{"id":4262,"date":"2011-07-05T11:07:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T15:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2011-07-05T11:07:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T15:07:02","slug":"not-going-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4262","title":{"rendered":"Not going to happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some rumormongering from Fred Dicker, “Obama to ask Cuomo to be 2012 running mate: sources<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

“… Former New York GOP boss William Powers<\/a> … was effusive in his praise of Cuomo’s<\/a> successes in the just-ended legislative session, and in his prediction of the freshman governor’s political future …\u00a0“I don’t think there’s any doubt Obama<\/a> is going to pick him as his running mate. The president is in trouble and [Vice President Joseph] Biden<\/a> doesn’t bring anything to his ticket. \u00a0 “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?’ ” …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, he’d say No.<\/p>\n

Andrew Cuomo’s political stock is rising, Obama’s is sinking. \u00a0There’s simply no reason for Cuomo to tie his political fortune to the Obama administration. \u00a0If he were to join an Obama ticket he would inherit all of Obama’s negatives. \u00a0Assuming he is even interested in running for president, Cuomo could just wait until ’16 or later and run on his own record which thus far has been considerably better than I and most other people expected it would be.<\/p>\n

That being said, I don’t see Obama dropping Biden from the ticket unless a major health issue arises. \u00a0First off, who would want to run with him? \u00a0Obama’s popularity is clearly on the decline<\/a>. \u00a0Second, it wouldn’t help his re-election bid. \u00a0The problem with the Obama administration is Obama. \u00a0Biden is background noise.<\/p>\n