Funny Contradictions observed

[Must_B_Free]

Observation:

It is considered bad for McCain to join Kerry as VP because he is a Republican, but it is just fine for Theresa Heinz Kerry to be first lady, even though she is a life time Republican who only turned Democrat 2 years ago.

Disclaimer: I don't support McCain for VP and I do like THK for first lady. I just think this is a comical observation about our friends and enemies.

[salin]

1. I would guess that had McCain defected from GOP two years ago

(esp before the 2002 elections)... and had been stronger in opposing bush's blank check war policies... that there might have been more support for such a move.

[Must_B_Free]

2. But didn;t Kerry himself support

those blank check war policies?

As far as I remember, Dennis Kucinich was the only one who opposed them.

[salin]

4. No

not referring to the actual vote - which has been discussed many times (I suggest John Dean's book about the traps set within that whole set up) - and while I disagree with Kerry's vote - as foolish - I don't believe it was blank check. As bushco moved to frustrate and end UN inspections - Kerry stepped up his vocal challenges to the deceit of the administration (as he claimed he would do if they reneged on their promises.) That debate has been had a gazillion times here - and isn't the point of this post.

I refer to McCain's on going support pre-invasion, during invasion, the support for the trumped up (propoganda) per the admins lies about the need for war, etc.

[Goldmund]

3. "First Lady"

isn't an office.

[meegbear]

5. How's this?

Teresa Heinz Kerry says anger, not ideology, prompted her to become a Democrat. The wife of Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, says her emotion stemmed from the way the Republican Party, to which she had pledged allegiance, treated Democratic Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia in 2002.

<snip>

Heinz Kerry, in an interview to be broadcast Tuesday on the "CBS Evening News," says Cleland's status as a triple amputee is enough to prove his patriotism.

"Three limbs and all I could think was, 'What does the Republican party need, a fourth limb to make a person a hero?' And this coming from people who have not served. I was really offended by that. Unscrupulous and disgusting," she said, her reference being an indirect one to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

<snip>

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040615/ap_on_el_pr/heinz_kerry

[truthspeaker]

6. Vice President is a political office with power; first lady is not

First lady isn't even an official title. I don't care about the politics of the president's wife any more than I care about the politics of his kids, his siblings, or his electrician.

Your "contradiction" isn't a contradiction at all.

[beyurslf]

7. If there is a tie in the Senate, does the 1st Lady break it or the Veep?

Or if the President dies in office, does the VP take over or the 1st Lady?

Therein lies the difference.

[Peachhead22]

8. When John Kerry is prez...

Under a McCain for VP scenario how many people in the chain of succession have to die or be impeached for Teresa Heinz-Kerry to become President?

How many people have to die or be impeached for a conservative repub VP to become President?

[bacchant]

9. The only possible motive for putting McCain on the ticket would be to

secure more votes for Kerry. This seems reasonable if the goal is ABB, but I'll say it again, we need to reinvigorate our progressive roots, not slouch further to the right. Let's put this McCain bullshit to rest.