OK, there is a little theory that I have been kicking around privately:
Just in case people think this former Swift Boat commander John O'Neill is a Republican - he has been a Democrat all his life, and supported John Edwards in the most recent nomination process within the Democrat party.
A Democrat who has a personal and real dislike (running back many years) for John Kerry. Just go to the Dick Cavett show videotape where Kerry and O'Neill had a face-off back about 1972 or so.
John O'Neill may still support Edwards on the top of the ticket.
You don't suppose that John O'Neill might be trying to get Kerry bumped off the ticket (a la Torricelli) at the last minute to put John Edwards on top, do you?
This is not without precedent. Remember Tom Eagleton.
I wouldn't care if O'Neill supported a Martian, as long as he knows the truth and the difference between good and evil.