[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.

[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.

[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.

[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 !!!!

[Puddleglum]

Just a little non-story repeating month-old news in order to get Reagan off the headlines before the weekend.

Look at it: it is not news. The story itself says it is repeating month-old news regurgitated by an unnamed source. This is just the AP publishing a fax from the Kerry campaign designed to get his li'l name back on TV before the Sunday talking head programs are taped.

[CFC__VRWC]

Well, that ought to shut the media up on McCain as Kerry's VP for about two weeks or so, or until the next time their poodle starts sliding in the polls, whichever comes first.

[Phlap]

This is a story put out to keep his name in the news and get some attention off of the Regan funeral. And the press is dumb or smart enough to run it.

[Bonaventure]

This is great. Now anyone Kerry picks looks like a second choice!

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

Run away! Run away! Run away! Run away! Run away! Run away! Run away!

[ambrose]

McCain doesn't want to associate himself with a loser.

[Dr Snide]

Anybody else think it was actually McCain who leaked the story because he hasn't had his name in the news for awhile and needs a little ego massage?