McCain Rejects Kerry's V.P. Overture

NewsMax.com ^ | 6/11/04 | AP

[areafiftyone]

ROFLMAO - Do you know you beat me by 1 second?

[Phantom Lord]

Hey Rats. Look how low your party has sunk. It is a party without ideas. With no core values. And a candidate whose top qualification is that "hes not Bush." And that your party must seek out a REPUBLICAN for VP to improve your chances at the ballot box.

[sandpit]

Wow! CNN has this in bright red at the top of their page.

[Lunatic Fringe]

No Democrat wants to run with a loser.

And does anyone doubt that McCain would grab this in a second if he thought Kerry had a chance of winning?

[adam_az]

Kerry has asked McCain as recently as late last month to consider becoming his running mate, but the U.S. senator from Arizona said he was not interested, said a Democrat official who spoke on condition of anonymity because Kerry has insisted that his deliberations be kept private. A second official familiar with the conversations confirmed the account, and said the Arizonan made it clear he wouldn't change his mind.

Both officials said Kerry stopped short of offering McCain the job, sparing himself an outright rejection that would make his eventual running mate look like a second choice.

Kerry offered the Veep spot to McCain before he didn't offer it, sounds like! :D

[Brasil]

I heard McCain say that he spent ? years in a Viet Cong prison, alone in the dark in a small cell and fed scraps....and he doesn't want to repeat that experience.

[kattracks]

It's because of my speed typing.

Actually when I try to do speed typing it comes out looking like some foreign language.

[Dr Snide]

Regardless of how they spin it, whoever ends up being Kerry's VP (I'm thinking Uncle Fester myself) will now be the 2nd choice. And if Hillary continues to stay out, it means they are likely the 3rd choice. Which is ok because to most Dem. Kerry was the 2nd or 3rd choice so theres some kind of order to it all.

[kattracks]

Second choice of the second choice.

[dirtboy]

Republican Sen. John McCain has personally rejected John Kerry's overtures to join the Democrat presidential ticket and forge a bipartisan alliance against President Bush

McCain may have a bit of trouble keeping a plane in the air, but he's smart enough to stay off a sinking ship...

[Rokurota]

Kerry must not have much faith in his L.A. Times 7-point lead if he is still begging McCain.

[So Cal Rocket]

Although... wouldn't it have been fun if McCain agreed to run as VP, and when his nomination was offered on the floor of the Dem Convention, McCain comes on the stage and says:

"I do not accept the nomination... in fact, I hereby endorse President George W. Bush for a second term."

Oh, well, I can dream, can't i?

[MEG33]

AGAIN?...LOL

[Izzy Dunne]

said a Democrat official who spoke on condition of anonymity because Kerry has insisted that his deliberations be kept private.

let me open my Democrat dictionary..... hmmmm... OK.... here it is:

PRI-VATE adj. information publicized without attribution.

Hmmm. keeping something PRIVATE means keeping your NAME off the record, when you blab it to the press...

[Cuttnhorse]

McCain is a strong-willed conservative and Kerry a liberal from Massachusetts who would be loath to surrender presidential responsibilities that McCain might demand.

LOL!! That's as far as I got in the article. Give me a break!

[Froggie]

Doesn't it speak volumes that the "second-best" democrat in this election would be a Republican !!! What a bunch of losers !!!!

[doug9732]

The Republican McCain haters here and elsewhere will say bad things about John McCain no matter what he does. They seem determined to turn John McCain into the next Jim Jeffords; but McCain seems even more determined to live and die a Republican.

[PhiKapMom]

Kerry came in 3rd in Oklahoma -- looks like OK RATs were right!

[PhiKapMom]

You people that have come on here since the primary season started this year amaze me with trying to split this forum. Do you think we are that dumb not realize what is going on? Now if meandog had said what you said, I could understand but not someone that came on here this year.

A lot of us have been on here for years so your comments about Republican McCain haters carries no weight with those of us who were part of this forum when the McClones tried to take over for McCain.

I don't like McCain for his actions in the Senate along with his comments in recent years -- getting more liberal (CFR comes to mind) -- but I never thought he would run as Kerry's VP. No way would he give up his Commerce Committee Chair and get kicked out of the Republican Caucus.