A Prominent Republican is joining a prominent Democrat in predicting that Gov. Cuomo will become President Obama’s running mate for vice president next year.
Former New York GOP boss William Powers, credited with playing a key role in electing Rudy Giuliani mayor and George Pataki governor, was effusive in his praise of Cuomo’s successes in the just-ended legislative session, and in his prediction of the freshman governor’s political future.
“Andrew had a fabulous session. It was fabulous. A property-tax cap, ethics reform and, for Democrats, same-gender marriage,” said Powers.
“I don’t think there’s any doubt Obama is going to pick him as his running mate. The president is in trouble and [Vice President Joseph] Biden doesn’t bring anything to his ticket.
“The president will call him up later this year and say, ‘Andrew, you have to do this for the good of the country.’ What’s Andrew going to say, ‘No?’ ”
Cuomo, who saw a flurry of predictions last week in the wake of the gay-marriage victory that he’ll run for president in 2016, has repeatedly refused to discuss the possibility of higher office.
He wouldn’t comment either on Powers’ prediction, but a source familiar with his thinking half-jokingly said this when asked what action Cuomo would take if Obama called to offer him the nation’s No. 2 position: “He won’t answer.”
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown earlier this year also predicted that Obama would pick Cuomo to replace Biden, who he claimed would be named by the president to replace Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“He’s a big name, a big-state governor, and a Democrat who is taking on the issue of public-employee salaries and pensions. Plus, he looks good,” Brown said of Cuomo.
Cuomo wouldn’t have to resign as governor to run for vice president, although many voters would likely react negatively since he could be leaving office just two years into his four-year term.
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Maybe there should be a question mark at the end of the headline. A bit misleading otherwise.
Cuomo don’t associate your self with Obama keep him at least two arms lengths away and out of the white house
Dubious story. It sounds very unlikely. Perhaps the author was celebrating the 4th withan excess of beer.
The last time a Vice President was dumped was in 1944.
Adding Cuomo to the ticket will help Obama carry New York, which is not a state he needs to worry about. It will help him get the liberal vote (as if the liberals would switch and vote Republican???).
well maybe cuomo should run for president in 2012 and pick obamo for v.p.?
akuperma:
Actually, the last time was in 1976, when Pres. Gerald Ford ran with Bob Dole instead of Nelson Rockefeller. To be fair, it was Rockefeller who offered to be dropped.
The reason vice presidential candidates have not been dropped since 1944 is that since that time, from the Truman-Barkley ticket of 1948, presidential candidates have chosen their running mates (with the exception of the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket of 1956), rather than by party delegates or bosses, as happened before. The new precedent was noted in Section 2 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
What does that say about Obama? He needs Cuomo because people will vote for Cuomo and not for him. That certainly shows he has a lack of confidence in himself. He is grasping for straws because he knows he doesn’t have a chance.
Why does The YWN insist on constantly publishing ridiculous articles. This doesnt help Klal Yisroel. This is the most ridiculous article coming from the worst newspaper in NY.
No. 1: I like your preference for clarity, but the source of this article is The New York Post – that’s enough of a question mark.
East meets west. Bad combination. (Hitler y”sh met with the mufti also, remember?)
The last time the Democratic candidate picked a running mate who was neither a sitting Vice President or a sitting US Senator was 1940. And as noted above, that person, Henry Wallace, was dumped from the ticket in 1944.