Dean - McCain?

[CalebHayes]

Arizona has quite a few electoral votes. Sure we may not like him too much but he sure would help win in 2004. Like the idea?

[salin]

1. no.

McCain is great in the senate, a principled maverick that will go against the party.

But he remains very conservative in his political views. He is no Jim Jeffords.

Wouldn't make a good vice presidential candidate for any democratic candidate.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It has not happened in 1912 and that was the bull moose party

TR ran that way ON PURPOSE by the way... to defeat the GOP

[CalebHayes]

9. And the GOP got %23 of the vote.

[davidinalameda]

2. why would the Democratic nominee want to run with a Repuke

McCain is a Repuke

[CalebHayes]

4. Because he would help carry us too victory.

Want to win or what?

:beer:

[mot78]

3. No

McCain's too conservative on social issues, and he's already promised to campaign for *

[CalebHayes]

5. He did? What an idiot!

[AntiCoup2K4]

7. Even though Mc Cain isn't exactly the biggest fan of the Bush/PNAC agenda.

..He is still a proud Republican and has no intention of leaving his party. Arizona Republicans are a different bunch though, as McCain and Goldwater before him have shown. Bush definitely does NOT have that state in the bag, so we may well end up with those electoral votes anyway. I have always considered AZ my "second home" so it will be interesting to see how things develop in the Grand Canyon state this year.

[LiberalVoice]

8. Heck No!

IMHO McCain is a piece of trash. Listening to him talk about how America should be alowed to gloat in the faces of other country's because "our great president has been doing so well with the war in Iraq" right after the capture od Sadaam Hussein made me went to put my fist through a wall.

[Scott Lee]

10. I don't like McCain for several reasons

The fact that he's an anti-Asian bigot, not the least of them.

Oh, and please put a hold on hollering that McCain gets a pass because he was a POW. I know former POWs who don't call Vietnamese "Gooks".

[KaraokeKarlton]

11. There would be one advantage of having a Rep VP...

It would likely cause the GOP to nominate McCain to run in 2012 and would save us from another goddamned Bush running! :D

[Desertrose]

15. please please tell me you are not serious n/t

[KaraokeKarlton]

20. Please Please tell me you are not serious

in asking.

Yeah, it was a joke. I don't dislike McCain, though. I don't agree with him on everything, but as a bona-fide swing voter I am not into all the Republican vs Democrat stuff. I think Graham should be Dean's running mate, not McCain or anyone else.

[Padraig18]

12. NO

I want 2 DEMOCRATS, thank you.

[citizen snips]

13. Good point but...

why the hell would McCain support Dean?

[Desertrose]

14. No...are you kidding?? ...he IS a repub!

He'd never do it ..the gop wouldn't let him and the Dems wouldn't want him....
Besides...I don't know if Dean has a lock on AZ...DK has some pretty close ties here in AZ....

as an interesting side note...is anyone aware what McCain pulled on the Navajos??


http://www.aics.org/BM/bm.html

" The 1974 Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act was pushed through Congress by a group representing the coal-fired power industry, which believed their industry would benefit by having the U.S. government finance the eviction of all the people living in an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. In their rush to promote national energy self-sufficiency, Congress never considered where the people would go or how relocation would affect their lives. Nor did they consider the wishes of the people they planned to relocate. John McCain authored this "relocation" bill.
<snip>

The final solution - the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act, was sponsored by Senator John McCain. Senator McCain comes from a very wealthy family, and has some very close personal and political ties to; the mining industry (coal, uranium, etc.), the power generating industry, and at the time he sponsored this genocidal bill - he was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs! To state the facts in plain blunt English, he sold out the lives of these Indian people, relocating them to radioactive contaminated lands, so that his "friends" in the mining and power generating industries would profit. Genocide for profit. "



Nice guy,huh? real liberal....not.

Peace
DR

[Kathleen04]

16. Lieberman/McCain..

sounds more feasible. :o

[Astarho]

17. Yeah, that will convince everyone we're not Repub-lite

:eyes:

[SheilaT]

18. I hate to be patronizing,

but we've had a number of these "dream ticket" threads in the past, and they are all a complete waste of time. Politicians do not change political parties very often. It simply isn't going to happen that a Republican and a Democrat will team up and run together.

As others have pointed out McCain is not only a Republican but a very conservative one at that. For some reason I simply cannot figure out, people are convinced he's some kind of a liberal.

[BringEmOn]

19. No. That would assure another assassination. n/t