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Mar. 10th, 2004 04:42 pmCourtesy of The Daily Kos:
On today's Good Morning America, Senator John McCain (R-AZ), when asked if he'd consider an offer to run on a ticket with Senator (and Presidential nominee in all but formal senses) John Kerry (D-MA):
I respect John McCain, even if he's a little farther right than is generally comfortable for me; and this would be one move that could excite me about Kerry as a candidate- having the nerve to pick someone so far from his ideologic position in the political spectrum.
Although he's a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist, deficit hawk, and a bit of a publicity hound, he's also been pretty vocal about the amount of deficit the Bush administration has racked up; and, other than on the abortion spectrum doesn't seem that different than Bill Clinton- just in matters of degrees.
Kerry-McCain would pretty much put the Bushies on the defensive, and it'd definitely take the "I'm a uniter, not a divider" sound-bite from the 2000 election and turn it on them in a big way, as in "Who's a uniter now, Mr. Wedge Issue...?"
On today's Good Morning America, Senator John McCain (R-AZ), when asked if he'd consider an offer to run on a ticket with Senator (and Presidential nominee in all but formal senses) John Kerry (D-MA):
John Kerry is a close friend of mine... Obviously I would entertain it... But I see no scenario where that would happen.
I respect John McCain, even if he's a little farther right than is generally comfortable for me; and this would be one move that could excite me about Kerry as a candidate- having the nerve to pick someone so far from his ideologic position in the political spectrum.
Although he's a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist, deficit hawk, and a bit of a publicity hound, he's also been pretty vocal about the amount of deficit the Bush administration has racked up; and, other than on the abortion spectrum doesn't seem that different than Bill Clinton- just in matters of degrees.
Kerry-McCain would pretty much put the Bushies on the defensive, and it'd definitely take the "I'm a uniter, not a divider" sound-bite from the 2000 election and turn it on them in a big way, as in "Who's a uniter now, Mr. Wedge Issue...?"
