the corroded earl bin laden
Posted on 07/04/2004 7:48:33 AM PDT by Bonaventure
Over the last few weeks, Sen. Kerry has had many more face-to-face meetings with potential picks than the press has reported.
One such meeting, several well-informed sources say, took place last Thursday night.
Kerry was in his home in Georgetown, and at around 10:30 pm, the last reporter staking him out -- someone from ABC News -- appeared to leave for the night.
Our sources say that Kerry and his Secret Service agents then went the very short distance to the nearby home of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Albright is a supporter of Kerry and has her office now in the same office building in Washington as the Kerry campaign.
At Albright's house late Thursday night, Kerry had a meeting with just a small group of people -- one of whom, our sources say, seemed to be the person Kerry at that moment planned to pick as his running mate.
Although Kerry said as recently as yesterday that he has not made a decision, our sources believe that this meeting might have served as the final face-to-face session the future running mates will have before announcement day, which could be as soon as this Tuesday.
Of the three potential picks whose advisers have confirmed have handed over reams of background information and believe themselves to be still in the running, there's only one we think was in DC that night -- Dick Gephardt. Tom Vilsack's staff says he was in Iowa and John Edwards, like many great Americans, was at Disney World with his family.
Other options -- Senator Joseph Biden, former Defense Secretary Bill Cohen, well, we are still checking to pin down where they were on Thursday night.
Of course, Senator Kerry could have changed whatever decision he might have made since last Thursday, and it is possible he has sent mixed signals (purposefully or not) to his advisers.
The Kerry campaign had no comment on this.
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Misdirection, I'd say. He swings through Iowa (Vilsak)....will be in Boston on the 5th (Edwards), and plans to be in New York on the 6th (Hillary).
Kerry has certainly shown himself to be vacillating and indecisive in this process. Edwards vs. Gephardt vs. Vilsack is a pretty "ho hum" decision. (My guess is that Hillary doesn't really want the job and would rather run in 2008.) Also, Kerry's interest in McCain as VP should never have become public knowledge.
Could very well be. I don't think kerry's natural disdain for common people would let him partner with a pretty southern boy. Even though is edwards is liberal enough, slimey enough, and wealthy enough to be a democrat politician, he did, after all have to earn his money rather than marry it. Then too, he just might embarass the proper ruling class by having had some past positive experience with grits.
I'm sure her staff made sure she had a big picture window so she can occupy herself all day counting license plates.
Admin: Shouldn't this go in Breaking News. The more I think about it, the more legit and unassailable it seems. ABC's "The Note" crew is composed of typical media elite eleftist types that are plugged-in to the Kerry campaign. I believe this will prove out to have been the breaking story on the VP pick (and oh, my, what a stinker of a pick it is...)
IMO, Kerrys best pick would be Lieberman. That would provide a "balance" of a Liberal and a Moderate.
However, I think he will pick Dip Gekhart in the mistaken belief that this would gain him Missouri. Dip has no great popularity here (statewide) - only in St. Louis area. I strongly doubt MO electoral votes would go to a Kerry/Gekhart ticket.
Regards, Ivan
Asking the Clintons for advice on how not to incessantly lie, isn't that a little like getting diet advice from Michael Moore?
Gee, al Querry might pick Mad Halfbright as his Veep.
That would be a wonder combo!
Gee, al Querry might pick Mad Halfbright as his Veep.
That would be a wonder combo!
Dang it! You beat me to it. This is better than "Fritz and Tits"!
I think Kerry has given up on the southern vote. His polls aren't that great in any southern state. From the union strength of Gephardt...he would ensure every mid-west states and the northeast. This is a game of electoral votes, and we need to realize this. If Kerry can take New York, California, and several pro-union states...he will have 40 percent of the electoral vote. After that, he needs to find 4 borderline states, to get his 51 percent.
He helps with Big Labor too...they've warned Kerry thst they'll stay on the sidelines if he doesn't pick Gephart.
If it isnt the beast...then the Clinton's will probably spring a big surprise to torpedo that
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the corroded earl bin laden
Kerry and Gephardt - Dull and Duller
I fully agree with this analysis. I've heard that Kerry's staff strongly supports Edwards (from their polling) but that Kerry wants Gephardt. This will be one more example of how small and inneffective Kerry's brain-trust is. It usually is a "committee of one." I don't think that Kerry trusts anyone else very much and makes an awful lot of tactical, even strategic decisions, like this one, by instinct.
By contrast, look at how many tactical coups have been pulled off by the Bush team; the element of surprise, and the decisiveness. For instance, Thanksgiving in Bahgdad, staging the Iraq handover two days early, the success of the G-8 summit here, the new UN resolution. Also, we have the audacious $80 million in early advertising to keep Kerry from reinventing himself, and the 24-hour response ad to Kerry's book which he represented as an outline for the WOT.
Now think of a single clever thing that Kerry's done. He got Ter-ay-zah to give him half of her Boston mansion so that he could mortgage half of it to keep his hopes alive in Iowa. In hindsight, a very smart, decisive (or desperate) move. Now he has to repay it with donations before his Convention or he's stuck with it. Even Ter-ay-zah can't repay it for him (illegal campaign contribution), and the interest alone is more than his Senate salary--which he's drawing but not earning.
Bush is a consummate executive with an excellent team working with him. Kerry is an arrogant loner, who had very few friends in the Senate. He has no executive experience, and the Bush team will run circles around him.
Earlier, unidentified union sources said that Gephardt was a done deal. Could it be true?
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No way will it be Gephardt. They don't need him to rope in the union vote. Dems will opt for younger and flashier such as the trial lawyer John Edwards or some such. If they want older it'll be Sam Nunn for the boost in national security credentials.
Point of trivia. Dick Gephardt and Dick Cheney were born less than a day apart, both in the midwest.
The article doesn't mention Hillary.
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