How amenable are you to the idea of McCain as a running mate for Kerry?

[Delano]

Poll question: How amenable are you to the idea of McCain as a running mate for Kerry?

How amenable are you to the idea of McCain as a running mate for Kerry?

[Delano]

1. Personally, I think it's a bad idea.

If McCain was so wonderful, he would've switched parties years ago.

[T Town Jake]

6. Agreed...

...I voted "No, he's okay for a Repuke but..." BTW. There are plenty of good Democrats around to fill that VP slot. My personal favorite would be Governor Bill Richardson.

[MrSlayer]

2. He is a Puke, we are Democrats. Pretty simple really.

We don't need to do something this radical to win.

[WindRavenX]

3. I like it because of only one reason...

A Kerry/McCain ticket would end Bush's 4 dark years...There is no doubt in my mind that they would crush Bush Inc.
I dislike it because, well, McCain's social stances are...in absolute confliction with my very liberal views.
If he gets Bush out, go for it.

[LittleApple81]

8. If Kerry dies in office do we get a repug president WE voted for? n/t

[expatriot]

4. It's a big media myth that McCain is a moderate...

...his voting record is terrible. Seriously.




this graphic comes from http://www.starkyforsenate.com

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Not one bit

McCain has integrity for a Republican..other than that, I am mostly opposed to his positions on everything but for campaign finance reform.

[lyrical di]

7. give it up finally

Get a Dem

[DoktorGreg]

9. All you need to know about McCain is this...

You can trash, him, his service, his wife, and his children, and he STILL supports Bush.

[Piperay]

10. Repukes would do a 'Wellstone'

on Kerry. :scared: I would really fear for Kerry's safety, repukes are so evil they are capable of anything and everything.

[neverborn]

11. NOT. STOP MAKING THESE THREADS.

[dand]

12. McCain is a right wing loose cannon

Kerry should pick Anthony Zinni.

[REP]

13. No NO No No No No No No No

I like and even admire McCain; even though I disagree with many of his positions, he seems to be an honorable man. Even his defense of his party seems honorable - he doesn't always seem to like it, but does it as part of his job as a Republican.

That said, he's still a Republican. I want to vote for Democrats. Even if I believed McCain would accept (I don't; I think he's a party loyalist), I think it's a terrible, horrible, awful idea.

[KG]

14. lame-o

[Speed8098]

15. Enough Already

This is starting to get tiresome.


WE ARE DEMOCRATS!

McCAIN IS A RE:puke:


We hate everything the re:puke:'s stand for, and you ask if anyone would vote for that kind of ticket?

There's more important issues to deal with.

Mods, please move this kind of fantasy crap to the lounge where it belongs.

[Walt Starr]

16. Keryy could pick up a steaming pile of dog shit

say, "this will be my Vice resident", and I'd still vote for him.

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. No.

He'd be assassinated within weeks of being elected and we'd have a repuke prez again....to continue the chimps destruction of our country. THIS is one Dem who WILL NOT vote for Kerry if he chooses McCain. I've already compromised by giving Kerry my vote. If he chooses McCain...I stay home. Period. THIS is one Democrats who never votes for repukes....ever. I don't care how "moderate" they are. McCain is CAMPAIGNING for the chimp! Give me a damn break!

[takebackourjobs]

21. I think

it would be far too tempting to the neocon cabal. These folks have proved that they are capable of any underhanded illegal act imaginable. Why give them the opportunity to take the Whitehouse back without even having to steal the election?

[JanMichael]

18. I'm not keen on Kerry feeling the need to run with a Republican.

Which would, if I'm not just hung-over, probably lead to a McCain Presidency after Kerry.

Yeah...

[Scairp]

19. Sick of hearing this

McCain is NOT a Democrat, he's already said over and over again that he will not switch parties, that Bush is his candidate, end of story. Why oh why do people keep harping on this? You don't pick a member of the political party you are trying to defeat at election time as the number two for the presidential ticket. It's too stupid to even be discussed, yet it has been ad nauseum. For the love of pete, give it a frigging REST!!!:puke: :mad:

[mitchum]

20. NO

[Cheswick2.0]

22. sure...........

because all the democrats already said no, right? :eyes:

[OpSomBlood]

23. McCain vs. Kerry, I'd probably vote for McCain.

Take that for whatever it's worth.

[DrBB]

24. McCain talk = Kerry desperation

It was reported a couple days ago that Kerry or his people have had 7 contacts with McCain about this, and each time McCain has categorically refused.

This is ridiculous. McCain's a respectable guy, but he's not even a moderate or a centrist, he's a conservative. And the continual noise about this just makes Kerry look like an anxious idiot. What, we have to go to the OTHER PARTY for our Veep? People think that's going to SELL? It's a joke. And the more this drags on, the worse it gets. The story is becoming "Kerry going begging to McCain to run with him, and McCain tells him to get lost!"

Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid.

I don't HAVE enough "stupids" in my keyboard for how stupid this is.

[Delano]

26. That's what made me suspect from the beginning that the talk is all BS

Kerry & McCain are friends, but that;s the end of it. All the talk of Kerry's desparation to recruit McCain could just as easily be Rove-inspired rumormongering just to make Kerry look desparate.

After all, both Kerry AND McCain deny that the recruiting ever took place.

[sendero]

27. Why doesn't Kerry just come out..

... and categorically deny this whole thing? Does he REALLY think this works to his advantage?

[Toot]

29. That's a very good question and I wish he would come out and deny it.....

But unfortunately it's probably true. And further more, I'm deeply disappointed and disgusted.

[UTUSN]

25. No, Non, Nada, Zilch, and HELL NO! n/t

[Astarho]

28. Hell no

First it would alienate most of our base and many repubs would consider him a traiter and still not vote for him.

Kerry can do better than someone like McCain, who despite his talk of being a reformer has a whole lot of nasty shit in his past:

Corruption (Keating Five)

Possible mafia ties (birthday cards to Joe Bananas)

Possible genocide (Black Mesa)

"Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father." -- John McCain

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

30. Why would Kerry even think about this? MCain is a Republican.

...& a very conservative one, too, if you look at his record.

Kerry needs to pick a Democrat as he has a pretty good bench to pick from.

[Alpharetta]

31. It would be the white flag of surrender

as if Democrats have no candidates and no platform of their own.