[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Version 2

[hopespringseternal]

What a whore.

[Toonces T. Cat]

Personally, I would love to see this happen! McLame is the ULTIMATE loose cannon. He would go out of control and sink Kerry's campaign faster than a scalded dog...:-)

-Toonces

[Semper Paratus]

McCain being a heart beat away from anything besides retirement scares me.

[My Favorite Headache]

Worthless...absolutely worthless

[Eva]

McCain stated on Hannity's show that Kerry's anti-war campaign was used to taunt him while he was imprisoned at the Hanoi Hilton. (I'm not sure that it was Hannity's show, but I think it was). I'm sure that the tape is available. That replay should kill this talk very quickly and it would kill two birds with one stone.

[Helms]

Senatorial Media Creature (and there are some others).

"How does it feel" (Maria Shiver to McCain).

[DM1]

MCCAIN was just in NH campaigning for Bush not too long ago
what an ego

[marron]

Not often you get to knock two of these guys out of the park in one go.

Seriously, this would be a challenge for Bush. At least on paper, Kerry holds the Democratic base, McCain brings over his McCainiacs, which is enough to tip the balance. And he only has to bring over, what, 538 votes to take it... ?

If Bush holds firm, though, and has a little good news between now and the end, and most especially if he has been sandbagging a little good news to pull out at the right time, he can win and finish both of these guys. McCain has proven himself to be a problematic figure politically, his campaign finance bill has been an assault on the first ammendment, and has only served to make campaign money harder to track. Hardly something to be proud of.

And at least some people are going to be offended by McCain's Sunday punch attack on Bush coming as it does from among his own. This is not the first case of a political enemy that Bush has treated with the utmost of respect replying with venom, and it isn't even the first time with McCain.

It isn't hard to imagine a ticket with two gargantuan egos like these coming apart at the rivets, in any case. McCain doesn't handle pressure well, and he doesn't handle being second banana well either. The partnership would not hold long, the question would be whether it could hold long enough to get them through to November.

[bwteim]

Hate to spoil a party, but Sen. Bob Graham-FL already has that slot.... /sarcasm

[SF Republican]

Navy - they never leave their buddies behind

[Viking2002]

McCain doesn't stand a chance. After going out and stumping for Bush, it'll look like an attempt at petty revenge for the pasting he got in the 2000 primaries. It'll also effectively kill any Senate power and clout that he currently wields. If McCain has any sense, he'd better start doing damage control immediately.

[plain talk]

McCain is not a serious VP choice. But this is another ploy to implant a seed in some independents mind to think Kerry = independent.

[kevao]

That McCain would even entertain the idea of running with a Liberal Democrat to unseat a Republican president, should FINISH his career in the Republican Party.

Beware the RINOs.

[clintonh8r]

Wow...two Manchurian candidates on the same ticket.

[DustyMoment]

Hey, this could work!!

Then we would have a PAIR of flip-flops on the ticket!!

[onedoug]

Kerry's war crimes and murder, full circle.

[SolutionsOnly]

How could ex-POW McCain even stand on the same stage with Vietnam Vets against the war radical Kerry? Amazing.

[truthandlife]

Anything to get his name in the limelight again

[smonk]

never happen. mccain violates the first rule of "2nd
position guys" by being better, smarter, and generally
more attractive that the apparent "1st position guy";
kerry would suffer by comparison.

perhaps mccain simply feels honor bound not to dismiss
the possibility out of hand due to a sense of camaraderie
with his fellow viet nam veteran.

[lilylangtree]

Not surprising! McCain is demoncRAT wearing Pub clothing. See below for an excerpt:

On Sunday's This Week, ABC's George Stephanopoulos
pleaded for John McCain to accept any potential offer to be John Kerry's running mate, asserting that for "a lot of Democrats," that would be "the dream ticked." Stephanopoulos appealed McCain's rejection of the idea: "So there's no chance you'll re-consider?" Stephanopoulos then tried to convince McCain he doesn't really share Bush's views, laying out some areas where they disagree before demanding: "Why are you supporting President Bush?" Recalling the 2000 primary campaign battle between McCain and Bush, Stephanopoulos inquired: "Does John Kerry have to worry that the Bush team will do to him what they did to you in South Carolina?"

During the March 7 appearance in studio by McCain,
Stephanopoulos played a clip from his November 28, 2002 show in which he asked McCain about being Kerry's running mate. He rejected the idea then and did so again: "I do not intend to leave the Republican Party." Stephanopoulos pleaded: "But a lot of Democrats think this is the dream ticked. So there's no chance you'll re-consider?" McCain: "I cannot envision the scenario, George, as I say it's flattering but no [mumble], leave the Republican Party."

Stephanopoulos: "Okay, I think that's, you're not quite being General Sherman, but I think you're clear on it. Let me switch over to the campaign. When I look through your record, you disagree with President Bush on tax cuts, you disagreed with him on the prescription drug coverage, you disagree with him on the energy bill, you disagree with him on global warming, many other issues. Why are you supporting President Bush?"

McCain explained that he agrees with Bush on many issues and
that Bush "led with moral clarity and strength" after 9/11.

Stephanopoulos moved on to the media-created controversy over the Bush TV ads, asking McCain if it was "appropriate" to use images from Ground Zero in the ad.

Next, Stephanopoulos painted Kerry as the next possible victim of the Bush attack machine: "It was a tough campaign. Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina said it was the nastiest campaign he had ever seen. You refused to say that President Bush ran an honorable campaign and called it 'savagery." Does John Kerry have to worry that the Bush team will do to him what they did to you in
South Carolina?"

McCain noted that he and Bush now have a cordial relationship, and while it will be a nasty campaign, that's "not contained to either side."

As recounted in the March 4 CyberAlert, on the March 3 Good
Morning America's ABC's Claire Shipman gushed that the idea of McCain running with Kerry represents "everybody's wishful thinking that he might switch parties and join his Vietnam buddy." See: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040304.asp#3