Best Realistic VP Candidate for Barack Obama?

[angus]

I'd go with a ticket-balancer if I were him.  An old-school southern former KKK democrat.  Robert Byrd maybe.  Or David Duke, I suppose.  Help him win in the bootheel of Missouri and the panhandle of Florida.  Or maybe one of those firebrand populist Catholics from Boston.  Or a Southern California Reagan Democrat.  Someone like that.  Or maybe he could be magnanimous and pick one of his opponents in the primaries.  Sometimes folks do that.  I wouldn't.  None of those current primary opponents really help him in that regard.  Also, most of them are assholes.  Except for Kucinich and Richardson and Dodd, they're all assholes.  And Kucinich is a weirdo and Richardson is a dolt.  So that leaves only Dodd.  Actually, I kinda like Dodd but I still say ditch the primary opponents and go with a logistical choice. 

Or just go with a screw-you choice like Bush did in 2000 when he picked Cheney.  That was bold.  Turned out to be disastrous, of course.  But you have to admire the abject brazenness of the choice.

[angus]

Sam Nunn

He's old but he would be perfect.

That's another good one.  And what about that crotchety old fart that told the Hardball guy that he wished it was still appropriate for gentlemen to have duels?  He was saying "Get out of my face!"  What was his name?  Miller?  That's the sort of Democrat Obama wants for his VP.  He's not quite as old as Byrd, but he's as mean as Byrd.  He's probably about the same age as Nunn but is in better health.  Anyway, isn't Nunn already Bloomberg's steady girlfriend.  I don't think he'll jilt Bloomberg for Obama.  Bloomberg's richer and better-looking.  But I think he said he doesn't want to be anyone's VP anyway.  I'm thinking that Nunn wants a Nunn/Bloomberg ticket, and not a Bloomberg/Nunn ticket.