Posted on 08/11/2005 5:59:11 AM PDT by RWR8189
During the last presidential campaign, there was much talk about a Kerry-McCain ticket after Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) sounded out Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) about joining him on a bipartisan fusion ticket.
McCain obviously turned Kerry down, but as the 2008 election approaches there are signs that an equally intriguing McCain-Kerry ticket could be in the works. If such an improbable thing comes to pass, its genesis might well be traced back to a one-on-one breakfast meeting July 27, when the two decorated Vietnam veterans huddled for more than an hour at La Colline restaurant on Capitol Hill.
Fellow diners said the pair was engaged in earnest conversation throughout the breakfast, although Kerry spokesman David Wade characterized it simply as a chat between two “longtime friends.”
The meeting came in the wake of McCain’s increasingly critical stance on the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on terrorism, particularly the treatment of suspected terrorists at prison camps in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. McCain, who spent years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam’s Hanoi Hilton, led the fight just before the August recess to add an amendment to the defense appropriations bill prohibiting harsh treatment of detainees held in American custody, despite personal lobbying by Vice President Cheney.
McCain rebutted the administration’s argument that the legislation would tie its hands in dealing with people who are not POWs but “terrorists” by declaring on the Senate floor that it’s not “about who they are. It’s about who we are.”
Guess it’s unlikely there will be a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign if McCain and Kerry team up in 2008.
Kerry as the #2 man? Tereza wouldn't stand for it.
Kerry as 2nd fiddle ? Tereza wont stand for it.
just damn......
Could McCain be described as a fair weathered adversary and a foul weathered ally?
(BTW, I don't believe McCain will jump. Ever)
Good. It will allow me to vote against both of them.
I'm sorry, but McCain's face reminds everyone that he had cancer. (and it could return)
I don't think he's electable.
Slow news day on the Hill -- what are they smoking up there?
Much as I don't like McCain he will never jump to become a Democrat -- someone is blowing smoke on this one to keep Kerry's hopes alive.
Wanna bet?
A McCain / Kerry ticket would loose. Too many Republicans would not support such a ticket.
I have no doubt that McCain will run. I just don't see him as being stupid enough to tie himself with a loser like Kerry.
Run, McKeating...er, McCain, run!
As much as wish McCain would just go back to Arizona and stay there he is not stupid and will never pick John 'loser' Kerry to be his running mate.
Bring it on! McCrazy is already swimming up stream anyway so why not join another loser.
The Brits have it right when they refer to August as "The Silly Season"
Look for McCain-Rice to defeat the Clinton-[pickanyloser] ticket.
John McCain WANTS it r e a l bad.
Dad used to say all the time..."Never say never..."
As time goes on....I've come to think that McCain isn't really all that bright.
Besides that...whose to say those two don't mutate into some sort of out there third party...and call themselves the "Patriot Party" ,the "Vet's for Vision" Party...or the "Dos Amigo's" Party.....LOL!!
They are both dream-weaving wanna-be's....IMO
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