Running mates: VIPs for VP

VIP VP: Bono

Name: Bono

Record: Singer for U2 / Amnesty International advocate / founder of DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) / Vanity Fair guest editor July 2007 / nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize / granted honorary knighthood by the U.K. / named as one of Time magazine's most influential people in the world 2006 / a "South Park" record-breaking turd (or something like that)

Leanings: You'd have to be living under a rock for the last 25 years to have not seen Bono in his shades speaking on some "important" world issue. When not whispering "Desire" in the ears of world leaders, his stadium-rocking band continues to become more popular and more annoying simultaneously.

Vice-ness: That whole being born in Ireland thing might hurt his chances for nabbing a nod, but Bono and his band were the Rudy Guiliani of the music world after the 9-11 terrorist attack propelling him to a prime position to potentially team with McCain in '08. But, like most connected to a Super Bowl halftime show, his God-like persona is brought down to his very mortal knees when the freedom-threatening Nipplegate debacle is referenced.