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From this Monday's Your World with Neil Cavuto, Bloody Bill Kristol had some predictions for guest host Stuart Varney on Mitt Romney's timing and picks for veep. According to Kristol, Romney is going to pick next week, his guess on Thursday. And he believes the choices are down to Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Paul Ryan, who he says his magazine, The National Review is advocating for, and Gov. Chris Christie who Kristol claims is still in the running.

So I guess it's safe to assume Mittens will be waiting until the convention to announce his pick and it'll be Pawlenty or Portman, since Kristol's usually wrong about everything.

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney is warning presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to choose his vice presidental nominee wisely because Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made a "mistake" by picking former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R).

During an interview clip that aired on Sunday, ABC's Jonathan Karl asked Cheney, who reportedly selected himself to be on the Republican ticket with George W. Bush, how important it was for Romney to handle his VP pick differently from McCain.

"Pretty important," Cheney insisted. "That one, I don't think was well handled. ... And the test to get on that small list has to be, is this person capable of being president of the United States?"

"What about the other considerations?" Karl wondered. "Can you bring states, you know, reach out to a specific demographic -- woman, Hispanic?"

"Those are important issues, but they should never be allowed to override that first proposition," Cheney explained. "And I think that was one of the problems McCain had. I like Gov. Palin, I've met her, I know her, she's an attractive candidate, but based on her background -- she had only been governor for two years -- I don't think she passed that test."

"I think that was a mistake."

(h/t: ABC News)

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Here's Dave's Top Ten List from this Wednesday evening's Late Show With David Letterman: Questions on the Application to Become Mitt Romney's Running Mate.

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I can't think of anyone less qualified than the Snowbilly from Wasilla to weigh in on who Mitt Romney ought to pick for his running mate in the upcoming presidential election, but apparently Sean Hannity believes inquiring minds want to know. And of course Palin used it as an opportunity to beat up on that "liberal media" that supposedly treated her unfairly when McCain picked her as his running mate.

HANNITY: Question Governor and four years ago you were selected and you didn't know you were going to be selected, you were telling me, until what, four days until you were, you didn't know you were even being vetted four days prior, which is a pretty amazing story.

The names I hear most often are Portman in Ohio, Rubio in Florida and Paul Ryan, who will be on this program tomorrow night, from Wisconsin. Good choices?

PALIN: They are good choices. They are and I think that Gov. Romney will probably play it safe, relatively speaking in terms of finding someone who is a known commodity, so that the media doesn't do what the media did to me; making things up and kind of trashing somebody's reputation and record in order to distract from what the election really was supposed to be about.

So, those are good names. There are other great names out there being batted around and I look forward to seeing who that one is who can assist Gov. Romney in moving forward.

I hate to break it to you Sarah, but if there was some damage done to your reputation, you brought it on yourself and I think John McCain's staffers like Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace who dished out the dirt for Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's book, Game Change, that HBO made into a movie did your reputation as much or more damage as anything you can blame on the so called "lamestream media" you love to bash and that you now work for. If what was represented in that movie is true, they were pretty horrified by the fact that you were not remotely qualified to be vice president or step in as president if something happened to his health not too long after McCain picked you to run with him.

Now sadly, we can all thank him for inflicting you on the American body politic and as a new member of the wingnut welfare club for years to come over at Fox noise, where propagandist and fellow right-wing flame thrower Hannity thinks you have anything of value to add to the discussion on who else should potentially be allowed to be one breath away from being our next president, that we might rightfully be terrified of, as anyone with an ounce of sense was of you.

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Here we go again with Bloody Bill Kristol proving he's wrong about just about everything. From this Sunday's Fox News Sunday, Kristol thinks it would be a great idea for Mitt Romney to pick Condoleeza Rice as his running mate. We all know how well listening to Kristol's advice worked out for John McCain last time around when he picked Caribou Barbie.

Considering, as Roberts noted, that Rice has already said she doesn't want it and that Republicans are desperately trying to pretend George W. Bush never existed, I'm not expecting Mittens to be naming Rice as his choice for veep any time soon. In the mean time I guess we can all just hope he's silly enough to listen to Kristol.

ROBERTS: Right. I want to finish out this week with something else that Bill wrote about, and that is the potential veepstakes and Ann Romney saying we're looking at a woman.

Do you think that woman is... ?

KRISTOL: I think it could be Condoleeza Rice. And I think Ann Romney is very close to Mitt Romney, in certain respects (ph). I know she's a very impressive woman in her own right. I don't think she's just talking. I think if she says the Romney campaign is looking at a woman as a possible V.P. pick, (inaudible) --

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ROBERTS: But Condi just said time and time again, no thanks, don't want it. It's not me.

KRISTOL: Well, Dick Cheney said no, thanks, I don't want it in 2000. And the truth is, if you just step back -- and, I mean, I have -- I, myself am for Paul Ryan or Marco Rubio and other types like that. But if you are -- as the Romney campaign is -- data-driven and you look at polls and you look at Condoleeza Rice as favorable and unfavorable ratings, including among swing voters, women voters, et cetera, you could make a case that -- and she's totally qualified. But she also be an exciting pick. You could talk yourself into picking Condoleeza Rice.

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Never mind the John Doe investigation and the possibility that Scott Walker could get indicted in the coming months for the scandal that Ken recently wrote about here, Piers Morgan decided to press the latest darling of the right-wing, now that he won his recall election on whether he'd be interested in accepting an offer by Mitt Romney to run as his vice president.

Apparently Morgan believes his all of his viewers are completely oblivious to the investigation of Walker and did his part to make sure that those who are remained that way with this nonsense. Even Walker had a look of pain on his face while trying to explain why he'd turn Mitt Romney down if he was foolish enough to offer him a spot on the ticket.

Walker maintained that Mitt Romney should pick another of his fellow Wisconsinites instead, Rep. Paul Ryan. I'd be more than happy to see Romney take Walker's advice. If they think putting the poster-boy for dismantling our social safety nets on the ticket would be helpful and highlighting his positions as part of the presidential campaign, by all means, be my guest.

Walker shoots down VP talk:

Following his survival of a Wisconsin recall effort, Republican Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday pushed back against the idea of being tapped as a potential running mate for Mitt Romney.

Political observers point out that not only is Walker a rising star in the GOP, but having his name on the ticket could further push the blue state of Wisconsin into the Republican column this November.

Walker, however, had a different name in mind.

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I'm not sure what David Gregory has been smoking that he felt the need to ask former Speaker of the House and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich if he a: had any advice for Gov. Martin O'Malley should he run for president at some time in the future and b: if there's a snowball's chance in hell of Mitt Romney asking Gingrich to be his running mate, but he actually asked both near the end of his interview with the two of them on Meet the Press.

Newt Gingrich: 'Highly implausible' I would be Romney's running mate:

Former GOP candidate Newt Gingrich said it would be "highly implausible" for him to join Mitt Romney on the ticket as vice president.

Asked about his interest in serving as Romney's number two, Gingrich refused to rule it out, but made clear that he was not expecting to be in the running.

"I think that's highly implausible," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I find that as implausible as you find it."[...]

Appearing alongside Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who has been rumored to be a 2016 Democratic candidate for the White House, Gingrich offered pointed advice for a potential run.

"Raise a lot of money," he said, emphasizing the difficulties of a presidential bid.

"This has been a brutal, tough process at least since 1800, and it hasn't gotten any less brutal. It probably shouldn't," he said. "If you're not tough enough to get to the presidency, you're not tough enough to be president."

I doubt Gov. O'Malley could use any of the advice Newt Gingrich could give him about being a successful presidential candidate, but if he needs some advice on how to sell books while pretending he wants to be president, I'm sure Gingrich could be very helpful in that regard.

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Right after declaring on Greta Van Susteren's show that President Obama has been "ham handed in the way he's handling the economy and foreign affairs" and that Rush Limbaugh and Chris Christie are right for criticizing him for heaven forbid something Republicans are going to do from now until the cows come home, which is campaigning for the next election, Bachmann let Greta know who some of her choices might be for either Attorney General or for Vice President if she were fortunate enough to win the GOP primary.

So who did she name? The former Senator from Pennsylvania whose name shall not be Googled, Rick Santorum for A.G. or potentially V.P. and the hairpiece that wanted to keep his ratings up for his reality show before President Obama made a fool out of him at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, Donald Trump for V.P. as well.

And the GOP clown show that is their primary race continues....

Even my lifelong Republican father who really doesn't follow politics much is ashamed of this crowd.

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Vice President Joe Biden Sunday brushed off the idea that Democrats would lose the House in fall elections.

"I don't think it will be bad at all," Biden told ABC's Jake Tapper. "I think we're going to shock the heck out of everybody."

"When people take a look at what has happened since we have taken office in November and compare it to the alternative, we're going to be in great shape," he said.

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The Tea Party as a whole is not racist but racism has been expressed at Tea Party events, according to Vice President Joe Biden.

ABC's Jake Tapper asked Biden Sunday if he believed there were racist elements in the Tea Party.

"The truth is," Biden began. "Elements involved with some of the Tea Party folks expressed racist views. We saw it on television."

"I wouldn't characterize the Tea Party as racist," said Biden.

"Members, people on the periphery of their things have expressed unfortunate comments. It was all over TV, your network. Black congressman walking up the stairs of the capitol," Biden continued.

"I don't believe, the president doesn't believe that the Tea Party is a racist organization. We don't believe that. Very conservative. Very different views on government and a whole lot of things. But it is not a racist organization," he said.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declined Sunday to comment on the matter. When asked about racism in the Tea Party by CNN's Candy Crowley, McConnell responded, "Oh my goodness -- in the whole country is there racism?"

"I'm not interested in getting into that debate," he said. "There are all kinds of things in America that make me uncomfortable, both on the right and the left."