when i was young, my grandpa told me that picking a veep was just like picking your nose, except you can’t wipe your vice president under the couch.

Posted by: wafflestomper at March 19, 2004 05:22 PM

I understand they actually tried that with Spiro Agnew …

Posted by: Alan at March 19, 2004 07:54 PM

Maybe nobody wants to be a freind with Kerry because he is a going to be a looser. Only the terrorists and dictators endorse him but none of the coalition 86 have endorsed him.
Too bad the Vice presedent has to be American because he has lots of endorsing terrorists who would like to get into the whitehouse…. to plant a bomb!

Posted by: Al Uzza at March 20, 2004 03:24 AM

Alan: How about McCain’s defense of Kerry. Doesn’t that deserve a seperate post.

Posted by: Anthony at March 20, 2004 02:18 PM

I suppose that “McCain’s defense of Kerry” may deserve a separate post as much as Zell Miller’s outright public endorsement of Bush; probably it deserves it less, as McCain merely defended Kerry, quite possibly out of senatorial collegiality, whereas Miller, a very senior Senate Democrat, actually endorsed Bush and wrote a book about it. I do not remember seeing a post about Miller’s endorsement of Bush.

Back to the topic, the choice of vice-presidental-candidate will give Kerry an opportunity for significant free publicity. I think he will time the annoucement of his choice for maximum impact. Probably this consideration means the choice will be made as close to the election as possibile, which, I think, would be immediately before the convention in Boston. The choice of a vice-presidental-candidate can have a big effect on the prospects of the ticket. Think of the huge boost the Democrat ticket got in 2000 with the choice of Joseph Liebermann for vice-presidental-candidate. It should be interesting to watch and speculate, but I do not expect any definitive news soon.

Posted by: Average Joe at March 20, 2004 03:17 PM

RUSH SAID HE`D DO IT…[;-)

Posted by: Rob..NC at March 20, 2004 11:18 PM

RUSH SAID HE`D DO IT…[;-)

Posted by: Rob..NC at March 20, 2004 11:18 PM

McCain blurb comming up, but first:

The Massachusetts Senator, who offered no homage to the King during campaign stops in Tennessee, elaborated, “When I was younger, I could do the snarl, curl the lip, flip the collar up. I’d have my hair combed and get out there and gyrate.”
Kerry even concluded the rare Electra-filled flashback with an Elvis impression offering, “Thank you, thank you very, very much everybody.”
But, when an audience member suggested Kerry reenact the “gyration,” the New Englander pointed to the press and cautioned, “You see those people out there? I know better than to make a complete ass of myself.”

*In a conversation about the steroid hearings he is holding today, Sen. John McCain was asked by ABC News’ Charlie Gibson today on “Good Morning America” whether he would accept an offer to become John Kerry’s running mate. McCain Noted that it is “impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protection deficit hawk. . . . They would have to be taking steroids.”

When pressed by an amused Gibson, McCain said “I see no scenario — no scenario — no scenario — I see no scenario where that would happen.”

And when asked whether he would campaign against his “good friend” John Kerry, McCain said, “I have campaigned and will continue to campaign for the President of the United States. I think we ought to spend more time campaigning for the people we support rather than against them. This so far is the nastiest campaign so far that we have seen and the American people deserve a lot better than what they have gotten from the Democrats.”

Posted by: Fat Guy at March 21, 2004 02:00 AM

Chuck Hagel on ‘This Week” agrees with John McCain. Kerry would not be weak on defense.

Posted by: Anthony at March 21, 2004 10:58 AM

Chuck Hagel blames both sides. paraphrased “the American people deserve a lot better than what they have gotten from both sides.”

Posted by: Anthony at March 21, 2004 11:00 AM

See-> Anthony <—in action, first pic

Posted by: Fat Guy at March 22, 2004 10:06 AM

I don’t care what “he” said, thats what McCain said.

Kerry’s nothing but a liar, thats all he’s ever been.

He even lied about sleeping on the whitehouse lawn during his so called protests, he stayed in fancy hotels and ate fine food. then he came and put on his act.

Speaking of idiots, here what the left think.
report from yesterday’s “peace” march in New York City”

“Well, it was a tough day of counter protesting but we made it through with hardly a scratch! Some of the peace marchers tended toward violence and they did not like it one little bit that we crashed their whacked out party. Unfortunately, some in our group were attacked, actually a couple of times. I didn’t know that peace marchers would think to “put a bullet in your head”, but I guess that’s how uninformed I am about peace. If I didn’t think I might get stomped to death I would have suggested that the peace marcher join the Army! They need guys that want to put bullets in people’s heads.

At one point things got really pretty dicey as one of my fellow protest warriors was being choked right there in the middle of the street and the NYPD came in and rescued us! They corralled us into a bull pen sort of place and protected us from the peace marchers… Then, they assigned a scooter brigade to guard us while we expressed our right of free speech. My poor sainted husband, who I talked into coming with me was being shoved and screamed at by the ANSWER security squad (brown shirts) and he remarked that we have free speech in the U.S. to which the goon screamed in return “there is no fuckin free speech”. I think this would come as a surprise to the thousands of police officers that were assigned to this march in order for people to exercise their right to assembly and free speech. But then, maybe we are just confused.

While in the police bullpen one of the big wig officers came up to me and said under his breath “I can’t say this in public but we love you guys, we wish you would turn out more often”. I told him the problem was that we have jobs and therefore our time is somewhat limited.

Keep an eye on the website for forthcoming photos and video.
Protest warrior

Posted by: Fat Guy at March 22, 2004 10:20 AM

Update:
I was carrying the sign that said “Liberating Iraqi Children from Tyranny, It’s Co$ting Too Much”. The sign has a picture of three Iraqi girls on it. One of the peace marchers came up to me and asked me what my sign meant.
Me: Well, think about it a bit
Him: I have thought about it and I don’t understand it
Me: I am a feminist and I have a wish for the Iraqi girls in this photo. You support feminism, don’t you?
Him: Yes, absolutely
Me: Well yes, of course, my wish is that these girls have the freedom to be educated. You wish that all women on earth have the freedom to be educated, don’t you?
Him: Oh yes
Me: I also wish for these girls that they be given the power to control their lives. You support the notion of women being able to control their own lives, don’t you?
Him: Yes!
Me: I wish for these girls to become doctors or teachers or whatever it is that they want to do. You support that don’t you?
Him: Yes
Me: Well, that is what my sign is about
He seemed to go away happy!

UPDATE: Via the LGF comments section, Journaist ethics on display in San Francisco.
lets see if Anthony can spot whats wrong.

Posted by: Fat Guy at March 22, 2004 10:45 AM

I’m all for feminism myself, but I heard the Hijab has gotten quite a bit more popular since we invaded Iraq.

Posted by: jackdogistani at March 22, 2004 10:46 PM