Posted on 06/12/2004 5:46:24 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
Vilsack gaining support for V.P. nominee
The leader of the powerful Democratic Leadership Council group calls him the best choice.
Bill Clinton was the poster boy for the DLC. He knows Vilsack is dead weight and that is why his cohorts are touting him. Must keep the pathway clear for HRC.
On Fox and Friends this morning, they are harping on McCain-Kerry.
Supposedly, an article in the NYTimes says Kerry asked McCain 'unofficially' 7 times to be his VP nominee and McCain declined. [What part of 'no' is so difficult for Kerry to understand?]
Fox and Friends is running a phone in: Should McCain be Kerry's VP? [What part of 'no' is so difficult for the media to understand? Move on, media. Geezzz. You are beating this dead horse as much as Abu prison.]
Passing over Edwards would definitely weaken the ticket in the South.
Vilsack is not very popular in Iowa.
I can't believe the ink the Register is wasting on Vilsack. I think he's rated only above former governer Gray Davis and just as popular.
Heck of a pickle. Crisp and tasty.
Can't wait to see him debate Cheney.
The Dems must be in panic mode if they are passing over every democrat to steal a guy from the other team.
On a side note, a friend at work with a very, very, liberal wife said she can't vote for Kerry. For some reason she can't stand the thought of Kerry in office. Very odd because she seem to worshop every word the Clinton's and algore utter. I wonder if this year there will be a silent under current of abstaining for the dems.
The leader of the powerful Democratic Leadership Council group calls him the best choice.Formerly powerful DLC.
Yeah, their campaign slogan could be ketchup always goes with pickles.
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He's not even popular with state employees. All show and no go.
Not only does Vile-sack make Terry Branstad look like an action hero, it took Tommy the Teacher's Pet only one term to put Iowa into a nose dive from which it may never recover. Good grief, in a land where public education is the state golden calf, he couldn't even keep his hometown school bus company open.
Note to Iowa GOP: next election for governor, abandon the polite turn-taking method and try to run a candidate who is neither a businessman with ethical baggage nor a naif who is unable to control his outbursts. For crying out loud, the party could set up a roadblock on Highway 14 near Fern at three in the morning and within the hour you'd round up a half-dozen people who were more electable. The 'rats here in the Hawkeye State are turning increasingly to unloveable caricatures- don't follow suit.
F'N / BALLSACK 2004!
I think it's funny that the Kerry people are, to use Bill Buckley's phrase, "vetting" potential Kerry running mates. They're trying to ensure, if that is possible, they didn't do anything embarrasing like throw military decorations over fences. Such behavior, the Kerry ppl reason, would turn off voters.
I don't know anything about Vilsack, never heard of him. Is he a "moderate" candidate, or the typical "never saw a tax he didn't like" run of the mill democrat?
John Edwards has Dan Quayle's looks without his depth. Kerry needs a Southerner on the ticket, preferably a Floridian. Janet Reno is available.
Imagine how the media would chortle if George W. Bush had to go outside the Republican Party to find a running mate.
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