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Any Guesses On Who Will Be John Kerry's Running Mate?
March 19, 2004 | Comte De Maistre

Posted on 03/19/2004 1:27:15 PM PST by ComtedeMaistre

I think Kerry will surprise everyone, with his choice of running mate. I am thinking of 4 possibilities.

One possibility may be Max Cleland. Cleland's advantages are that he served in Vietnam, and he is from the South. It will be portrayed as an all-hero ticket, with geographical balance. There is also the victimology issue. Democrats have had great success in portraying Cleland as having been smeared by the mean, ugly, nasty, cruel, hateful and sadistic Republicans, in his 2002 re-election effort. Nominating Cleland as his running mate, will help Kerry remind voters, especially soccer mums, how mean, ugly, nasty, cruel, hateful and sadistic the Republicans are.

The other possibility may be Sen. Robert Byrd, who would help Kerry carry West Virginia, which Democrats lost last time to President Bush.

Pat "Osama Mama" Murray of Washington State is another possibility, which may be done in the name of women's rights, and enable Kerry to match Mondale's gender equality move of 1984.

Kerry might also need an experienced and well-rounded candidate like Jerold Nadler of New York, who is, well....round.


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To: ComtedeMaistre
Any Guesses On Who Will Be John Kerry's Running Mate?

The Rat who pulls the shortest straw.

121 posted on 03/19/2004 2:30:49 PM PST by mombonn (Viva Bush/Cheney!)
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To: KantianBurke
He's not old enough. Read the Constitution.
122 posted on 03/19/2004 2:31:32 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: camle
Edwards.

Not likely.
Kerry isn't secure enough to chose someone better looking and more facile than he is. Edwards would be a media darling and make him look like a clown

Besides, Edwards won't be interested in second place on a losing ticket. I think he is planning on watching Kerry lose and then spending the next 4 years on the rubber chicken circuit raising money for other Dems and building a grass roots operation. Then in '08 he will try to beat Hitlery for the nomination.

So9

123 posted on 03/19/2004 2:34:11 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
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To: threat matrix
(depends on the interpretation of the VP clause)

No it doesn't. The requirements for VP are the same as for President.

124 posted on 03/19/2004 2:34:55 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: All
Hey..we have Vilsacks bags packed and toasted to his leaving Iowa!!
125 posted on 03/19/2004 2:36:12 PM PST by stillafreemind
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To: King Black Robe
That's why I think he might pick Harold Ford Jr.

Harold Ford won't be 35 by January 20, 2005.

126 posted on 03/19/2004 2:44:39 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
Fat Teddy. It's his only chance. If elected, he would have the second gunman from the grassy knol make him the next president of the USA; or as another choice, Algore. He has experience in the job. But, deep down I am afraid that McManiac might take the nod.
128 posted on 03/19/2004 3:11:37 PM PST by RetiredArmy (We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American Way! Toby Keith)
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To: GeekDejure
Heeheheheheeehee! Yes, you've nailed it! Teresa Heinz Kerry, the first African-American women VP candidate. She'll pull in the all the votes of the underrepresented hyper-rich. The second wife vote. The Arts & Croissant crowd, SOHO artistes and all Snob-Americans. A sure winner.
129 posted on 03/19/2004 3:25:56 PM PST by Jabba the Nutt
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To: RetiredArmy
But, deep down I am afraid that McManiac might take the nod.

The whole McCain flirtation is a Karl Rove operation.

1. McCain was paid off by having his pet issue (steroid abuse) put in the State of the Union speech.
No other way to explain its inclusion.

2. McCain is chairman of the Bush Camaign in Arizona.
If he were seriously considereing crossing over, he would have been bounced out of there before he could do any more harm.

3. No way his ego would fit into a VP slot.

4. He has far more power as a senior Senator than he would ever have as a VP.
a. The republican senate leaders would strip him of all comittee assignments if he accepted.
b. He knows Kerry is a loser.
c. He knows he is too old to succeed Kerry in '12.

5. No way Kerry would ever pick anyone that much more popular with the press than he is.

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After McCain spends a few months flirting with Kerry, the press and public are gonna be unhappy with whoever Kerry picks. They just won't measure up to old John.

That's the plan, to make the Kerry/? ticket start out being compared to the hypothetical Kerry/McCain ticket and looking sick.

So9

130 posted on 03/19/2004 3:34:22 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
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To: ComtedeMaistre
Pepe Le Pew...
131 posted on 03/19/2004 4:11:12 PM PST by DKNY
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To: Jabba the Nutt
.... Teresa Heinz Kerry....

Heh, heh. It would be amusing, but I can think of two things that disqualify her as a candidate. I don't think she's a natural born citizen and she and the Botox Kid are both from Massachusetts.

132 posted on 03/19/2004 4:24:36 PM PST by DeFault User
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Richardson is a well liked Governor without a lot of baggage

Setting aside his road trip with Lewinsky, Richardson was also in charge of the national labs when the Los Alamos "missing hard drives" caper was discovered. About a month prior to that, when national lab security (and Wen Ho Lee) became an issue, Richardson very publicly declared that he was on top of things and that there would not be any more lab incidents on his watch. Then the missing hard drives (that are supposed to be locked in a secure vault) turn up hidden behind a photo copier. This was all happening against the backdrop of the Los Alamos Forest fire.

-PJ

133 posted on 03/19/2004 4:32:37 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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To: stylin19a
Kerry's a Catholic (sort of). Unlikely that the Veep would be Catholic. Richardson's a Catholic (sort of) as is Pelosi, Kennedy, Gephardt (sort of, sort of, sort of).
134 posted on 03/19/2004 4:55:01 PM PST by choirboy
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To: King Black Robe
"That's why I think he might pick Harold Ford Jr."

Race aside, I don't see Mr. Ford as having sufficient maturity, to carry a "presidential" image.

He's smart, articulate and his day may come. Later.

He's a centrist, I've read.
135 posted on 03/19/2004 5:04:57 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: BenLurkin
A giant killer lesbian sasquatch?
136 posted on 03/19/2004 7:50:57 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: BenLurkin
A giant killer lesbian sasquatch?
137 posted on 03/19/2004 7:50:57 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: sheik yerbouty
The Butcher of Waco, herself.
138 posted on 03/19/2004 8:04:11 PM PST by BenLurkin (Socialism is slavery.)
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To: truth_seeker
Race aside, I don't see Mr. Ford as having sufficient maturity, to carry a "presidential" image.

Yes but he's a Democrat. The media will give him a free ride so all of that sort of stuff will not matter. They will be so busy blathering on about his being black, they won't have time for anything else. And there is no way the Republicans will risk criticizing him. The only problem I see is that he doesn't look black.

Clearly he's ambitious, because he ran against Pelosi.

139 posted on 03/20/2004 6:58:30 AM PST by King Black Robe (With freedom of religion and speech now abridged, it is time to go after the press.)
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To: leadpenny
It is one I worry about. It would get him LA and make Bush have to fight for Ark, and Tenn. I think the other states in the area are solid for Bush no matter the Dem VP nominee.
140 posted on 03/22/2004 6:47:49 AM PST by Fellow Traveler
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