My prediction: If Kerry picks McCain ...

[Jeebo]

... there will be an assassination attempt on Kerry within six months of taking office. They (and I'll leave it to you to figure out who "they" are) will start thinking, "Vice President McCain is a Republican, so if Kerry dies, WE get the White House back." Will that temptation will be more than they can resist? Is this what happened in March 1981, just a few weeks after George Herbert Walker Bush became vice president? And wasn't there a meeting somewhere WHILE THE REAGAN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT WAS TAKING PLACE between a relative of Mark Hinckley and a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush? When the Bush Crime Family realized that Ronald Reagan was the ONLY THING in the way of one of THEM becoming president, was that temptation more than they could resist?

Ron

P.S. -- I'm not a big conspiracy theory person, but I believe Paul Wellstone's death was a political assassination. It was just TOO goddamn convenient for Republicans for me to be able to believe that it was just an "accident."

[WI_DEM]

1. luckily we don't have to worry about it

because there is no way that Kerry will pick McCain--he is too conservative of a republican.

[Justice]

2. Agreed

[Tempest]

4. And McCain has flat-out said no

n/t

[Kikosexy2]

10. Sounds logical...

but I see the following Oct. surprises as follows:
Osama captured.
Another terrorist attack in the U.S.
More cheating on election day.
or
An assassination attempt on the Chimp--why? so, the public can be swayed by sympathy for Chimpie boy that elections will have to be cancelled or postponed.

Or all of the above.

take your pick.

[BJ]

3. If Kerry picks McCain Ralph Nader'll be saying:

"I told you so! The Democrats and Republicans are nothing but a two-headed monster!"

Better Edwards.

[AP]

5. The VP can't be removed by anything but impeachment, I believe.

If McCain didn't want to quit at any point, Kerry couldn't make him.

That should be reason enough not to put him on the ticket.

[Beaker]

6. I wish people would stop making Kerry/McCain conjectures-

it AIN'T gonna happen.

[Skittles]

7. I wish they'd stop too

it's f***ing ridiculous.

[sangh0]

11. Ironic, prediciting what will happen if an event that's never going

to happen, happens.

[hippiegranny]

8. put the mccain myth to bed

it ain't gonna happen, thank _________. (insert deity of choice here.)

[Skidmore]

9. If that happens,

this is one Dem that will be dropping out of the party.

[Mike Niendorff]

12. forget Kerry

Frankly, the first one I'd worry about would be McCain. People who cross the Bush Gang -- and especially those who get in their way -- have a very nasty habit of waking up dead.


MDN

[wellstone_democrat]

13. then I might as well vote Republican?

Why not? Centrist DLC-loved Democratic nominee with an arch-conservative Republican running mate? Why accept imitations? Go for the real deal: get your facism undiluted.

Kerry would be a screaming moron to do such a thing. Why? Well, he'd live about 5 mins after inauguration before a wacko killed him to "help" his new VP.