There are a lot of grifters and opportunists out there. As long as they can make a few bucks, they don't care if they look like idiots. The "reality" shows are full of them.

Look at Sarah Palin. She and her inbred family have done very well from her failed candidacy. From her point of view, she's better off than if she had won. She can still hoover money out of the pockets of the faithful without having to turn in a full-day's work.

That guy has so much naked ambition you can almost see it radiating off his body like heat waves. I'm sure he was absolutely enraged at having been aced out by The Dumbest Life Form In America in '08, after having camped out in John McCain's pants for two years. Timmy approaches Mitt with his lips formed like those of an inflatable party doll. Take me, use me, Mitt; I'm yours.

VP candidate with the least damage. I think anyone else would take much more abuse (ala Palin)

Start turning over some of the rocks in his career and you'll find some slugs. Read this: it came out when McCain was considering him. http://www.tnr.com/article/extreme-makeover

He's not squeaky-clean, and notwithstanding his aw-shucks, blue-collar demeanor, he's mean as a snake - a hard-core GOP ideologue who did everything he could to cut funding for schools, medical assistance for the poor and infrastructure to avoid raising rich people's taxes. Had it not been for the Dem legislature he'd have done to us what Scott Walker did to Wisconsin.

He's about as popular in Minnesota as a case of hemorrhoids. If he's Mittens' running mate and the ticket crashes and burns, he has no political future, at least not in this state.

Not to mention the 35W bridge collapse. I'll never forget seeing him sweat after that. That bastard cut MNDOT funding for years. He knew it was his fault.

I am seeing this more and more. When I was in school (many years ago), I was taught to use an apostrophe to show possession or in place of ommitted letters in contractions. Have the rules changed while I wasn't looking?

but a lot of people absolutely do not understand the difference between a plural and a possessive. I'm certainly not saying that's the case with the OP. That may simply be a typo, which we all make from time to time.

The other thing that confuses people is that it's is a contraction, meaning it is. The possessive, meaning belonging to it, is its no apostrophe.

These things are not really taught in school these days.

But again, since I myself have more than once put some awful grammar or punctuation or usage error in the subject line of my post, and not realized it until too late to change, I try to cut some slack for everyone.

Although getting lie and lay wrong is a felony in my book.

and make more money after they lose again.

This bozo wants an act 2 so badly

I know one guy who really, really wants to be his VP:

If they win they'll get $200k a year plus secret service, a mansion, and benefits. If they don't win they'll get notoriety positive or negative to use for anything from launching a political campaign or group (such as Sara Palin did with the Tea Party) or getting Tv/ad deals such as appearing on talk shows or even a permanent spot on a Fox show

and are never heard from again. Palin is the exception; her career, such as it is, is being kept alive by the gullible wanking mouthbreathers who comprise her fan base. Most of the time that kind of continuing fame doesn't happen. I'm sure some VP possibles might turn down an offer because a defeat under the current circumstances (that is, Romney is a turkey of a candidate) is likely to set them on a path to political limbo.

It didn't particularly help Geraldine Ferraro, Lloyd Bentsen, James Stockdale or Jack Kemp, to name a few. Or John Edwards, but getting his dick stuck in his zipper might be the greater cause of his current well-deserved obscurity.