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Last week, Mitt Romney was making his international tour, which meant he left his surrogates to campaign for him. This has led to some speculation on who is running mate may be. This discussion does seem to be a preferred one to the discussion about how Mitt's trip went.
Of course, the speculation has been that the 'Follow Friday' list of people Mitt (and by Mitt, I mean his aide) thinks you should start following on twitter are in fact his short list for veep contenders.
Fun fact 1: Many of Mitt's twitter followers may indeed not be real people
Fun fact 2: If you really want to know who Mitt is picking, there is an app for that.
Gov. Bobby Jindal had the most successful trip. He hit Cedar Rapids and Des Moines and bought everyone Maid-Rites for lunch. Maid-Rite is a uniquely Iowan thing- a restaurant chain that specializes in loose meat sandwiches (Think sloppy joes, kinda). Sure, it's a staple of mothers across the country, but Iowa is the only place I know where it is a concept behind a wildly popular restaurant.
Vice Presidential candidates get to play the role of pitbull, and Jindal did a pretty good job of that.
“(Obama)’s the most liberal president since Jimmy Carter was in the White House. My second problem with President Obama is that he’s the most incompetent president since Jimmy Carter.I don’t mean any disrespect to Jimmy Carter."
Hey-Oh!
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell joined Jindal outside Iowa City ("The Bob Brigade"), but poor McDonnell hardly got much press in Jindal's shadow. Jindal is Tom Cruise and McDonnell is Paul Giamatti. Okay, he's not even Giamatti, he's Peter Gallagher.
Still, Jindal probably had his work cut out for him, if he has veep aspirations.
Marco Rubio was supposed to be in central Iowa at the same time. Rubio appears to be everyone's first choice, including the Republican Iowa Governor.
Rubio attempted to get to Iowa on not one, but two planes (both with malfunctions) and was forced to address a GOP rally via cell phone from Albuquerque.
Of course, the speculation has been that the 'Follow Friday' list of people Mitt (and by Mitt, I mean his aide) thinks you should start following on twitter are in fact his short list for veep contenders.
Fun fact 1: Many of Mitt's twitter followers may indeed not be real people
Fun fact 2: If you really want to know who Mitt is picking, there is an app for that.
Gov. Bobby Jindal had the most successful trip. He hit Cedar Rapids and Des Moines and bought everyone Maid-Rites for lunch. Maid-Rite is a uniquely Iowan thing- a restaurant chain that specializes in loose meat sandwiches (Think sloppy joes, kinda). Sure, it's a staple of mothers across the country, but Iowa is the only place I know where it is a concept behind a wildly popular restaurant.
Vice Presidential candidates get to play the role of pitbull, and Jindal did a pretty good job of that.
“(Obama)’s the most liberal president since Jimmy Carter was in the White House. My second problem with President Obama is that he’s the most incompetent president since Jimmy Carter.I don’t mean any disrespect to Jimmy Carter."
Hey-Oh!
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell joined Jindal outside Iowa City ("The Bob Brigade"), but poor McDonnell hardly got much press in Jindal's shadow. Jindal is Tom Cruise and McDonnell is Paul Giamatti. Okay, he's not even Giamatti, he's Peter Gallagher.
Still, Jindal probably had his work cut out for him, if he has veep aspirations.
Marco Rubio was supposed to be in central Iowa at the same time. Rubio appears to be everyone's first choice, including the Republican Iowa Governor.
Rubio attempted to get to Iowa on not one, but two planes (both with malfunctions) and was forced to address a GOP rally via cell phone from Albuquerque.
