If this moment really is going to be historic, McCain should listen to his running-mate when she is speaking, he should look her in the eye, and he should treat her with the same respect that he would have given to any of the men he considered choosing as a VP candidate. ❋ Maxine (2009)
And the guy running for president and selecting Sarah Palin as his running-mate? ❋ Katrina L. Rogers (2012)
Some thought he flinched in the traditional role of running-mate attack dog for Bob Dole in the '96 presidential election. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And after eking out a GOP primary victory against two dramatically underfunded opponents, his general election bid -- marred by a Keystone-Cops, revolving-door campaign team and the seemingly weekly release of new allegations about the misuse of taxpayer funds by Williams and his running-mate -- has been nothing short of a disaster. ❋ Jonathan (2011)
Brady said on October 5 said a $50 billion bond borrowing scheme to rescue Illinois's faltering pension system is an option on table, a scheme that Brady's own lieutenant governor running-mate, Jason Plummer, 28, has implicitly criticized. ❋ David Ormsby (2010)
"I'm very grateful for all the things she's done to invigorate our party," he said, trying his best not to think about the agonizing 15 months or so that he'll have to awkwardly refrain from endorsing anyone so as not to totally alienate his former running-mate. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2010)
She did not step down from the governorship when she gave birth to a child with special needs, or when she was asked to be McCain's running-mate. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As great as Grant has been, his running-mate James Starks really hasn't managed to get anything going, and he is stuffed on consecutive carries and then on a short pass too before Crosby is sent on to convert a 28-yard kick. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Says Patrick, noting ex-ESPN running-mate Keith Olbermann, who's also part of NBC's cast Sunday: "We've been talking to (NBC Sports head) Dick Ebersol about a reality show where Keith and I live together." ❋ Unknown (2009)
He had originally tried to recruit her as his presidential running-mate. ❋ Tom Phillips In Rio De Janeiro (2010)
He did tell an NPR interviewer that McCain's running-mate, Sarah Palin, wasn't up to the task of taking over the presidency in a crisis but could become "adequate." ❋ Unknown (2011)
When McGovern drafted him to replace Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri as his running-mate, Shriver was good humored that he had been McGovern's seventh pick – including Ted Kennedy. ❋ AP (2011)
For the next month, put aside that we didn't get medicare for all, that Howard Dean should have been the nominee in 2004, that Gore should have stuck up for Clinton in 2000 instead of distancing himself and choosing turncoat Lieberman as a running-mate, and all the other stupid Orange Revolution-like hangovers of the Democratic Party over the last couple decades. ❋ Andrea Chalupa (2010)
I heard him defend his choice of running-mate and speak tenderly of his old dear friend during the darkest days of the health care debacle (and that was after Joe campaigned with McCain). ❋ Unknown (2010)
