Kerry should pick Rick Santorum for VP.

[Padraig18]

If he picked Santorum, we could lock up the vicious homophobe vote, and probably guarantee that PA would go blue. On an added note, he's only slightly more conservative than McCain, and since picking Republicans as running mates seems like such an 'interesting' idea here at DU, why not? :shrug:

[Padraig18]

1. Let's just nominate TWO Republicans, and forget about Kerry...

Might as well go whole hog...

[dogman]

2. How about Bill Frist?

He wants the job real bad.

[Padraig18]

3. GREAT idea!

Maybe Orrin Hatch would agree to be his running mate!

[bahrbearian]

4. Then after the Kerry Win in Nov.,what do you do with Him?

[eagledove]

thanks

for starting my day off with a good laugh.

Just think of the freeper heads exploding if Kerry would appoint Hillary as AG.

[Padraig18]

7. Hehehe

YW! The whole idea of a Repub as VP is so absurd, I find myself alternately laughing hysterically and almost puking on my keyboard with rage... :P

[newyawker99]

18. Hi eagledove!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Padraig18]

6. Why would it matter?

Winning seems to be the only consideration, for some folks. Do you know any especially repellent RW-ers who would draw some votes for us that haven't been mentioned yet? Feel free to add them to the "Dumbest idea EVER for a VP nominee" list, if you do...

[Bertha Venation]

5. Paddy, my sweet.

John Kerry is not going to pick a Republican running mate. I know you know this, and most DUers know it too. I don't know why people keep agitating for this "lock up the election" strategery, but it's a crock.

I like how you have no qualms about making your feelings known. Are you Irish or something? I'd hate to be with you in a pub if someone ever said, "Hey, why doesn't he pick McCain?" ;)

[Padraig18]

8. *grin*

To paraphrase the commercial, Kim, "Can you hear me now, fellow Democrats?". :P

[Bertha Venation]

9. Raise your voice loud and proud, my friend.

More power to you.
:yourock:

[Padraig18]

11. It's time to drive a stake through this idea's heart!

It's too ridiculous to even think about, and I can't believe it's still alive and kicking. :hi:

[Bertha Venation]

12. How did it start? Was it only on DU or is the DNC kicking it around?

:shudder:

[Padraig18]

13. Some damned fool press report.

Some half-wit press whore with less common sense than free time mentioned it on TV, and it took on a life of its own, for some reason. It just boggles my mind that it would even be discussed in any serious manner on a progressive message board. :wtf:

[Bertha Venation]

14. great description

"some half-wit press whore w/ less common sense than free time" -- covers damn near all of them except for a few exceptional newspapers, doesn't it?

[Padraig18]

15. Yep.

That covers about 90% of them, IMO...:P

[Bertha Venation]

17. Do you watch "The West Wing?"

Last week's was great for indicting the insanity of the 24-hour news cycle.

[Zorra]

21. Today's NYT: Apparently, some fools are still advocating McCain:

I wish this article had mentioned which "Democrats close to Mr. Kerry" are making these claims. I'd like to write to them and give them a piece of my mind if the paragraph below is not just some fantasy laden RW propaganda. I am a yellowdog Democrat. I have never, and will never, vote for a republican. IMO, picking a republican for a VP will sabotage the Democratic Party. What an insult. (Is this a NYT "Jayson Blair" type of article)?

Quick and Quiet Search to Fill the Democratic Ticket
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: April 4, 2004

Democrats close to Mr. Kerry, including some advisers, said Senator John S. McCain, Republican of Arizona, remained a highly alluring choice. One adviser said that choice would almost guarantee Mr. Kerry's election. Mr. McCain, who like Mr. Kerry is a Vietnam veteran, has said he does not want to cross party lines to join a Kerry ticket, though some of Mr. Kerry's aides held out the hope of a personal entreaty by Mr. Kerry, outside Mr. Johnson's network.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/politics/campaign/04VICE.html
No. Republicans. Ever.

[GordonOKC]

10. Santorum

reminds me of a used napkin...of some type...the exact words don't seem to come to me just yet....but they will.

[RC]

16. Yeah,

The bloody part fits.

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. LMAO.

Hell, why not Tom DeLay? He'd pick up the insecto-phobe's vote that way.

[buddhamama]

20. lol

McCain is a militaristic Republican, just what we need more of

[Cuban_Liberal]

22. LMAO!!!

Hell, let's just nominate Jesse Helms, if he's still alive. :P

[fujiyama]

23. The greatest ticket:

DeLay/Santorum

We's capture the homophobic, racist, white supremicist vote!

I'm trying to think of a slogan for this ticket...

Each time I hear this McCain for VP threads I want to :argh:

[Cuban_Liberal]

24. Slogan: "None of us are as dumb as ALL of us!"

:P