He doesn't like to reminded that he begged Kerry to let him be his VP.
Why would you post such a provably false assertion as fact on such a well read blog? Just curious...
Begged to be VP?
Well documented, think was in a Washington Post, years back, where it was clearly reported a call came late at night to McCain from a desperate (my description) Kerry, and McCain politely said it was not going to happen. "A bipartisan ticket would not work and could weaken the presidency," was how it was addressed. Senator McCain and Kerry were amicable, good friends, especially when McCain stood up for Kerry against, what he felt were baseless attacks. In fact the conversations were between Kerry and McCain one on one, with no one else present; so I guess you can believe whom you want to believe under those circumstances. McCain was anti-abortion and Kerry was not. One diverse difference in opinion. Some Dems speculated the aforementioned ticket would chase some of the libs over to Nader. Kerry's thinking was that this could definitely beat the Bush-Cheney ticket, which it might have well done. The Dems would have done anything to beat another term of the old Administration. Kerry had raised lots of money and donors do not like to LOSE! But never happened. Old "supposes" die hard; and were definitely DOA.
Down the road, it was revealed that even Teddy Kennedy had summoned McCain into his office on this political think-tank issue; and again McCain says, can't happen. Present election: Kennedy endorsed Obama, story of the VP request was recircled back into the media. Just political tales for the media to chew on. Keeps them from getting to important issues that really mean something to Americans.
Have said many times am not a McCainite; but this stuff gets real old when rehashed over and over--I don't blame McCain for getting annoyed at the ignorance of some of the media.
FTD