Bill Kristol Predicts Obama Veep As...Dick Gephardt?

Remember four years ago when the New York Post announced to the world that Dick Gephardt was going to be Kerry's pick for vice-president, except that it wasn't true, not one word of it, not even a syllable? Good times! And we were all reminded of those good times this morning on Fox News Sunday when the most genius man in punditry, William Kristol, confidentally predicted that Richard Gephardt would be Obama's vice-presidential pick. And it took Terry McAuliffe pronouncing Tim Russert's father - who is very much alive - dead and in heaven for my brain to to add a triple toe-loop to the quadruple axel spin that it did at this moment.

[WATCH.]

WALLACE: Who do you think he should pick or might pick?

LIASSON: I think he needs someone with foreign policy experience. By definition they'll be older than him. I think if you want to do the easy route, Ted Strickland probably will get you Ohio.

WALLACE: Governor of Ohio.

LIASSON: Which is a state that you really, really need. He doesn't have foreign policy experience. Ed Rendell.

WALLACE: Governor of Pennsylvania.

LIASSON: If they need him to get Pennsylvania I don't think that's not such a good thing for the Democrats. Sam Nunn I think would be great, but he's a little old.

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WALLACE: I'll give you one name.

KRISTOL: Dick Gephardt.

WALLACE: Former congressman, Missouri.

KRISTOL: Former Democratic leader in the congress. Very attractive to working class Democrats.

WILLIAMS: Very nice, but old news.

Uhm, yeah. Very attractive to working class Democrats. Who powered Gephardt to the presidential nomination all of ZERO times.

Naturally, one has to allow for the possibility that Kristol is making a one-in-a-million prediction here. So, if he turns out to be correct, I promise to bake him an apple pie while wearing a prom dress on the roof of the Newseum.

Comments

[SuiginTou7]

Kristol's been wrong so many time, you can bet he'll be wrong with this one.

[poppaculture]

Yes, SuiginTou7, agreed. How can someone be SO wrong SO often and still get face-time on TV???
Someone please put Kristol to pasture.

[coolkraft]

Richardson would be a good choice...latino votes...he has foreign experience and he brings some swing states in the west

[DRaymond]

Gee you wouildn't want Kristol to ruin his perfect record of being wrong about everything he's ever said?

I agree with the other commentators logic about needing foreign policy credentials and experience. In my mind that points nicely toward Richardson, That will also help him with Hispanics, which might cause several swing states to flip.

[in4success]

why hasn't bill k. been arrested for impersonating a human being (badly)?

[Dicklexicon]

Obama/Paul '08

he doesn't need the DNC or any other establishment telling him who to pick.

Obama needs Ron Paul
America needs BOTH

Re-elect NOBODY!!!

[metropixie]

Paul is a Nazi. A Nazi with some good ideas. That's how we ended up with the VW. Do your research and you'll know better what you're talking about. History is our teacher.

[Hotshortie]

I hope he's wrong cuz I'm hoping for Webb, Richardson, Biden or even Edwards. Some people with real guns.

Jim Webb is my top choice. I think he can go toe to toe with anyone they put up.

[tbrnotb]

Considering Kristol's been so "on the money" with all his political predictions, I hope Mr. Gephart knows he no longer has got a chance in.........(fill in the blank) for the VP spot.

[ResidentChimp]

I glad to see most Huffers are too stupid to see the value of this pick. I'm hoping Obama keeps to his marists friends, like Ayers of a Kennedy.

[in4success]

dude -- you really need to meet me for a drink one of these days -- nice quiet place out in the country . . . be certain to tell your ("friends?") you're going to a movie or to see your granny (oops, almost forgot -- you live in granny's basement).

really tho... my treat. no shit.

[dadw5boys]

Someone cancel Bill Kristols ticket please he repersents the worst possile slime in America right up there with Rove and Limpburger.

[eladora]

jesse ventura for veep----military exp, tough in a fight, how s that one?

[UnbiasView]

Jesse Ventura is no Democrat, his #1 policy is lowering taxes . . . sounds like a clash with Obama.

[in4success]

actually, his #1 policy is taking our country back from having been seized by foreign interests and domestic traitors.

[smithche]

YES < YES I Could not agree with you MORE!

[fearwig]

It's been well-documented that Bill Kristol is a psychic. Pretty much every prediction he has ever made has been true.

(/Trolling)

[jgalvan]

This guy is a pimple on life's rear end.

[AndrewMT]

Don't believe anything this Jewish extremist has to say. If he was a weather man and predicted a bright sunny day, I would wear a rain coat.

[Puller58]

I think he throws this out to try to muddy the water. I know how stupid Kristol sounds, but he isn't going to offer anything to Obama that would help him. (Kristol has a MAJOR boner for McCain.) So I'd take the thing with a silo full of salt.

[NoahVail]

So, does Bill Kristol have the same source that Robert Novak uses to make his predictions about the Obama campaign, or does Kristol pull this stuff out of his own ass? I mean, he is writing this for the NYT, so he couldn't just be making it up. Could he?