Aaaargh! I can't take it anymore! Who will be VP and when...

[Maddy McCall]

will this long-awaited announcement be made by Kerry?

What the heck's he waiting for?

Does Clark have a snowball's chance?

I'm waiting on the Kerry/? bumperstickers to be printed. How much longer will I have to wait?

Like Veruca Salt, I want a VP and I want it NOOOOWWW!!!

[RafterMan]

1. It's gone past interesting

into irritating, on to annoying and is lurching towards intolerable.

Get it over with, already.

[democratreformed]

2. "It" being people's behavior I presume - I agree

completely. eom

[comradebillyboy]

3. bush ought to dump cheney and pick holy joe

on a judeo-christian salvation ticket.

[Maddy McCall]

4. LOL!

Now THAT's funny. :-)

[wjsander]

5. VP is usually announced shortly before the convention...

So wait for then and if the announcement still hasn't come, something's up.

[Comicstripper]

6. It will happen

...aproximately 5 days before the convention, according to "expert projections" (and based on past running mate announcements). But this election has started very early, and if you ask me, we'll hear the VP in late June/early July, so Kerry can get his name in the news and start campaigning harder, earlier.
P.S.- For the record,I think it'll be Gephardt. Should be Richardson or Clark, though.

[RafterMan]

7. I think if it's less than three weeks before the convention

it's a waste. It should be worth a good week and a half of news, and the convention should create that much buildup.

Announce early and they'll always have something to chew on.

[Capn Sunshine]

8. I think they're over thinking this thing as usual

but to determine how best to lose this election, which appeared so simple a short few months ago, sudden import has been given to the VP selection.

Losing won't be as simple as they thought, because it appears that they had not counted on the depth of incompetence and inability to cover up even simple crimes that Bush has going for him.

But I have faith in this group of stalwarts,they have demonstrated skill in the face of good news before, so I'm sure they will be able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and choose the worst possible VP they can find.*

Then , the challenge to lose like a true Senate gentleman will face it's stiffest test yet. But Kerry's a good closer. I'm sure he's up to the task.

*by the way, that ain't Edwards, Clark or Dean. This would reveal a wholly new and untested strategy by the party: trying to win. I don't think we'll see such a radical departure from the tried and true methods that have lost so successfully since 1994.

[RafterMan]

9. Heh. I read your post

before I read your name.

Kerry/Quasimodo '04?

[RummyTheDummy]

13. Why

Why do you use * all * over your * posts. *It's very* unusual * to say ***** the least.*

[Crunchy Frog]

17. I really like

your cynicism.:thumbsup:

I find myself sharing it much of the time, but you express it with much more eloquence than I could.

I wish that I had more confidence in the party, and it's will to win than I do.:-(

[Jai4WKC08]

10. Lots more than a "snowball's chance"

Clark is the most likely choice, imo.

Kerry is waiting for the June 30th deadline for campaign contributions. Probably figures donations from some of the high rollers who have been campaigning for other candidate(s) would dry up when their guy(s) is(are) out of the running.

I'm guessing July 4th. Two patriots, two veterans, two silver stars. Standing together to defend the nation. Flags waiving, fireworks bursting in air. You know the drill.

Meanwhile, Clark is doing the same job he would be as VP, albeit with less fanfare. Appearing on the cable news networks, state party functions, private fundraisers. Defending Kerry, attacking Bush, explaining what's going wrong and why. Gaining exposure and credibility (not that he ever suffered from the latter).

Keep the faith.

[JI7]

11. we have no idea because Kerry wont confirm or deny anything

and much of the news coming out conflicts with one another.

[goodhue]

12. It will be Edwards in about 3.5 weeks. n/t

[incapsulated]

14. You will wait and you will LIKE IT!

The vast majority of voting Americans aren't tied up in knots over who will be Kerry's VP. He will only get so much mileage out of this announcement, so it has to be carefully planned.

Not that I don't wish it was over, myself. I know it would make political forums like DU a lot nicer to hang around in, with all the infighting over this.

[Padraig18]

15. 5-10 days before the convention

Most likely Gephardt or Edwards, IMO.

[Zomby Woof]

16. ABD!!!

Still, anybody but Dean! ;-)

[julialnyc]

18. Couldn't help chiming in to Veruca

"I want to wrap it all up in my pocket it's my box of chocolate Don't care how I want it now"
Veruca Salt (Willy Wonka)

[FrenchieCat]

19. Well let's hope that John Kerry will read.....

This article BEFORE making a decision....Not coming from the Presstitute Media Corp.....But Kenneth S. Baer, a former senior speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore.


http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=7927

The Last Hurdle
John Kerry's biggest problem -- still -- is the national security gap. Here's how he can close it.
By Kenneth S. Baer
Web Exclusive: 06.23.04

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In Washington, the only question on anyone's mind is: WWJD -- What Will John Do? Everyone has a theory about whom John Kerry will pick (or should pick) as his running mate, and journalists are scrambling for any angle on the story that they can find.

Last Friday, The Washington Post ran one of the most interesting accounts of where Kerry's thinking may or may not be. While the article was filled with rampant speculation by a panoply of unnamed sources, one observation stuck out. According to the Post: "Friends say Kerry believes he has passed a national security threshold with voters that has freed him to tap a vice presidential candidate who complements him in other ways."

If these "friends" of Kerry were really his friends, they would inform him that, sadly, this is not the case. In fact, the only thing keeping George W. Bush in this race is that John Kerry has not yet met this "national security threshold" with the electorate. Voters still give the President a commanding lead on the questions of who can best protect the nation from terrorists and who is a stronger, more patriotic leader. Fortunately for Kerry, these sentiments say more about the Democratic party -- and voters' lingering doubts about Democrats and defense -- than they do about the candidate. Kerry has enough time to close this national security gap -- and must close it if he hopes to beat Bush this fall.

Despite one question on a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll that showed Kerry with a one-point lead over Bush on the question of "whom do you trust to do a better job of handling the U.S. campaign against terrorism," data within that same poll and in others show that the security gap stubbornly persists.

MUCH MORE of this article at the site...including polling data that backs what they are saying here...