Kerry-McCain
by Josh Staiger
Upon picking up the Sunday paper this morning, I was quite surprised to read that there is talk of a possible Kerry-McCain Democratic ticket for president. It's nothing more than talk, of course, and there is probably precisely a snowball's chance in hell that it will happen, but if it did, how cool would that be?
I was a big supporter of McCain against Bush during the 2000 Republican primary, and in casting my vote for Gore in 2000, one of the minor things that crossed my mind (y'know, other than Bush being a completely out-of-touch, incompetant bible-thumper) was the possibility that if a Democrat won in 2000 then maybe the Republicans would pull their heads out of their asses by 2004 (oxymoron, I know), and actually run McCain for real, yielding a *good* president instead of the lesser of two Bushes and Gores. Or course, that didn't happen.
Anyway, I think a Kerry-McCain ticket would likely be very competitive, appealing to a very broad audience. McCain could provide a good balance to some of Kerry's more liberal leaning-tendencies.
I also think that a cross-party ticket could be just the thing needed to really shake things up in Washington right now. God knows, it needs it.
Again, it's never going to happen - and it would likely be near political suicide for McCain if he went for it and the Kerry campaign lost - but still interesting to think about.
C'mon, John. You know you want to.