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tekhna I think it makes sense in a lot of ways. It'd just be an emulator/wrapper inside of Windows, not some malevolent Google monstrosity people seem to want to make it out to be. I think it's unlikely to happen but it's not a bad idea.
IMHO it is a bad idea. As many others mentioned already, the platform will be diluted and devaluated by developers since they would more than likely stop writing native code and consequently not making use of live tiles, toast notifications, contracts and etc resulting in a poor user experience.
Personally I am more concerned about Microsoft diverging developers to work on this in lieu of enhancing the platform itself. It already takes long enough for Microsoft to introduce features we want to see in WP so by adding another massive codebase into the platform, I can see only further delays and challenges.
Also by baking a Dalvik VM in a device would consume hardware resources that users who decided to stay clear of android apps could rather use more productively. Be it under a hypervisor or added directly into the WinPRT codebase, Dalvik will at the very least consume precious storage space that I for one would gladly be filling up with native apps or my own content.
Growing the WP user base organically has definitely been a challenge, but my guess is that some android compatibility (remember most google apps for instance would not work regardless) will convert few while driving away a few others (myself included) so it looks to me a lose-lose situation.