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Former spokesperson for Speaker John Boehner Terry Holt on Mitt Romney's focus for choosing a vice president candidate.
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Back -- you thank you Robert there haven buzz out there even gossip that CIA director David Petraeus would join Mitt Romney.
On the GOP ticket as running mate but with -- shooting down.
Those -- are -- all our.
Who is the best candidate.
For vice president on the GOP ticket was bring -- Terry Holt former spokesman for speaker John Boehner he joins us from Washington DC.
Terry what should be the primary goal for Mitt Romney in choosing a running mate is it to win a stay it.
Or is it to have a bad guy on the ticket -- can fight off all the nasty and the nasty slings and arrows that are being the run.
By the Obama campaign.
Well you know that there is.
Eight campaign.
Job for the vice presidential pick they've got to be good -- -- they may be could be an attack dog we think of Spiro Agnew in the old days for Richard Nixon.
But ultimately.
The task that win voters look at your pick is voters have to see.
A potential president in your pick someone who can take the job somebody could run the country and so that's really the first test.
And that was President Bush chose Dick Cheney had the credibility he had that experience.
And and so that is the first thing that voters buy it.
That they see that you fit the profile and that's the number one thing and I think frankly the political things are secondary.
What about.
What because it I guess our do you expect it is their chance that there's a surprise -- Because.
Again Sarah Palin a major surprise during the last election is there a chance at this point there's a surprise -- you thank.
Well I think that people are going to they expect.
The unexpected -- frankly we need to pick someone that the American people.
Can't can get can get an immediate sense of satisfaction credibility and it.
I think we will be surprised -- we don't know who it is than they've got a very good job of keeping their cards close to their -- but.
I don't expect up Palin's style pick someone that has low name might be someone that money comes from out of nowhere I expect somebody that has prevent it.
Let me ask you this because if you look at Walt desist going to the the calculation at all.
Someone who isn't then a lightning rod for the Obama campaign and I think about a Paul Ryan because again Paul Ryan's budget plan.
It would give.
The Obama of folks paid a lot of ammunition to again -- keep hammering.
The Romney campaign whether it's about change in Medicare altogether.
Yeah that that that the main thing for the Obama campaign is going to be continue to try and tear down the profile of Mitt Romney I don't know that.
Except for the initial news cycles around selection of the by his vice presidential pick that.
The vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party.
Will be a target overall I think the Obama people need that -- down Mitt Romney the best they can.
And and that there at the VP pick won't be much more of a target.
Quickly is again -- -- Terry giving a name did not say I don't -- I think Rob Portman or Tim Pawlenty -- the people that are that go to guys and this one.
Terry good to say thank you so much here out -- cut jobs but we got -- coming up the general problem.
