Kerry's running mate, an argument for Mcain

[sidwill]

I have always been ABB.

I think its so important to get Bush out that I am willing to compromise on a long laundry list of issues. Why?

I see GWB AND the current leaders of the Republican party as people who threaten the very institutions of our democracy. All you have to do is listen to their rhetoric and look at their actions:

They attack "activist" judges and are attempting to force rules that would lessen the power of the judiciary branch.

They want to cut taxes and "shrink" government, thus concentrating more power in the hands of the corporate oligarchy and limiting the people's say in how we run this country. At some point in the near future I fear that this concentration of power will be so entrenched an irreversible that we will never get our democracy back.

They have changed long standing procedural rules in Congress in an attempt to concentrate even more power in their own hands.

In 2000 they subverted the very foundation of our democracy by tampering with the Florida election first via the "voter scrub" then during the recount process and finally by using the Supreme Court to forever tarnish the equal protection clause by reinterpreting it to mean equal protection for Republicans only.


This brings me to Mcain, I disagree with him on many issues primarily the war in Iraq but, I respect him immensely for attempting to preserve and protect the very institutions that Bushco finds inconvenient.

He has championed a variety of causes that are near and dear to my heart: Campaign finance reform, he supported and continues to support the work being done by the 9/11 commision, and just yesterday he started openly questioning the role of the Iraq Intelligence commitee saying that the comitee should have the power to supoena administration officials and investigate how pre war intelligence may have been twisted by Bush to support a war.

All this aside the real reason I want Mcain is purely Machiavellian in nature. I believe that Mcain strongly appeals to Independents, libertarians and moderate Repubs, he would act as a walking, talking, human Republican wedge fracturing the Moderate wing of the Republican party and appealing strongly to swing voters regardless of their leanings. He also adds more Military gravitas to the ticket further undermining wjat Bush so much wants to run on.

Thoughts.

[KoKo]

1. McCain is a Republican. n/t

[madmax]

2. McCain will not run with Kerry n/t

[NicoleM]

3. Some winger

will assassinate Kerry as soon as he's sworn in.

[GOPisEvil]

4. Please...we need DEMOCRATS on the ticket.

McCain, for all his positive points, is a REPUBLICAN - one actively campaigning for Bush*. You think THAT wouldn't be held against him?

Goodness.

Senators Edwards or Bob Graham would be much better choices.

[libertad]

5. Yeah, maybe he appeals to them, but he is against everything we

are working for. Have you checked out his voting record? He is 100% republican.

[Rowdyboy]

6. Wes Clark appeals to those same swing voters

and is a Democrat. I can see no reason to go outside the party. Only Abraham Lincoln, DURING the civil war, felt it necessary to take such a drastic step.

Also, as an earlier poster said, McCain would turn him down. Though a maverick, he is basically a conservative Republican and would be a horrible mismatch for a liberal Democrat.

[bluedog]

7. no no no

I don't trust McCain as far as I can see him......bush trashed him and his family and now McCain is out stumping for him.talk about ass kisser....

[rucky]

8. You can count me out n/t

[nannygoat]

9. McCain may say something against the Chimp

one day but the next day he'll turn around and kiss Chimpy's a** big time. Unfortunately, I think he's a typical repuke--one who puts his party before his country.

There are plenty of wonderful Dems who could and should be VP.

Edited for freeper-like typo...

[Bandit]

10. McCain is going to be Bush*'s running mate

He is not worthy of being on a Democratic ticket.

[Minstrel Boy]

11. And while you're at it, why not replace Kerry with Jeb?

That ought to appeal to independents and Republicans looking for an alternative.

Don't worry about the ultra leftists. What are they gonna do about it? Cry and stomp their feet? Bush/McCain is electable!

[Ganja Ninja]

12. Screw McCain and any other Republican.

Why is it that people feel the need to try and appear bipartisan. That's why the Democrats always look weak. We're Democrats and Liberals and we don't have to apologize for it. Does Bush try to be bipartisan? Hell no!

I vote Democratic because I want a Democrat to stand up for what I believe in. I don't want to meet them halfway. We've been screwed over for the last four years. I want some payback. Like Dick Cheney said, It's our turn.

[readmylips]

13. McCaine is already taken...

by boosh and so is nader.

[onecitizen]

14. No........

McCain is a Repuke through and through. I'm always surprised when I hear people who think this guy should be a Dem. He isn't, he never could or would be. Just because once in a while he decides to mess with bush, it's not because he thinks Dems are right. It's because he thinks he's right.

[jrthin]

15. Hell no!

I despise McCain.

[sidwill]

16. Ouch!

I guess my idea didn't go over too well.

Oh well, please keep in mind that all I want is to see the Chimp out of the White House. Period.

My other VP selections in descending order would be:

Edwards
Clark


Thats it.