MSNBC to discuss Kerry's VP choice in the next half hour.

[Auntie Bush]

[Auntie Bush]

1. Asking if Kerry has nailed it down to three/

I'll :cry: if they only discuss Edwards, Gephardt and Vilsac?(sp)

Damn! No mention of Clark. Said this comes directly comes from the Kerry camp.

[BootinUp]

2. These are the three

that are going to get pre-scrutinized to death. Then Clark will look like the hero on the white horse. heh.

Look I don't think these pundits have a g-damn clue.

[MoonRiver]

3. Right before this CNN said it was down to Clark and Edwards!

:shrug:

[Auntie Bush]

4. Hope your right! Then the wolves will be .

off Clark till he announces.

[MessiahRp]

14. Well here's hoping it's not Vilsack

He's a nice guy and all but not the guy I'd want as my VP. I saw him at the Iowa JJ dinner last year and he actually forgot part of the Pledge of Allegiance which he was leading (and no "Under God" wasn't the line).

Then this Saturday he was extremely boring at the WI State Convention. I mean sure both he and Gov. Doyle were a letdown after Feingold's fiery speech, but Vilsack was just dragging and a lot of people left his speech early and he was the Kerry Surrogate for the event.

So my opinion is, nice guy, but not my choice at all.

Rp

[Cheswick2.0]

20. MSNBC doesn't know anything you don't know

all this speculation is ridiculous.
Remember when Cheney picked him self and Gore picked Lieberman? Both were a suprise.
When Reagan chose Bush it was a surprise. When Bush chose Mr Potatoehead it was a surprise.
Don't sweat it.

[sadiesworld]

5. The whore press talks up Edwards nonstop, and then...

lo' and behold, the polls favor Edwards. :eyes:

[PeaceProgProsp]

17. The pols favor him too.

[wjsander]

6. This is great.

So funny. :D

[Jai4WKC08]

7. So, what did they say? n/t

[BootinUp]

8. They said

That the Kerry campaign has leaked out that the three choices are pretty much down to Edwards, Gep, and Vilsak. It was the chief political correspondent for MSNBC, can't remember his name right now.

[Jai4WKC08]

9. Interesting...

Right about the same time, I was listening to a CNN discussion that seemed to think it was down to Clark and Edwards. But the CNN guy admitted it was pure speculation. He also said that there are only handful of people (as in, "count on one hand") outside of Kerry and Johnson who know anything at all.

Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know.

[troublemaker]

13. Leaking that means they have chosen Clark.

Good! They are trying to tamp down the fact that Clark's name has crept in the discussed mix. The eventual pick always has to be a "big surprise."

[underpants]

10. Sam Nunn?

ABC WNT reported that Kerrey met with Gephardt (please no) and Vilsack (sorry.......the name) was in DC but would not comment and said reporters should ask Kerrey about his conversations and whom he met with.

Edwards is still seen as the front runner, according to ABC.

The report then stated that ABC had learned from the lead of the VP search Jim Johnson that the VP candidate need IMMEDIATE National Security credentials/name recognition.

Graham
Nunn..............NUNN? Oh brother that could be IT comparable to a McCain choice
William Cohen-not a bad choice
Clark

Wow Nunn????????

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. This clinches it for me.

The report then stated that ABC had learned from the lead of the VP search Jim Johnson that the VP candidate need IMMEDIATE National Security credentials/name recognition.

There's ONE person in the running who qualifies with immediate National Security credentials/name recognition.

Wes Clark. It has to be him. I'm not worried. Vilsak??? Does he have National Security credentials? Governor of Iowa? :shrug: Sam Nunn??? Now there's a blast from the past. Out of the blue...Sam Nunn? Nope. Won't be him. Edwards? Does he have immediate National Security credentials? Nope...he does not. Gephardt? Does HE have National Security credentials> maybe, but it won't be him because he's a BIG HUGE YAWN! :boring: AND Gep didn't do very well in the primaries. Clark, on the other hand, has a HUGE grassroots movement and has ALL of the needed credentials to immediately start his new job as VP. Yup, it's Clark. :loveya:

[IndianaGreen]

18. Sam Nunn, the homophobe?

I seriously doubt that Kerry would stoop so low as to pick such an idiot.

[incapsulated]

11. Once again, I predict...

The pundit's will be wrong. They always are about the VP pick. Always. Bank on it, it's got all the precedent in the world. :)

[Nicholas_J]

16. Yup

I don't remember a presidential campaign where either the pundits or public opinion was correct in the selection of the running mate, and most of the time the person chosen was either a totally unknown person, or the person on the shortlist that the public least expected to be given the job. If you think back, Gore was not given much chance, as both he and Clinton were southerners. Dan Quayle, virtually unknow outside of his own region. George HW Bush...Mondale, Gerald Ford, Spiro Agnew, Hubert Humphrey. Most of these people were not much thought of by the public or the pundits prior to their actual selection.

[Gloria]

15. Ah, but I just read on my WC2004 digest that Inside Politics proclaimed

that while Clark had a couple of days of meetings with Kerry in DC, and Kerry had met Gep, but not Tom V., Edwards has no meetings scheduled this week in DC.

And, in a post I just made awhile ago, we see that Clark did a conference call on Tuesday (yesterday) arranged by the Kerry campaign slamming Bush on Afghanistan (post-Karzai pressconference) and Iraq.

Now, the question becomes: has Kerry been informing those in these meetings that they aren't the pick, and saving a meeting with Edwards later to seal the deal???

Frankly, being tired of all this, and getting suckered by this...I'm just going to stick to my original prediction, months ago, that the deal was sealed then with Clark...

Whose doing the heavy lifting out there? Clark. If he isn't the one, it will be an incredible letdown and I will seriously question Kerry's judgment and ability to fend off the establishment hounds.

[wjsander]

19. Edwards is meeting with Kerry today

Just thought I should clearify.