Could Gov. Mark Warner of Virginia be our next Vice President?

WASHINGTON -- Democrats presented a far gloomier view of the economy in their Saturday radio address
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Democratic Gov. Mark Warner of Virginia blamed Bush's "massive tax cuts" for the rising federal deficits and for forcing states to cut vital services.

"Right now, this nation is on track for the worst job-creation record since the Great Depression. No president since Herbert Hoover 70 years ago has actually lost jobs over the course of his term," Warner said.
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"As a governor, I know firsthand how the administration's policies are failing to deliver on the promises of creating jobs," Warner said.
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"Instead, the real record is that our country lost 3.1 million jobs, and their policies have turned the $236 billion surplus they inherited into a $455 billion deficit," Warner said.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/6447673.htm

What's his background before being governor?

The Official Website of the Governor of Virginia - Mark R. Warner | Mark Warner Biography
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Governor/GovBioHome.html

The more I think about it, the more I am very excited about our chances. We've got some excellent candidates. The best part about having such a wide selection of people running for president is that the VP selection is grand.

company in Northern Virginia, and cashed in when life was still good in high tech businesses, this is his first foray into politics....he's a Democrat,

and it seemed to me that a HUGE number of people here got massively confused with our Senator, John Warner (reTHUGlican - Cheap Labor Conservative), who has been in office for 27 years.....and LOVES the shrub...stands up for shrub all the time to the point of sickening most people...and does little for regular people in the State of Virginia...John Warner reminds me of old strom...Sen.John warner comes from a long line of inherited plantation slave owners, OLD Virginia wealth, someone who should definitely pay reparations....Senator Warner ran UNOPPOSED on the ballot for the 2002 election, which made me sick (so I wrote in a candidate, my only option)...


link to Sen. JOHN warner's web site
http://warner.senate.gov/about/aboutthesenator.htm

so, this goes to show, an old political tactic...get someone on the ballot with the same name...it can split the vote for your candidate between TWO candidates (assuring defeat) or in this case, of the famous WARNER name...guarantees a victory to anyone named WARNER...it amazes me to no end that there is NO party designation on the ballots here in Alexandria, Virginia...so, straight party votes are impossible...splitting the vote is also what nadar did, guaranteeing that easily-deceived not-too-smart voters would give the victory to shrub by splitting the Democratic vote...I fear that this too is where Dean is leading...to a vote split, guaranteeing a shrub win...


on edit: Governor Warner is more of an opportunist, and a repub-lite, like Lieberman...he's hardly a TRUE Democrat...however, in light of Virginia long-time KKK politics, I'm impressed that a Democrat-in-name-only is holding the Governorship...that's quite an accomplishment...I prefer though, REAL Democrats, like the new Mayor of Alexandria, Bill Euile...proud to have worked on this one, all Democratic people as of May 6,2003, on Alexandria City Council, and OUR first Black Mayor in 254 years, a beneficiary of affirmative action, Bill paves the way for others, and still lives in the neighborhood that he grew up in, the Alexandria public housing area...now an enterprise zone...

http://ci.alexandria.va.us/city/city-government/councilbios.html

Based on electoral projections, it's going to be Graham or Gephardt, provided that they don't win the nomination themselves. Warner is only a first-term governor, but he's someone to watch out for as a future Presidential candidate.

Virginia limits the governor to a single term, so this will be the end of the line for Warner. I'm not sure what else he could do. The next Senate race in Virginia will be a Democrat incumbant spot, so I doubt Warner would run for that. If I had to bet, I'd say it's either VP nomination in '04 or nothing. Virginia is a key swing state, so that might be another factor.

Sen. George Allen and John Warner.

in 2012 or even 2008 it might be, but right now it hasn't gone Democratic in forever. However you're wrong about the senate race, both senators are Republicans, and George Allen, the more vulnerable of the two is up in 2006. It'd be great to Warner knock him out.

both our Senators are very hard-line reTHUGlicans (also known as cheap-labor-conservatives...real cheap, they both LOVE free labor, as in slaves and the confederacy)....I wish they would BOTH get thrown out of office by enlightened voters of VA...but John Warner ran in 2002 and won, unopposed on the ticket !!!! that really shocked me....that not a single Virginian would oppose the grandchild of tobacco plantation slave owners...

Virginian Senators - BOTH Cheap-labor-conservatives...

Senator George Allen
Senator John Warner

I gave out sample ballots to people at a polling place in Alexandra for him in 2001.

Will have to be a Black American or we're going to lose The VP can not be a rich white Guy

the blacks will vote Democrat anyway, and we don't have any real qualified ones right now (please don't say Sharpton and Mosely-Braun, a loudmouthed jackass and fraud-ridden ex-Senator aren't qualified)

Supports of Warner will probably leak to the press that he's on the short list (just as Edwards' supporters did in 2000), but he won't get chosen. He hasn't been in office long enough and couldn't guarantee a win in Virginia even if he had a fellow Southernor at the top of the ticket.