McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

August 29, 2008

Tim Pawlenty? Mitt Romney? Tom Ridge?

With Republican presidential candidate John McCain's VP choice due later today, these three names have been bandied about in recent days. While Ridge has historically been quiet on video game issues, Pawlenty and Romney (seen with McCain at left)come with major baggage as far as gamers are concerned.

That said, Ridge seems an unlikely choice, since he adds little to the McCain ticket. For one thing, he's older than the other two and McCain would seem to need some youthful balance in a running mate. For another, as former Homeland Security Director, he's too closely associated with the Bush Administration in a time when the electorate craves change. And although he is from a key state, he doesn't seem likely to swing Pennsylvania red in November.

That leaves Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts as potential VP choices. As we said, both have a negative history with video game issues.

Pawlenty signed Minnesota's notorious, 2006 "fine the buyer" legislation into law. The bill, which would have fined underage buyers of M-rated games $25, was quickly overturned by a federal judge. Minnesota also lost a subsequent appeal on that decision. Pawlenty, who has owned up to playing NHL2K5 with his kids, brings youth to the McCain ticket.

For his part, Romney (who apparently thinks torturing real people is okay) made the cartoon violence of video games a theme of his failed 2008 presidential bid. Romney is a favorite of the religious right, a group which is not particularly fond of McCain.

UPDATE: CNN is reporting that Pawlenty is out of the running and is also speculating that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is in the VP mix...

Comments

Re: McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

NBC News also confirms Romney is NOT McCain's choice.

Re: McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

Oh, hey.  Hope that's true!

Re: McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

Not looking forward to seeing Romney on this ticket...

Re: McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

Alaskas Govenor Sarah Palin was just picked as the Republican VP Candidate.

Re: McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

Yeah, guess she wasn't just in the mix then.

Re: McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

Interesting, If wikipedia is telling the Truth, Palin sounds pretty good. Not perfect, but pretty good.

Re: McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

Er..but you'd have to vote for McCain, and that is not good at all. Ever.

Re: McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

Hey, at least GP got one last dig in on Romney...

Re: McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

He was also looking at that Joe Liberman guy.

Re: McCain's VP Choice Not Likely to Impress Gamers

liek i said, the title and story is real newsworthy

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Posted 07/05/09 at 11:28am
GoodRobotUs: It's not a tactic I see catching on in the future.
Posted 07/05/09 at 11:28am
GoodRobotUs: Just amuses me that Jack strives to match the most infantile of his his enemies, regardless of who he's actually talking to...
Posted 07/05/09 at 10:49am
JDKJ: Or "Just because the customer isn't really our customer doesn't mean they aren't completely retarded."
Posted 07/05/09 at 10:46am
GoodRobotUs: They could release it as a Demo tape for training and call it : 'Just because the customer is always right, doesn't mean they aren't, on occasion, knobs'.
Posted 07/05/09 at 10:42am
JDKJ: GRU: I suspect that the person Jack-O's been speaking with says, "Please go right ahead and tell me your concerns, Mr. Thompson," then mutes the line. Fifteen minutes later, they unmute it and say, "Thanks for sharing your concerns. Good day."
Posted 07/05/09 at 10:25am
GoodRobotUs: 'And yet he's still smarter than you Jack...'
Posted 07/05/09 at 10:25am
GoodRobotUs: You just know Jack's gonna phone your work again: 'Please Sir! Please Sir, Andrew came to school on only 3 hours sleep!!'
Posted 07/05/09 at 03:56am
Andrew Eisen: Hmm... You know, I think it would be wise if I stopped working on my music and tried to get a little sleep seeing as I have to work in 3 hours.
Posted 07/04/09 at 11:08pm
Andrew Eisen: LGJ - Not that I'm aware of. The Twitter feed was someone else's live blog of the debate.
Posted 07/04/09 at 11:04pm
Leet Gamer Jargon: @AE: Wait, wait, wait: JT has a Twitter account?! Are you serious?
Posted 07/04/09 at 09:24pm
PHX Corp: For those that want to know what i watching it's called man vs cartoon(a.k.a fixing Wile E. coyote's Mistakes one trap at a time by EMERTEC)
Posted 07/04/09 at 08:20pm
GoodRobotUs: Went out for my Mum's 65th Birthday, which is the only relevance 4/7 has in the UK for me ;)
Posted 07/04/09 at 08:18pm
Andrew Eisen: Beach + fireworks + root beer + strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, whipped topping, and pound cake = my Fourth of July!
Posted 07/04/09 at 07:58pm
GoodRobotUs: Which seems to be the only point Jack proved, that some people find some games offensive. i.e. Nothing.
Posted 07/04/09 at 07:57pm
GoodRobotUs: The discussion was supposed to be whether games were dangerous not 'Do you find some games offensive'...
Posted 07/04/09 at 07:55pm
GoodRobotUs: Some agreed, some didn't, but it was their choice to make, not the governments.
Posted 07/04/09 at 07:55pm
GoodRobotUs: By asking the audience their opinion, he more or less proved that it's a matter of personal choice
Posted 07/04/09 at 07:55pm
GoodRobotUs: Meh, he ended proving Mark's point for him
Posted 07/04/09 at 07:26pm
Erik: Jack if you are reading this you are a LIAR. There is no legal weight to the MPAA's ratings.
Posted 07/04/09 at 07:24pm
JDKJ: I still think my buddy the midget who rides a unicycle backwards while juggling four bowling pins would have been a much bigger hit with that crowd. And he can make up statistics and misinterpret studies, too.
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