Posted on 05/23/2004 2:33:44 PM PDT by RWR8189
Brilliant, and I've been wondering how long it'd be till someone pointed out how inane the idea of a Kerry/McCain ticket is. This article should give every sincere liberal the reasons to think twice about power at any cost.
Then there's the fact that McCain would have to run as a candidate of a party that has deliberately set-out to ash can his campaign finance reform scheme. He'd get smacked inthe face with that by every reporter.
This might be a plan for the dems if they get a McCain on the Ticket: just use him to get a liberal-gumby-like Kerry into office, then run the show in mainstream Rat fashion. Then, if/when McCain resigns, they already have the office.
It's a bunch of BS.
1. McCain likes being on camera (Sunday Talk shows, etc.) too much to shrink into the vast darkness of the VicePresidency.
2. If a Kerry-McCain ticket did happen, and did win, if Kerry died, the Presidency would become Republican. The Dems haven't even considered that.
It's BS. It ain't gonna happen.
She's been one of my favorite authorw for years. Brillian writer...oddly enough this afternoon, I was channel surfing, C-span was rerunign an AEI/Weekly Standard symposium on the Bush's and she was speaking to the forum. The has apparently worked very hard to overcome a bad stuttering problem, and to egt up in front of a large public forum like that is admirable...
Bullseye.
It just doesn't matter to them at all that McCain has unequivicably said he would not accept a nomination. He actually laughed at it, but that does not seems to phase these crazy lunatics.
I'd be very surprised if McCain did this, bc if he lost, he'd be totally ostracized from the Republican Party, and he would not hold much power in the Dem party.
I find it a bit disheartening that the Democrats would want a Republican running with their candidate. It doesn't say much for McCains Republican values.
I've joined the Emery fan club! BTTT
Some more "magic" thinking by the Dems about McCain being the VP candidate but it isn't going to happen. He wouldn't risk the Senate balance by resigning, and he won't ever give up some of his hard-line conservative views.
I can never in a million years imagine McCain at the Dem convention in Boston. A lot of the extreme anti-war left-wingers i.e Deaniacs would lynch him first because he's pro-war. He would never be acceptable to them as a VP candidate, and they hold great power at the convention. They would ensure that Kerry loses the election if he does something so radical as pick McCain as his VP candidate.
How would McCain feel about his boss skirting campaign finance laws?
Would he be ok wit dat?
"He is not left, right, or center so much as a devout contrarian, a flamboyant maverick, cut out by fate to butt heads with authority, never so happy as when giving the finger to those in charge......He has made a career out of lobbing grenades at the base of his party, with which he quite often agrees........Who else would go into Virginia and launch an attack on social conservatives? In a Republican Primary?"
This is an excellent analysis of McCain. She seems to have his number.
See my post 15. There is a term "does not play well with others."
Anyone who seriously considers this a possibility should be checked for drug dependency.
This whole idea is inane. Does anyone for one moment think that the dems are going to allow a tax cutting, pro-lifer onto the ticket?
The Kerry/McCain - Cancer/Cancerer ticket? Never happen.
I just think they want a real war hero on their ticket (humor)
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