history has had such standing, Kyl would be a good man to have help formulate and implement the most important policies of this next administration. Because of his specific committee experience in the Senate in areas such as security, finance and the judiciary, Kyl would be an excellent adviser to the President on these contemporarily vital issues.
The one on-going duty that the Constitution assigns to the Vice-President is to preside over the Senate and to cast tie breaking votes in that chamber. This November's elections are going to give us a Senate which will be almost, or perhaps exactly evenly divided in terms of parties and/or political philosophy. Kyl has held leadership positions for much of his eighteen years in the Senate, including his present posting as Minority Whip, making him the second ranking Repulsican, responsible for his party's members' attendance and persuading them to vote in such and such a way. Time magazine listed him as one of its 100 most influential people in the world for his persuasive role in the Senate. That persuasive nature, coupled with his specific experience in important policy areas and his potential conservative vote would be vital to the country's survival when the Senate considers such matters as repealing Obamacare (or should we call it Soetorocare?), Dodd-Frank, and any myriad other rules, regs, and laws handed down from on high by this current socialist regime and by similar previous others. He would be instrumental in getting the Senate to 'do right' in such matters as tax reform, immigration, border protection and homeland security, as well as getting proper Justices approved for the Supreme Court.
Of course, selecting Jon Kyl to be the Vice-Presidential running mate will have little or no real impact upon the campaign in and of itself. To truly engage the base, to interest the independents, and to take it to Soetoro and his fellow socialists, Romney needs to name Newt Gingrich as his Secretary of State and Herman Cain as his Secretary of Commerce at the same time he proclaims Kyl to be VP. He can wait until later to name the rest of his Cabinet, as I proposed them in an earlier article. But he needs, needs, needs to get those two out on the campaign trail in official capacities to verbally take down the despots dirtying up and destroying our White House.
NEWT HERMAN CAIN
Sec. of State Sec. of Commerce
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