Will Obama choose a republican vice presidential candidate?

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According to Politico, Barack Obama is considering a republican to be his running mate:

Barack Obama's vice presidential search team has floated the name of a member of President Bush's first-term Cabinet, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, as Obama's running mate.

The search committee, now led by Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder, raised Veneman's name — among others — in discussions with members of Congress, said two Democrats familiar with the conversations.

The mention of Veneman's name surprised Democratic lawmakers. The low-profile Republican was close to food and agriculture industries but clashed with farm-state Democrats and environmentalists during her tenure, which lasted from 2001 to 2004.

Despite what the right-wing would have us believe, "bipartisanship" does not mean "finally giving in and letting the republicans have whatever they want." It was rumoured that in 2004, John Kerry was attempting to woo John McCain to be his running mate - thankfully, that did not happen. You see, the point of voting for Democrats is to get Democrats into office. I want a Democratic majority in Congress and the Senate and Democrats in the White House. I do not want some of unholy hybrid of the two main parties infesting the executive branch of the government.

Why does Obama keep pulling these stunts? Is he trying to make it easy to not vote for him?