Who will be best for business?

The GOP have their candidate and it seems like the DEMS are going to fight this one til the Convention in June.  The question I am thinking about and everyone who is in marketing and business is which candidate is the best for business?

On the GOP side, John McCain has not talked a lot about the economy and has even admitted he isn't Mr. Economy.  John McCain has got to energize his base and it seems as if he has not been able to do that yet.  Those hardcore conservatives might not show up at the polls because they do not believe McCain is conservative enough to represent the Republican party.  Experts think McCain has to find a running mate who will make him more Republican red.  As far business goes,  I think Mitt Romney is the best choice because he did some great things in Mass. and his corporate background will attract most of those conservatives that are gun-shy about supporting McCain.  However, I do not think McCain will win with Romney because he still has too much to overcome even with Romney as his running mate.  There is only one man that can deliver a win for the GOP in my view, and that is former Secretary of State Colin Powell (my political role model in college).  He is moderate, but he is the one that can bring this home for the GOP.

As far as the DEMs go, Obama and Clinton are fighting this one til the end.  Personally, I think Obama is going to win, and if the DEMs want the White House back, he has to win.  So let's assume Obama wins, he tends to be on the liberal side of the DEMs.  He has a solid economic plan, but he needs to find a centrist running mate to bring it home.  The best candidate that could have done this for Obama is Mark Warner, our former governor, but he is in a U.S. Senate race that is pretty much already locked up in his favor (the tide is changing in Virginia, we haven't voted for a DEM candidate for president since 1964 but our Governor, and both of our U.S. Senators will be Democrats, so you have to make Virginia now a swing state along with places like Ohio, Pennyslvania, Florida, etc.).  However, Mark Warner is an Obama supporter (his wife even helped run Women for Obama during the Potomac Primaries).  So, the next choice has to be our very own Governor, Tim Kaine.  Just as popular as Mark Warner, Kaine is the centrist that will put Obama over the top with his strong economic and fiscal policies in Virginia.  If you took all the states that were won in 2000 by GOP and DEMs, but put Virginia in the Democratic column because of Gov. Kaine's popularity, Obama wins the White House.  This is going to be an exciting election!