Here's an idea! Let's put a Pug at the bottom AND top of the ticket!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

We'd really get some crossover votes! Are you with me gang!?!

:think:

Christ!

[gristy]

1. Is this another McCain for VP thread?

It better not be... :(

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. It's a McCain NOT for VP thread.

It's fucking absurd.

[pinto]

7. big kick.

[Padraig18]

2. LOL!

I see we have the same thoughts on the subject of Repukes being part of OUR party's ticket! :P

[Stevendsmith]

3. Thank you.

So fucking sick of this McCain talk.

Why in the world would we add a staunch ally of Bush to the ticket?

Boggles the mind.

[Malva Zebrina]

13. one whose wife and family were attacked b y Bush

and who then went on to kiss his Texas snakeskin boots for doing so.

[Gildor Inglorion]

5. Why hell, yeah!

A John-McCain/Olympia Snowe ticket for the Democrats couldn't fail...why didn't I think of that? Arizona for the western/southern voters, Maine for the eastern/northern voters...two decent, moderate RINO's...wow, you're a f***in' genius, RIF...brilliant.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. Now you're thinking!

Can't believe the Party hasn't thought of it before. No more right wing attacks. No more soft on security. No more nuthin'.

McCain/Snowe 2004!

[quinnox]

6. heh, at least it is a change of pace from endless Berg threads

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. No shit.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Hey! There are better repukes out there who could run instead!!!

If Kerry chooses McCain, I will say that Nader was right and write in Attilla the Hun for president next November. (And that will put the local election judges' panties in a twist, as happened in 2002 when I wrote in Paul Vallas vs. Rod Blagoevich for Illinois governor).

But why McCain and not some proven repuke vote getter who has served in high office?

How about Tricky Dick? Okay, so he's dead. I live in Chicago, where the dead vote early and often and see no problem with this. Nixon was a great vote getter and even won by a landslide in 1972 with the spectre of Watergate hanging over his head.

Or, how about Ronnie Ray-goon? Okay, so he is at death's door. So what? He won by a large margin in 1980 and a landslide in 1984. And he was a war hero! He played one in the movies.

:eyes:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. David Duke is out of jail!

:think:

[gulfcoastliberal]

10. Stop the Appeasment!

Clinton's experiment with Cohen and Freeh sure won over the pugs, huh? It really helped the spirit of bipartisan witch hunts. /sarcasm

[babzilla]

14. It is the lazy reporters at fault, not the democratic party necessarily

The NYT article that brought this all up again is a perfect example of the beltway pundits recycling an old stale story instead of putting the effort into an analysis of the facts at hand.

Judy Wilgoren is a media whore of the highest order.

Don't make me have to post the daily howler links that prove her disingeniousness.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. If Wilgoren is a whore....

...what does that make Joe Biden? (And an uncomfortably large percentage of posters here?)

[babzilla]

22. That makes Joe Biden=idealistic believer in bipartisanship

the poor sucka.

[harper]

24. That's been a shocker, hasn't it

The number of folks at this site who think a Republican senator would be just dandy on the democratic ticket.

[BlueStateGirl]

16. It's sickeneing, defeatist appeasement.

[ldf]

17. there is no need for us to go bottom feeding

by going to the repub party for a vp candidate.

if so, it is just another leg in the "rush to the center", which thanks to the reichtwing, is just two degrees to the left of pat robertson and his ilk.

if i wanted to vote for republicans, i'd join the republican party.

either offer me democrats, or kiss my ass as i sit at home.

/rant off

personally i think it is all the media, trying to give the impression that we democrats have no one to call on. at least no one that would appeal to the great unwashed masses as good as a republican.

i don't see kerry warming up to the notion. but he will make the best use of the publicity.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

20. Hmmm.

personally i think it is all the media, trying to give the impression that we democrats have no one to call on. at least no one that would appeal to the great unwashed masses as good as a republican.

A media complicit with the RNC. Worth thinking about.

[bearfartinthewoods]

31. yeah but if Kerry would stop talking about mccain

it would go a long way towards shutting up the press whores .

My friend John McCain this and My friend John McCain that. Kerry is perpetuating it and i wish he'd cut it out. it looks silly.

[charlie]

18. Now THAT'S thinking outside the box

One-upping Reagan Democrats by running Republicans on Democratic tickets. Give 'em a party they'll hanker to come home to. We can call ourselves New New New Democrats and throttle the leftist wusses in the DLC. Bold thinking for trying times. I like the cut of your jib, mister.

[Algorem]

19. Kerry should promise that if he wins,Bush will be his co-president,Cheney

will be McCain's co-president.How can we lose?Won't lose/won't win.Win-win-lose-lose-win-lose-lose-win-win-lin-wose-wose-lin.Unity now!

[jmowreader]

21. Y'know, this might really work!

Who the hell was it said if the voters have the choice between a Republican and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, they'll take the Republican every time?

Oh, never mind. Anyway...

What would happen if we ran Republicans against Bush and Cheney? Bush and Cheney aren't Republicans, at least not the kind of Republicans you and I grew up with. Republicans used to be all for small government, reticence to interfere in the affairs of sovereign states, and fiscal responsibility--the very things Bush and Cheney abhor.

I think our Republicans would win.

I know our Democrats will.

Kerry-Edwards or Kerry-Clark, please.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

23. Our Republicans!- - -That's the ticket!

Our Republicans are better than your Republicans!

Slappin' it on the bumper now.

[jmowreader]

30. "Our Republicans can lick your Republicans

with one hand tied behind their backs."

[Lorien]

25. Shhhh...

let's not give the DLC any ideas!

[PurityOfEssence]

26. Splendid idea

Might I suggest Dornan/Duke?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

28. Thought of it in post #12.

Although B-1 Bob is strictly a product of your mad genius. I like it!

[Algorem]

27. ok,2 Republicans,but they have to wear those shock-collars like on that

Star Trek episode, and Kerry and McCain get the clickers.Just as crazy.

[DieboldMustDie]

29. Roy Moore for veep!

:crazy:

[Cronus Protagonist]

32. Shit, we should just merge with the Republican Party

And take them down by acts of insurgency and hit their weak spots from the inside... just like the Iraqis are doing, in fact.

http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

33. I though we've been in that process for the last couple of years.

It seems that way anyway.

[union_maid]

34. McCain said it's not happening, AGAIN

He was quite clear. He said he supported Bush's re-election. He's not the guy. Everyone can relax.