Posted on 06/17/2004 11:27:19 PM PDT by RWR8189
John F. Kerry has been phoning friends at all hours and reviewing vice-presidential choices dating to 1932 as the Democratic candidate nears what many consider the biggest -- and most telling -- decision of his general-election campaign, according to Democrats inside and outside the campaign.
While Kerry is tight-lipped about the pick, these Democrats said the process is revealing much about how the Massachusetts senator views his strengths, his leadership style and the role of a vice president. Kerry has privately expressed confidence that voters see him as sufficiently strong on national security, they say, but wonders whether he needs a moderate or conservative Democrat on the ticket to improve his centrist credentials. Still, Kerry is skeptical a running mate can make a decisive difference in the election's outcome, these sources said, and is much more concerned with finding a ready-made president, though one who will not try to steal the show.
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Too bad it will be too late in the year for Macy's to feature an entire Thanksgiving Day parade with just JFK's trial baloons of running mates. They would really make a lovely parade.
hmmmm, and just how will Kerry 'splain away the fact that his running mate did not serve in Vietnam?
What's not being reported is that Kerry is considering the "same" choices! Dead (or dying) guys on ballots have worked well for Democrats as of recent.
NO matter who he picks, there will be explaining to do...
LOL! Good one.
Thanks, my friend :-) And G'evening to ya!
Worse, how will Kerry explain his VP choice supports the war in Iraq??
Hope he chooses Hillary. That way, we can kill two birds with one election.
Was Kerry ever in Nam? ;-)
If he wants someone who could really add some life to the ticket, he could always turn to . . . Walter Mondale. /Sarcasm.
Rumor has it ;-)
Edwards could point out that he actually voted for the war, before he came out against it...;-)
LOL
Now that the Dems have "discovered" Reagan and have all become "Reagan Democrats", Mondale could always use Reagan's "youth and inexperience" quote against Cheney.
LOL!!
This guy is the walking dead and I think he at least half knows it already.
I would ask the same question of John Kerry.
And the other half disagrees -- it's all part of Ketchup boy's nuancey ways ;-)
Oh please, please. I really hope that Kerry does pick Edwards as his running mate.
He won't make much of an impact in the south outside of the Carolinas (if he even makes a difference there), Edwards' background as a trial attorney is an opposition research dream, and they'll have to hose the studio down after Dick Cheney gets done with him in the debates.
That's why Kerry has waited so long. He has to decide which group of lefties he'll PO by his choice that will hurt him the least.
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