Compromise with conservatives?

[Deere_John]

When Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency, no one suggested George McGovern as a replacement, although you could, technically, say he was the moral front-runner. If the only alternative to Nixon had been McGovern, conservatives would have stifled their gag reflexes and supported Nixon, resulting in who knows what?

Right now, we all want to wake up and find some stunning reversal of fortune makes John Kerry the official winner of Election '04, but that's not too likely to happen.

I happen to believe that the one issue that transcends all is the ability of this country to have actual elections in '06 and '08. If George W. Bush and friends can install anyone they want at the click of a mouse, then the rest of the issues are pretty moot.

I also happen to believe that if George Bush is in power there will be no more actual honest elections, ever. It's far more important to the future of this country that Bush/Cheney not be in the White House than for Kerry/Edwards to be in it.

To this end, maybe we liberals should consider extending an olive branch to those conservatives who happen to think that you shouldn't have a thief as president, even if he does often say things you agree with. There must be some. Perhaps the idea of a moderately conservative caretaker president in the mold of Gerald Ford as an alternative to the deranged kleptomaniac we seem to be stuck with now is something that enough red-staters could get behind to actually make it happen.

This may be a spectacularly dumb idea but it isn't a troll. Flame away accordingly.

DJ