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May 27, 2004
Kerry | One Source Of Legs: Dick Gephardt

I wondered earlier about where the legs for the Kerry / McCain ticket rumor are coming from … the New York Times offers one source: Dick Gephardt.

Representative Richard A. Gephardt, the Missouri Democrat who has often been mentioned as a running mate for Senator John Kerry, is talking kindly about another choice: Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona.

Asked after a speech in California on Monday what he thought of Mr. McCain’s potential for the Democratic presidential ticket, Mr. Gephardt described him as a “very attractive figure in American politics” who “would be accepted by the Democratic Party,” according to CNN.

Mr. McCain is “someone a lot of Democrats could get interested in,” Mr. Gephardt said at the Leon Panetta Center in Monterrey.



Posted by Alan at May 27, 2004 09:50 AM | TrackBack
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Sure, as if the Dem’s would be willing to accept a pro-lifer as a VP choice. This is just silly, on so many levels.

Posted by: FH at May 27, 2004 03:42 PM

why would McCain sign up to be the odd man out in a Kerry admin?? He would be a lone voice in the darkness. What does it say that the dems need a republican on the ticket to win?

Posted by: chris at May 28, 2004 12:05 PM

Anyone Gephardt recommends automatically goes to the sh-t can. Being endorsed by Gephardt is the kiss of death for any Republican. I question the reality of McCain being considered a Republican.

Although with McCain as VP, if Kerry were elected, upon his assissination, a so called Repub would be back in the driver’s seat.

Posted by: Jeff B at May 28, 2004 12:46 PM

I’m still waiting for Hillarious Clinton to step in at the last minute. As a VP or a presidential candidate.

Posted by: Jeff B at May 28, 2004 12:51 PM

It just goes to show you how utterly obsessed Democrats are with power that some would seriously consider naming a Republican running mate for their nominee. Why? To trick the electorate into giving them their all-important Power.

Contrast that with McCain, who genuinely wanted to be elected President in 2000, insisting in no uncertain terms that he would never even consider a spot on a Democratic ticket.

They’re know as “principles” folks…

:jackson

Posted by: jackson zed at May 28, 2004 04:45 PM

And even primciples have a limit.

Posted by: Eugene at May 29, 2004 03:35 PM

Jeez! I’ll defend everyone’s right to speak their mind but CP would certainly would be a more interesting and relevant blog site if the goose-stepping, frothing at the mouth, unquestioning right wingers who tend to dominate the Comments section would allow a little objectivity and critical thinking into their lives.

The Dems would love to have McCain on the ticket because they want to increase their odds of winning and have a powerful, philosophically consistent (aside from the abortion thing) and pragmatic one/two team at the top. If McCain where wildly popular (as he is now) but was a Neocon then he would not be sought after by the Dems. McCain is about the least Republican Republican in DC which makes him palatable to many in both parties as well as Independents. A Kerry/McCain ticket would be very attractive to the moderate Right wingers and the conservative left wingers. Understand? It’s a moderate ticket designed to win and rule w/ effectiveness and sanity.

My advice for the lunatic fringers on both sides is to try to be an American first and a partisan barnacle second. The sad thing is that the looney fringers tend to vote and the more sane moderates don’t. I guess at the end of the day America gets what it deserves. I’ll say one thing for the Bush administration, it has pushed a large majority of moderates into one or the other camps. I suspect that we’ll have the biggest voter turnout in a generation come November.

Now if we can just convince Nader to go away…

Posted by: Stork at May 29, 2004 04:21 PM

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