Romney, Hillary, Campaign Loans, And The Vice Presidency

I read an article about Romney…  and it said that Romney had loaned his campaign $45 million dollars, which he is filing to change from a loan to a contribution, essentially forgiving the debt.

The article also said by doing this that he cleared the “legal deck” for him to be able to be a VP candidate…

Former Gov. Mitt Romney, who’s increasingly visible on the campaign trail on behalf of the man who beat him for the Republican presidential nomination, Sen. John McCain, is about to forgive the $45 million he loaned himself for the primary struggles.

The legal move of filing papers with the Federal Election Commission re-declaring Romney’s loans as contributions is imminent, according to a report by Michael Kranish on the Boston Globe website. It would clear the legal deck for Romney to become a candidate again as, oh, say, the vice presidential Republican running mate of McCain.

 

To be honest, I had not even thought about campaign debt being a roadblock on the path to the Vice Presidency in the legal sense…  I mean, I would have just thought it would have made that pick that much less attractive…  but a legal roadblock?  Wow, ok… 

So, anyway, I suspect that Hillary’s pay off the debt effort is because she wants to clear her “legal deck” just in case…  especially given the fact that she is not asking for any of her personal loans to be paid back.  I suspect she will file similar paperwork to what Romney has soon. 

And that maybe it could be why Obama is draggin his damn feet, refusing to send an email blast on her behalf and “forgetting” to ask for people to help her?

He wants the reason she can’t be VP because of a legal technicality so he doesn’t have to take the blame perhaps?

I might just bet on it.