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...flattering speculation that the party nominee just might turn to her when the time comes to pick a running mate. "I would never ask for that job, and I would never run for that job," she insists. But if the nominee telephones to offer her a spot on the ticket, she adds coyly, "I wouldn't turn down the call...
Although 55% of these officeholders are Democrats, the party has no women in the Senate and only 13 in the House. The result: the list of women who might conceivably appear on a Democratic ticket this year is quite limited. Herewith, the women other than Geraldine Ferraro and Dianne Feinstein most often mentioned as Democratic Veep possibilities: >Patricia Schroeder, 43. A Harvard-trained lawyer and a Congresswoman since 1973, the Coloradan is a leading member of the House Armed Services Committee. While getting high marks for her military expertise, Schroeder is often seen as a knee-jerk dove...
...Hart is nominated, Schroeder, who co-chairs his national campaign, would be ruled out for geographic reasons. If Mondale is nominated, Schroeder thinks she would be considered only if Hart turned down the job. Says she: "My guess is that Gary Hart would add a lot more [to the ticket]. I'm only a surrogate." >Corinne C. ("Lindy") Boggs, 68. She came to office the old-fashioned way, by succeeding her late husband, Louisiana Congressman Hale Boggs. But she has stayed for six terms by carefully looking after her 45% black New Orleans district, and applying four decades...
Griffiths was elected Lieutenant Governor of Michigan in 1982. South Carolina Senator Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings, campaigning last fall for the Democratic nomination, often mentioned her as a potential running mate. The sprightly septuagenarian beams at the prospect of being on the ticket, and swats off suggestions that her age might be a handicap. "You could say the same thing about Ronald Reagan in 1980," she says. There are more serious minuses: as a Midwesterner, she would offer no geographic diversity to Minnesotan Walter Mondale; she has also criticized Gary Hart on the Chrysler bailout. But if she were tapped, says...
Beyond this tier of vice-presidential possibilities, the roster of women prospects thins rapidly. Even women with national experience have nagging liabilities. Four-term Maryland Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski, 48, for example, is too abrasive and pro-union (she has a 100% AFL-CIO rating) to help a national ticket. Others, like Connecticut's freshman Congresswoman Barbara Kennelly, 48, simply lack seasoning. "Potential vice-presidential candidates have got to have experience," says Betty Smith, Democratic state chairman for Northern California. "There are very few women who are in that position right...