CNN...Kerry will announce his VP in a matter of DAYS!!!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

I just heard this reported on Inside Politics. Kerry will name his VP in a "matter of DAYS"...not weeks. Not months! A few days!

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. I'm so nervous!

Wes Clark is out of the country. :cry::cry: Does this mean he won't be VP?

[cosmokramer]

17. Crips, he will be back in just a few days.

Don't worry!

[keithyboy]

62. He sould wait until the RR ceremonies are over. Focus, focus, focus!!

But right after!

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Hope it's Wes!

But I doubt Gert would go for it.

:cry:

[cosmokramer]

18. Gert wants him to take it.

[ronnykmarshall]

3. Yah hoooo!

So anyone know what Gen Clark's schedule is?

[Adelante]

4. Thank God!

I don't care who he names, just let this all be over.

[bluestateguy]

Here's hoping for Clark or Edwards

Richardson, Landrieu and Vilsack would be acceptable.

Please, please no Gephardt.

[howiedean]

5. you can't trust cnn

CNN is so slanted towards the Bushies that you can't trust any of there conservitive bull.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. They were quoting Kerry from an interview

he did today. So, I think they have this one right. I can't remember which article/interview they quoted though. Sorry. I was so excited!

[tridim]

6. $100 says it's Edwards

Which is fine by me, even though it should really be Dean.

[howiedean]

8. Dean

Howard Dean should be at the top of the ticket and then we could get the hell out of Iraq, Kerry will keep us there as long as Bush.

[WI_DEM]

10. I for one

would love Dean to be Kerry's running mate, but it will not happen.

[julialnyc]

32. I like Dean but

Dean won't be VP....I think he would be a great Surgeon General. I heard a repeat of him on Air America on Monday. He was fabulous!

[ronnykmarshall]

12. Welcome Kerry basher.

[Paradise]

33. lol. thanks. :) nt

[MoonRiver]

47. Ditto!

[cosmokramer]

19. With Dean at the top of the ticket...

...Bush would win by a landslide. Sorry, just the facts.

[Minstrel Boy]

40. "Sorry, just the facts"? Are you a visitor from the future?

We'll never know how Dean would have fared. I have reason to think he would have outperformed Kerry in a general election. But I won't tell you that's "just the facts."

[cosmokramer]

44. Future is easy to read...

...when you have a good ideas, but the candidate is BAD. Sorry, but true.

I have no beef with Dean's 'ideas'...but his image is horrible and all the flip-flopping fodder he provided since he started opening his mouth wide for the cameras makes him a joke...not just in my mind, but check the independent voters. NO WAY he would beat W.

59. Pure Speculation

Dean may be a joke in your view, and though you may not be alone, you sure as hell do not know the future, nor does your judgement count beyond the limitations of your own perspective.

[Cheswick2.0]

61. the independent voters made up about half of my Dean meetups

so, D'oh!

[Upfront]

56. Wrong!

Dean would over shadow tall Bush so bad they won't dare pick him.

[MontecitoDem]

23. Welcome to DU

Happy to have another person join us at DU, even though I totally disagree with your post!

:toast:

[WI_DEM]

9. Wow, interesting.

I wonder how Gep will go over? :)

[JohnKleeb]

45. depends who you talk to

I know, I'll get flack for saying this but two things, one I like Gep mostly for his stands on economics and two Gephardt is popular with the older voters.

[fujiyama]

46. Hey John

How are ya? I heard your computer was messed up.

Gep is a good guy. I don't mind him, but I don't think he's very exciting. I think Edwards or Clark might fire people up more.

Either way, nice to hear from ya again.

[RoundRockD]

11. I just put my Kerry sticker on my car, now I'll have to get a new one. n/t

[ronnykmarshall]

15. If it's Clark

I'm gonna put one my Clark '04 one next to my Kerry one.

[Jack_Dawson]

21. If its Clark I'll GIVE a crap again! (and $$$$$$$!!!!)

Pretty Please?

:toast:

:beer:

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. UPDATE!!!!

The campaign just told CNN that Kerry was JOKING! It will NOT BE in a couple of days!!!!! :grr::nuke:

[MontecitoDem]

14. OOPs!

Kerry campaign just disavowed this!

[Jack_Dawson]

22. Kerry Flip-Flopped?

Dude has poor timing and confused messages. That's why I'm lukewarm on him. But hell he's not Bush. I would vote for my cats b4 Bush.

[Renew Deal]

26. How do you know the Kerry camp was the original source.

Judy is so full of shit.

[LizW]

30. She read a transcript of what he said

but it was freaking OBVIOUS he was joking. I couldn't believe she read it on the air and tried to take it seriously.

[MoonRiver]

50. I don't get what's funny about that.

Camp Kerry just messed with a lot of Clark lovers' heads. I thought the anticipation would be over soon and now I'm back to agonizing about whether it will be Wes. :( :cry:

[DemDogs]

63. Fairly stupid joke

Yeah, here's a laugher: I'll name a VP in a couple of days?
What was the context that made that a funny line?

[cosmokramer]

16. Already have my Kerry/Clark stickers on my car...

...no need for new stickers...this is what the ticket will be.

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. cosmokramer,

I'm praying you're correct. Please g-d, let cosmokramer be correct!

[robbedvoter]

25. Hold on to them - Woof-woof will be the last to know anyway! ;-)

I'd have them too - but I don't have a car ;-)

[Jai4WKC08]

28. Got both of mine on both cars

A "Veterans for Kerry" sticker right over "Clark 04." Looks like one sticker. I'm not worried about having to change 'em. :)

[Qutzupalotl]

24. Man...if this is true, what are we going to talk about in GD2004?

Kidding!! :7

[Padraig18]

31. LOL!

:P

[JayS]

27. I'm betting it will be Ron Paul.

:)

[Scoopie]

43. Nawww. It will be Harold Ford Jr.

with a note from all wingnuts, terrorist and weirdos to promise NOT to assassinate or otherwise harm Kerry until Ford turns 35 in May 2005.

JUST A JOKE!

;)

[Moderator]

29. Kick

:dem:

[Andromeda]

34. Judy Woodruff said they retracted it.

He will NOT be announcing his VP in a matter of days. They were just messing with us.

[mot78]

36. Nevermind

[robbedvoter]

49. Messing with THEM, not us.

[mot78]

35. I want Kerry to wait until July

He should announce it DURING the Convention, as a way of surprising people. But if he chooses a VP soon, please, NO McCain, Bayh, or Gephardt!!!!

[Eurobabe]

37. WOOHOO!!!

Hoping for WES!

[Doosh]

38. oooooh, the anticipation

mind you it can be a bunch of BS, but fun nontheless.

[be inspired]

39. Good, then we can get down to business.

Good. Then we can stop lobbying for VP candidates and start helping Kerry. I hope it's Edwards!

[PVnRT]

41. Please be Edwards

Frankly, I don't see Clark accepting a second-banana position, but he might go for a cabinet post (which I think he's better suited for).

[cosmokramer]

42. Gimme a Break!

If we want to lose in November, go ahead, Kerry, pick Edwards!

If you want to win, choose a military man.

And by the way,IAmJacksSmirkingRevenge, Clark will take the post.

[DemDogs]

64. No, you are

not "IAmJacksSmirkingRevenge", you are the biggest Edwards-hater on DU.
Edwards will help the ticket everywhere. Kerry has to know that already.

[robbedvoter]

48. Kerry pulled Judy's chain. She retracted acrimoniously. No announcement

[dusty64]

51. Cool! I've got my

fingers crossed that he picks someone with charisma and willing to be an attack dog against the rethugs. Hopefully, he will choose one of my favorites.

[in_cog_ni_to]

52. He's NOT announcing his VP in a couple of days.

Right after CNN announced this, the Kerry camp called them and said Kerry was just "joking" when he said it. :(

[dusty64]

53. Bummer!

x

[bitchkitty]

54. I think you're going to be happy -

I think it's going to be Clark. Nobody else will be able to get the indies, NASCAR dads or whatever the latest term for them might be.

[IndianaGreen]

55. Only a Beltway idiot could have coined "NASCAR dads"

The most influential group of people among NASCAR fans are the women, not the men. It is the women that purchase the products of sponsors of their favorite drivers, and many of those products have nothing to do with automobiles, e.g., White Rain shampoo for Dale Jarrett's Busch car, etc.

Only a Beltway idiot could have coined such a meaningless and ignorant phrase as "NASCAR dads" and believe in such a myth!

[curse10]

57. that would be Celinda Lake- she was the first to use the word

and have it recorded

http://www.wordspy.com/words/NASCARdad.asp

[bitchkitty]

60. No doubt -

courtesy of the same people who brought us "soccer mom" - another term I really hate.

[quaker bill]

66. You are not going to get NASCAR dads anyway

Guess what, at the Daytona 500 the repugs were there registering voters. The Dems were notably absent. BTW the line of NASCAR dads signing up to vote republican was long. Locally, Democrats have more sense than to even bother to try. All it would have been was an opportunity to get yelled at by neo-cons.

[VOX]

58. Kerry/Clark or Kerry/Edwards...

Both possibilities sound pretty good!

:toast:

[Padraig18]

65. Either ticket would be outstanding!

Whether it's Kerry/Clark or Kerry/Edwards, we win! What a lovely 'dilemma' to be in, IMO.

:D

[IconoclastIlene]

67. If he picks Gephardt

Ill get the same queasy feeling I got when Gore picked Lieberman, it just wasnt gonna work somehow.