Bill Gates: McCain's "Dream Running Mate"

LA Times:

LA Times Business reports:

The Microsoft Corp. co-founder is mentioned by some in political circles as the "dream running mate" for Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, according to Politico.com.

The site asked 14 consultants, staffers, fundraisers and historians to name "their most unconventional -- but reasonably viable" vice presidential choices for McCain and Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee. Also making the list of eight long shots was Meg Whitman, the former chief executive of EBay Inc. and a McCain fundraiser.

Read the whole story: LA Times

Comments

[Cathexis]

12:44 PM on 07/02/2008

Bill Gates as Vice President?!? No way!

* We'd have a government with a monopoly on Executive Power; the Legislative branch would have a superior product, but too few would develop on it.

* The government would periodically freeze up, requiring us to start over.

* Every few years they'd put out a new government with basically the same functionality, but a different look, so you no longer knew where to find the functionality.

* Our State Department would be offshored to India.

[wm1066]

12:32 PM on 07/02/2008

Gates help design a system that makes companies and people keep paying for upgrades.
Its like buying a hammer and then having to buy that hammer again and again.
Evil in its conception.

[GoodDay]

11:08 AM on 07/02/2008

If Bill Gates can handle the massive and widespread business and government corruption of the Bush administration and still be a Republican, I guess he can do anything.

[RaraAvis17]

10:57 PM on 07/01/2008

I wouldn't take Gates as a Repugg, but who knows. He's too kind and caring with his money. He doesn't kill people for money like the rest of them do - or does he?

[Wiredwilly]

09:23 PM on 07/01/2008

God help us

[taoist]

09:06 PM on 07/01/2008

He ought to run for V P of India since he is shipping all of his jobs over their . I have NO respect for him at all. This country gave him the chance to become rich and he craps on it.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

08:37 PM on 07/01/2008

He's no republicon. He GAVE AWAY his fortune for the benefit of mankind. What republicon has EVER done that? No one, that's who.

[Average]

12:16 PM on 07/02/2008

Maybe Ted Kennedy did? Oh, and most of the RICH in Hollywood. Yep, there are some shining examples of Dems giving their money away.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

08:58 PM on 07/02/2008

You mean like Barbra Streisand giving away her hillside home to charity? That's just off the top of my head.

Go back and have another glass of koolaid. Putz.

[swift goat pet for truth]

07:51 PM on 07/01/2008

Why on earth would Gate want to be associated with a group of people who have demonstrated for 12 years that they do not know how to run an economy AND don't know the value of a dollar?

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

06:44 PM on 07/01/2008

Control, Alt and Delete

[shinxy]

06:38 PM on 07/01/2008

#1 He's not a Republican. Doy!

#2 The man has no people skills. A VP is supposed to sit there and look pretty and make nice photo ops, an Bill Gates can't do any of those things.

#3 If McCain names Gates the VP, the image war is over, with him on the losing side. Do you really want this election to look like Microsoft vs. Apple? If McCain wants to run on being the underdog, he's got another thing coming.

[jsarets]

05:33 PM on 07/01/2008

If McCain gets Bill Gates, then Obama can run with Google's Eric Schmidt, a well-respected Democratic CEO whose deep understanding of the Connected Age meshes well with Obama.

[americaforme]

05:30 PM on 07/01/2008

Are you crazy? That global traitor, VP? Insane, totaly.

[falco]

05:28 PM on 07/01/2008

I can hardly write as my sides hurt so much from laughing! Mr. Bill is one of the most hated and despised men in this country and you want to what???? Good for the Republicans! Go ahead. Great way to lose the presidency.

[FrictionSoul]

05:00 PM on 07/01/2008

Uh oh, time to reboot, ad nauseum.

[Chavez08]

05:01 PM on 07/01/2008

Gates is a prime example of how Globalization killed America. He whined like a little baby and had corrupt Congressional attack dogs open the floodgates on Asian visa and he destroyed tech field careers for hundreds of thousands of American graduates.

This piece of sh*t spends most of his time crying over India when the country that GAVE him his dream is in turmoil. He obviously could care less, he's a typical capitalist who is bored with money and he is now looking to amass world power.

[notinKansas]

01:12 AM on 07/02/2008

Yeah - how 'good' would it be to go from the oil VP to the visa VP?

Lord have mercy.