How can McCain be the VP candidate

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

if he is on the WMD/intel/whitewash comission which AS DEFINED will not be concluded during the election? Anyone else talking about McCain scenarios see a problem with this?

[Momof1]

1. Of course if he is the VP, then the investigation will go one forever

They will have to put someone else in there and put the investigation back to square one.

[boxster]

2. He can't be, at least in my opinion.

I think McCain's assignment on the WMD intel commission eliminated him as a possible candidate for VP. The conflict-of-interest possibilities are just too much to overcome, even for Bush.

[59millionmorons]

3. Hmmm, who's VP

Kerry's? You never know.

[StClone]

4. We're talking BushCo here

If you are not smart enough to know the rules you invent them as you go. Bush has never had to answer to anybody and he won't start now if he wants McCain on the ticket.

[MAlibdem]

5. McCain as Kerry's VP would be amazing tho

Both Vietnam vets, bring white-conservative males over.

He is a very moderate republican, and EVERYBODY loves him.

Also would deny Repubs a senate slot.

If he could be enticed, promised presidency in 2012? Who knows, probably not tho.

[Tansy_Gold]

6. Sorry, but GOP McCain as Dem VP is, um, not a good idea

I'm trying to be polite so I won't get tombstoned or deleted or something, but seriously, folks, who would even WANT John McCain as Kerry's running mate? McCain may be a moderate republican, but he's no Jim Jeffords. Despite everything that's been done to him by the bushnazis, McCain, like Colin Powell, stands four square in the GOP.

Why, why, why would any sane Democrat want a solid republican sitting in the #2 slot when there are any number of perfectly good Dems available?

Is it just because he's a Vietnam POW vet? Is that all it takes to get Dems in a passion to vote for someone?

Not me, folks. We've got plenty of well-qualified Democrats who could do a much better job than John McCain and who would be better suited to run for president in 2012 than McCain, too.

Tansy Gold, Arizonan by choice

[leyton]

12. I don't like the idea of a GOPer waiting to take over for a Dem

I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any means, but a few too many Democratic Senators have died in plane crashes days before their reelection.

[girl gone mad]

7. If that's the best the Dems could do..

a warmonger Bush-apologist like McCain and IWR-voting Bush appeaser like Kerry on the same ticket, I would change my affiliation to IND.

[StClone]

8. A shoo in

It would sicken many Dems but I think it would be unbeatable. McCain would not have any real power and would be too old to run for Prez later. If we are desperate it would work but as noted it's unlikely. I personally dislike McCain I think he is losing his mental acumen.

[Tansy_Gold]

10. "too old to run for prez later"

Um, think about it, folks ---

Isn't the VP supposed to be, like, kinda-sorta, the prez-in-waiting? Why put someone in as VP that you don't want or don't think can be prez in the future?

So they put in McCain as a "shoo-in," yeah, right, and then along comes 2012 and who's gonna be the heir apparent? Do we have another 9- or 10-candidate free-for-all like this year, with $50-million-plus WASTED in the primary campaign?

McCain is a lousy public speaker, he has had several bouts with melanoma, and he is a REPUBLICAN!!!!! He would hold the tie-breaking vote in a deadlocked senate, and do you really think he would vote with the Dems?????? GMAFB!!!

I'm sorry, mods, and you can delete me I suppose if you want by claiming this is a personal attack, but I happen to think this notion that McCain would make a good "Dem" vp candidate is about the dumbest fucking idea anyone ever came up with, and that INCLUDES Tom Reade of the Arizona Kerry campaign staff (who claimed later, however, that he was drunk when he wrote his letter to the editor at the Arizona Republic).

I haven't yet figured out why ANYONE thinks Dems would vote for McCain as VP JUST BECAUSE HE'S A VET. There are a lot of others out there who aren't repukes. My husband, for one. And yes, he'd be a better vp than McCain. At least he's a DEMOCRAT.

sheesh

Tansy Gold, trying not to have a stroke over this insanity.

[RememberTheCoup]

13. That's a ticket that would push me to the Greens.

Seriously. Fortunately I don't think we would ever be so foolish.

[ldoolin]

14. um

and EVERYBODY loves him.

Don't count on it.

John McCain is the biggest menace to peace and civil liberties in the entire U.S. Senate.

[DerBeppo]

9. i've made the prediction before

and i stand by it. Zell Miller will take Cheney's place.

[ngGale]

11. My problem with McCain is...

evidently he has sold out. My respect is dwindling with each passing moment.

[Bandit]

15. Do you think it impossible for him to say "Hey I've had a better offer"

He will be Bush*'s running mate and it will tighten the race up considerably but they are still going to lose because they are wrong wrong wrong and the American people are just starting to pay attention. The sleeping giant is starting to twitch.