Familiar Faces Likely in Either Bush, Kerry Cabinet -Reuters

[Rose Siding]

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The most likely scenario, according to Republican officials and other insiders, is that Rumsfeld could stay on for a year or two to keep working on restructuring the U.S. military.

Various insiders see Powell staying anywhere from a few months to longer to retire at a time of his choosing rather than under the cloud of the Iraq (news - web sites) war.

"He probably goes. I don't think he'll be resigning on November 3 but by spring he and Rich (Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage
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Democrats talk about enticing Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) to be Kerry's defense secretary, but McCain has tried to throw cold water on the idea. Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), a sharp critic of how Bush handled the war in Iraq, is also a possibility for the job under Kerry.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&ncid=703&e=5&u=/nm/20041024/pl_nm/campaign_changes_dc

[tridim]

1. If Kerry chooses McCain for Defense Secretary

I will be extremely pissed. He deserves scorn, not rewards.

[charlyvi]

2. I agree.

The McCain idolatry on DU is hard to take. McCain is kissing the ass of the same people who trashed his wife and daughter in 2000; he's no kind of man.

[bain_sidhe]

5. Yeah, but hasn't Arizona got a Dem governor?

Sumptin to think about. It's not like Kerry would let him run rampant like bu**sh** has let rumfilled...

[Laelth]

8. That's true.

AZ has a D. governor, Janet Napolitano. And if we were going to put an R in the cabinet, the only way I could excuse that would be if we picked up a seat in the Senate ... but not McCain's seat. McCain is no friend of Kerry and no friend of the Democratic party, but when he's in the senate, he's someone Dems. can reach across the aisle to in order to create bi-partisan legislation, and that's pretty valuable.

just my 2 cents ...

-Laelth

[The Chronicler]

6. I'd be happy. It also removes McCain as a challenger in '08

And we get a Dem senator in AZ.

[mikehiggins]

3. WTF Did we do all this work to put GOPukes in the new administration?

McCain has proven himself to be a whore. How can he be trusted? Because he'll be our whore? Then what happens in 2008?

Same with any GOPuke in the Kerry administration. Do you think they won't hope back on the GOPuke bandwagon when Jeb Bush runs (if HE had been in the White House the last four years, by the way, Osama would be dead and Saddam would still be in Baghdad. Go figure)

Kerry should reach outside of the Congress for his people, and most especially include Clark and Dean and Gephardt and Holbrooke and Wilson and you can name dozens and dozens more.

Why make beleive this is going to be a "fusion" Presidency. This is going to be a Presidency under siege from day one. Kerry has to be aggressive in going after these guys, from the Swiftboatliars to the Murdoch holdings to Halliburton. Otherwise he'll be seeing them again in 2006 when the GOPukes try to expand their hold in the Congress.

At this stage the current GOP is as much a threat to this democracy as El Queda, only more pernicious.

There is a cultural war going on in this country. I'm amazed that any Democrat has the slightest doubt about that. You've been warned time and time again. Just what does it take to convince you?

[Rose Siding]

4. There isn't really a source for that in the article

...other than "Democrats say..." so I'm taking it with a shaker of salt. I snipped that para cuz I'd never heard Hagel even mentioned and I really dislike the idea.

What's really weird, and closer in degrees to being sourced, is that rummy would stay. I really thought they'd want to dump him- Or at LEAST make everyone THINK he'd be cut lose,as he's surely seen as a liability at this point.

[calico1]

7. I would rather he pick Hagel over McCain.

If he were to pick either one. At least Hagel was not slobbering all over *! But I really hope he picks a Democrat. There are a lot of qualified people out there.

[w4rma]

9. President Kerry NEEDS to pick a Dem for Defense Secretary

Picking a Repug would be bascially saying that he thinks Repugs do a better job of defending our country than Dems. It's bullcrap and this entire article is sourced by annonymous people so I think this article is bullcrap too.

[TexasSissy]

10. Kerry won't keep Rumsfeld. He's indicated, in fact, he thinks Rummy

should've been fired for incompetence.

Kerry will not appoint McCain as Sec of State. He might keep Powell for awhile. But I'm sure Kerry will appoint one of his "own" people. There are lots of able Dems who could and would fill this role.

He will not keep Condi Rice, either.

Kerry is not going to keep the administration, which he considered incompetent, on staff one day longer than necessary.