Lanny Davis: I support McCain-Clinton Ticket

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Wed Mar-26-08 11:29 PM
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Lanny Davis: I support McCain-Clinton Ticket

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Lanny Davis

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There are any number of provocative possibilities for a bipartisan ticket in 2008. Imagine the buzz if Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton committed to making the other vice president in the event that either won the election...

Any of these bipartisan pairings, in any permutation, would create a stir -- and a dynamite ticket..

But I'm betting that such a third ticket won't be necessary, because either Democrats or Republicans -- or both -- will nominate a bipartisan ticket in 2008 or commit to a bipartisan presidency after the election. And I'll wager that if only one of the parties does it, that party will win. . .

As the presidential election year nears, one candidate, a shoo-in for his party's nomination, has an obvious choice for running mate. Yet he also senses the uniqueness of the moment. So he makes a risky decision: He asks a leader of the opposition to run for vice president alongside him, forming the first bipartisan presidential ticket in U.S. history.. .

Today's national unease and rabid partisanship -- so similar to the circumstances of 1864 -- raise the challenge for someone to form a bipartisan ticket in 2008. The lingering trauma of 9/11, the war in Iraq and the fight against terrorism call for an administration open to bipartisan solutions to the crises that confront the country.
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011201956.html

This mainstay of Clinton surrogates is such an antagonistic person on the TV spoon feeding political spin that has the most twisted and corrupt logic that I finally said to myself what is this guy all about.

Here is what I found out:

1) He ran for Congress and lost an election he should have won when he misrepresented his college resume (sound familiar?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanny_Davis
In 1976, Davis ran for Congress as a Democrat in Maryland's 8th congressional district. After winning the Democratic nomination, he was in a close contest with Republican Newton Steers before losing after a minor scandal broke out over Davis mis characterizing his record at Yale Law School.

2) He spent 2006 as the attack dog for the traitor Sen. Liberman
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008763

Moreover, the support he (Lamont)gets from these haters (democratic bloggers) should not be attributed to Mr. Lamont--nor should he be blamed for their extremism, bigotry and intolerance. But he ought to denounce them. He hasn't as yet.

Mr. Lamont and all other liberal Democrats should remember the McCarthy era and not fall into the trap of the hypocrisy of the double standard--that it's not OK when Ann Coulter dispenses her venomous hatred, but it is OK when our side's versions of Ann Coulter do.

3) And then last year he was championing the party that would go bi-partisan - nominate a president from one party and a vice president from the other - is it foreshadowing what the Clinton campaign has in mind if they lose the nomination?

James Carville calling Governor Richardson a Judas.

Lanny Davis advocating McCain-Clinton ticket.

Senator Clinton talks about not choosing your relatives but you pick your pastor. Senator Clinton you choose your surrogates, and they become your voice in the cable networks.

The time has come for Clinton supporters to consider if they really do want to keep company with these folks.

Until I saw the article quoted at the top of the OP I thought the threads talking about McCain-Clinton Ticket were hysterical

- turns out I was just behind in my reading.