Pragmatist
I don’t know a lot about him, and I tend to think the most important thing for a VP to do is not negatively impact the P’s campaign – but I’ll offer up a gut reaction anyway: He feels a lot like Romney, who I view as a conservative pragmatist.


RE: Pragmatist by Occams
who I view as a conservative pragmatist.
I know what you mean, but I am not sure if that term is a tautology or an oxymoron. The sentiment reminds me of Marx: not Karl, but Groucho, who said.
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.