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.
Want to me my editor?
From what I'm hearing from friends in Arizona, they are NOT happy with McCain and want him to change parties....I believe they are going to support someone else for Senator...but they didn't say who it was yet.....Just from a friends to friends...don't know anymore than that...
Well, Bush was happy to have the campaign support of a man who "hates" him. How do you figure that?
I guess if the media doesn't want to report the real news, they can just make some up. (like this)
"Guess it’s unlikely there will be a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign if McCain and Kerry team up in 2008"
Oh really? Says who?
Now, going Independent sounds more promising for McCain. He'll keep all that MSM propaganda going, until ... until, the Democrat nominee is chosen. All McCain has going for him is MSM propaganda, but he can't keep it. That MSM propaganda is designed to weaken and split the Republicans. McCain only gets that as long as he's Republican.
The MSM propaganda stops within two weeks of McCain becoming a Democrat or stops after the nomination of the Democrat candidate.
Bottom line, McCain goes no where politically. He's sold his soul to the MSM and he receive the wages of sin. Hell, who even gets mad at McCain anymore? He just doesn't matter.
There's an old saying in politics, notigar. "Politics makes strange bedfellows". I'd say that explains it pretty well.
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