If Dean is the Nominee - who of the candidates Should be VP?

[seventhson]

I personally like Edwards the best.

That is because I think both Kerry and Clark are tooclose to the BFEE and that would make Dean a likely candidate for an assassination. That is my honest opinion. I may be wrong about both Clark and Kerry on this issue - but it is what I honestly believe.

Politics is dirty. Political assassinations are rampant in the world and not uncommon in the U.S.

So the idea that the corporofascists would support or position a candidate who would replace the Prez seems very real to me (as I believe happened with JFK/LBJ). Okay, tell me to wear a tinfoil hat. But that is the reason I do NOT support Clark or Kerry for VP. Seriously.

Edwards to me is the best choice and Moseley Braun or Gephardt would be good candidates.

I love Dennis but think he would not help the ticket enough.

So who do you want of these folks and WHY (and tell me why I am wrong about my perceived danger of Kerry and Clark if you disagree with me)?

[Lisa0825]

1. OKAY, WHO voted for Dean/Lieberman????LMAO!

That's gotta be a joke!!!

[seventhson]

4. Not ME!!!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Edwards or Mosely-Braun would be great!

:)

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Clark is willing to take on the Military Industrial

complex,

He is also an ideal national security candidate

In fact I like that ticket no particular order

And a defeat for Bush NOW is a rejection of the BFEE if they bring
enough sats to take the Seaate and the House

[patricia92243]

5. Gen. Anthony Zinni

[adamrsilva]

8. Zinni would be good too! Forgot about him. Edwards would be ok.

Clark has said unequivocally no to being Dean's VP, and even made fun of the prospect, saying he wouldn't be 'Dean's Cheney." He doesn't want it.

[hellhathnofury]

9. I initially thought Zinni would be a good idea too.

But I've since changed my mind for the same reasons I'm not thrilled about Clark. No political campaign expierence. Zinni would make a great Sec Def or could be our man in Baghdad.

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. Edwards - out of those listed.

Graham or Zinni would also be excellent choices. Clark has pretty much talked himself out of the job, but he can still be Secretary of Defense.

[adamrsilva]

7. Dean/former candidate Graham

He's old, but he wants it. He talks "Southern" and has "foreign policy experience," like Clark, and unlike Edwards.

[seventhson]

10. Edwards' Senate Intelligence Committee Assignment IS Foreign Policy!!!

Experience!!!

Better a man who knows the inside security scoop than someone who is only a general.

I think we need the YOUTH of an Edwards to keep the ball rolling in 2012 and 2016!!! Not an old guy who won't be a contender in 8 years!

[adamrsilva]

12. Graham was former chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee

But Edwards would be good.

[Demeter]

11. I Never Thought of VP as Assassination Protection

But it makes sense. That must be why Cheney is in the 2nd banana spot.

[seventhson]

15. We better START thinking about it - BUT as for Cheney

It is the BFEE repugs who have the assassination apparatus down to an art and science and practice.

They need an insider who will protect them and, in Cheney's case, he is not assassination insurance so much as the wicked queen behind the throne.

[Fleshdancer]

13. I voted for Kerry

weird, huh? Foreign policy experience, he could kick Cheney's ass in the debates, and the two together would be a very symbolic gesture that the party is ready to ban together to get the WH back.

If Dean and Kerry can put their differences aside for the greater good of the country, then maybe the Democrats and Greens can do the same.

[saltpoint]

14. If Dean is our nominee --

-- maybe for VP it could be:

Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia
Bill Moyers (PBS analyst, liberal Baptist from Texas)
Lee Hamilton (former Indiana Congressman)
George Mitchell
Max Cleland
Mary Landrieu
Dale Bumpers

[SheilaT]

16. There are no other possibilities?

Besides, hasn't this been done to death already?

[mlawson]

17. Either Edwards or Clark would do.

Edwards, for one thing, has been 'vetted'. If that is the word, he has been scrutinized tothe nth degree, when he ran against and defeated Lauch Faircloth in NC in 1998. If there had been ANYthing in Edwards' past, the repukes would have thrown it at him then.

But both men have excellent personalities, looks, and all the other requisites held dear by the 20% apolitical voters in the center. And they are tough!!! And smart.

[Doctor Pedantic]

18. Edwards would be great

If I hadn't jumped on the Dean bandwagon so early (last January, I'm proud to say!), I would be an Edwards guy. He's got a lot of terrific ideas, he's bright, good-looking, Southern, has Washington experience (but not too much), and incredibly articulate and charismatic. I don't know why he hasn't gotten more traction in this campaign, but I think he's eventually going to be a real star.

How about Dean-Edwards now, with Edwards the presumptive nominee (against Hillary?!)after Dean's second term?

Hey, it could happen....

[seventhson]

19. Interesting - 10% of DUers will NOT VOTE DEM

if Dean is the Nominee


good to know

[seventhson]

20. very interesting kick

anyone else?