It's Gephardt !

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[KQQL]

It's Gephardt

Just got some scuttlebutt, top Gephardt aide Joyce Aboussie has been sent a private plane to join Dick Gephardt for....one can only assume the announcement that Dick Gephardt will be the next Vice President Nominee for the Democratic Party.

UPDATE: If Aboussie is being flown out and ordering staff to be ready for a change, it's hard to imagine that it is anything, but gearing up for an announcement that he is the VP nominee. He and Aboussie are incredibly close and she is his right hand. Unless this is a bit of disinformation, this is the real deal.

[Kackikat]

ROFL..did he really??

Say what kind of SLOGAN could be get from Kerry-Gephart?
or Kerry-Edwards. What about Kerry-Clinton, or John-Hillar...endless possibilities.

Sore-Loserman was a gem in last election....How do we top that. Let's run a thread contest for best Slogan as soon as the VP running mate is chosen, is that possible??

[Petronski]

LOL. Headline:

Qerry Likes Dick, Hates Bush

[Glenn]

The date at the site says this was posted 7/4. It's bogus.

[NeoCaveman]

I live in St. Louis. Kerry just lost the election.

Cool.

[KQQL]

Pic src: http://www.dems.us/images

[Kackikat]

Don't forget they will be singing Kumbaya...or something like that.

[Delphinium]

great, he is a super creep.

[Cyclops08]

Can America really be excited about a guy WITH NO EYEBROWS?

[OpusatFR]

You might be right. On the other hand, did he say he wrote it? ( ;

[HighWheeler]

Hahahahahahahhh!

[Torie]

Maybe Kerry wanted to pick someone who no one will question is competent for the job, and can hold his own against Cheney. I don't think Edwards fits that bill, and I don't think Edwards' wears well over time. We shall see. Conventional wisdom is that it will be either Edwards or Gephardt, who have been tested in the limelight, and I agree with the conventional wisdom. But I don't think Kerry likes Edwards much.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

In related news the drug maker Sanofi, the maker of the Insomnia drug ambien watched it shares plummet after the news.

[johnb838]

In a debate, that voice (of Big Time's) that sounds dry to a lot of people will sound like the voice of calm reason compared with Yeeeee-Hah! When I hear Edwards talk all I can think of is Yaaaah-hooo, Mountain Dew!

[Torie]

By the way, you are right not to believe it yet. But if Kerry is trying to deflect and confuse, he is being too clever by half.

[normy]

I will stick to my guns. Dean is the best pick for Kerry.

makes him look Presidential.

Bring in the psyco Nader votes

Washington outsider.

I also think Kerry is arrogant enough to think he just needs to steal half of the Nader votes to win.

Dean is the best choice for a losing ticket. Shakes it up, gets people talking, gets the base fired up. Yes I have convinced myself he will pick Dean.

[nathanbedford]

Right, Gebhardt is the right choice for Kerry. I was as I predicted some months ago on these threads because it fits his two coasts and Lakes strategy. Gebhardt will give him more help than any other dem in Ohio, likely the most important state in this election. He will not inspire but he will not make any mistakes either. He will be able to make a fair showing against Cheney in the debate without any gaffs.

The fact that Gebhardt is not charismatic, and probably cannot actually deliver any state including Ohio, means that Kerry is feeling pretty confident about now, and with good cause considering Bush's unfavorables, or he would have chosen The Breck Girl to try to change the odds- a ploy that seldom works.

A good solid defensive play which does not change the race much but, of course, Kerry will now get a bounce as the media deifies Gebhardt.

[Petronski]

Can America really be excited about a guy WITH NO EYEBROWS?

Of course they can.
My finger lights up. Folks love that.

[leadpenny]

Gephardt?

This is great! He is a complete turn-off!
He's is more condescending than either Hillary or Algore.

[Petronski]

When I hear Edwards talk all I can think of is Yaaaah-hooo, Mountain Dew!

Just dayum! LOL

[djf]

Every time I see him, he just drones on and on about the homeless, the single moms, all those poor old folks who can't afford their pills, etc, etc, etc, etc.

Same old spiel. Same old dried up, washed out rhetoric.

The guy's a loser. He ought to just quietly go away and try to save whatever little dignity he ever had.