Strickland for Veep?

He's too old to be president in 8 years, but focusing on the short term, he does balance out the ticket and could help Obama carry the most crucial state on the map... thoughts?

From Novak, via RCP:

Support is growing in Democratic ranks for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland as vice president. He would bring to the ticket maturity (66 years old), experience (six terms in Congress) and moderation (rated "A" by the National Rifle Association). He is very popular in Ohio, a state Republicans must carry to elect a president.

grinning and nodding behind her while she scared a lot of us with her Joan Crawford send-up?

Strickland's "bobblehead" performance here is enough to disqualify him. Ack!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjcT_sri_2E

The guys who are probably best suited to help carry Obama into the White House are former Hillary supporters (Strickland, Rendell, Clark). We've got to get over the primary and start focusing on the real goal.

if obama wants to win in november he'll need a broader coalition than what he has at the moment. that means he'll have to run to the middle. will the newer democrats who have joined him stay on when he's forced to play "politics as usual" to get elected and then to govern should he get elected, or will they be idealistic purists and jump ship or just stay home.
i've noticed his continuing support for war funding is often overlooked here, and i'm not trying to play "gotcha" but he has to walk a pretty fine line if he wants to win over the mushy middle.
i don't think it would be a good idea to offer hillary the veep spot, but he'll have to make some overture to the conservative/moderate wing of the party. not to mention the indies. as much as i think americans really want change, i think they'll vote for the same ole same rather than take a risk on what will be dubbed by the media and the gop as a radical liberal ticket.
how will his early supporters handle it when he's forced to compromise, and he will be. so far he's only gone after the democrats and even they're pretty evenly split. as much as the country is going to hell on a stick at the moment, mccain is still running just about even with both democratic contenders. imo the democrats can't win without peeling off some moderate repubs.

I have no evidence to support that as a claim, since it's just a hunch.

Agree that it would make Ohio an easier challenge.

Kaptor and Brown deserve consideration from the Buckeye State, too. Love 'em both.

kind of put him back into the doghouse with me, just when he was starting to repair his image.

elder bush, which i think is a good thing. I mean the only other superpower in the world collapsed, and elder bush made it a pretty soft landing for the world.

and did a piss-poor job.

As for Bush, I think his failure to handle the collapse of the Soviet Union was monumental.

We knew that after repressive regimes across Europe fell, there would be problems. The problems in Kosovo were foreseeable and obvious, but there was no international plan for how to deal with it. We didn't seem to have a plan to deal with ANYTHING in a post-Soviet world. George just watched it happen.

And as much as I like Ted, I don't think he alone has the ability to deliver my state.

almost too "political" of a choice? On the ticket for almost no other reason than he's from Ohio.

For Hillary.