A good reason for going left in the VP choice

[genius]

The right-wing is pretty good at assassinating our liberal Presidents. If a liberal is in the wings ready to take over, they won't do anything to Kerry. Both he and the country escape a nightmare if he has a liberal VP.

[cjbuchanan]

1. Unless they assassinate both of them.

And the plot thickens.

I guess this idea is kind of like selecting Dan Quayle.

[tom_paine]

2. Not true, Gore was more liberal than Clinton

The Busheviks had plans to "take him out", either the way Clinton did or perhaps the Real Thing, once Clinton was given the business.

The way to go here is to Go SOUTH not necessarily Left (though I wouldn't be opposed to that)

[T Wolf]

3. Max

Cleland

[Hippo_Tron]

19. Max Cleland would be the VP pick if he had won re-election

Granted Max is a GREAT guy who stood up for what he believed in and got destroyed by the Rove smear machine. If I were Kerry I'd feel horrible knowing that I couldn't choose Max because he lost re-election. It's like saying you did the right thing but I have to punch you in the face because you did the right thing. But thats just the reality of politics. We can only hope that karma catches up to Rove and Saxby Chambliss.

[Bombtrack]

4. This is the most rediculous statement, sorry.

As if there's some inner circle of evildoers who were all in on Lincoln, McKinley, and Kennedy. None of them, by the way, were exceptionally liberal either. They were in some ways, but in other ways they were somewhat or very conservative. Kennedy was basically a centrist, as the 60 election was really a centrist vs. centrist race. McKinley was a pro-trust company republican. And Lincoln was very religious, very non separation of church and state.

[mobuto]

5. No, the conspiracy targeted James A. Garfield.

We all know that They got Garfield just like They got Kennedy and Ron Brown and early-1990s Latin rock sensantion, Selena.

Garfield was actually a pretty decent President; his successor, Chester A. Arthur, was absolutely terrible.

[Layman]

17. What exactly does,"Kennedy was basically a centrist' mean?

THE SECOND BIGGEST LIE
by Michael Morrissey
The biggest lie of our time, after the Warren Report, is the notion that Johnson merely continued or expanded Kennedy's policy in Vietnam after the assassination.
Sometime after that Kennedy told O'Donnell again that
"...he had made up his mind that after his reelection he would take the risk of
unpopularity and make a complete withdrawal of American military forces from Vietnam. He had decided that our military involvement in Vietnam's civil war would only grow steadily bigger and more costly without making a dent in the larger political problem of Communist expansion in Southeast Asia" (p. 13).

[Layman]

18. What exactly does,"Kennedy was basically a centrist' mean?

THE SECOND BIGGEST LIE
by Michael Morrissey
The biggest lie of our time, after the Warren Report, is the notion that Johnson merely continued or expanded Kennedy's policy in Vietnam after the assassination.
Sometime after that Kennedy told O'Donnell again that
"...he had made up his mind that after his reelection he would take the risk of
unpopularity and make a complete withdrawal of American military forces from Vietnam. He had decided that our military involvement in Vietnam's civil war would only grow steadily bigger and more costly without making a dent in the larger political problem of Communist expansion in Southeast Asia" (p. 13).

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. I agree that Kerry needs a progressive VP for a number of reasons

...but I have to admit this is one that didn't even make the list. However, it definitely applies to the McCain argument ;)

[wasichu]

7. you are right

they killed Carnahan, Wellstone and possibly JFK jr.
They wouldn't hesitate if McCain was VP.

[genius]

11. Right. Also who would we want to take over if something happened

We certainly don't want to come this far just to give the country back to the right wingers.

[WI_DEM]

8. I'm not convinced

of the accuracy of your argument. A good example is Mckinley being replaced by the more liberal/activist TR. also it is, imo, debateable if JFK was more liberal than LBJ.

[genius]

10. McKinley was a Republican. The Republicans weren't behind it.

Normally, these days, it's the Republicans who are running around with the guns and doing violent things.

[AntiCoup2K4]

12. Lincoln was a Republican as well.

But I certainly wouldn't call John Wilkes Booth a Democrat (at least not how I understand the term)

[dolstein]

9. You're assuming that a ticket with two liberals can win

NT

[Festivito]

13. Would Kucinich give us Ohio?

If so, that would be so much fun.

Hey, I was rooting for Edwards. But, Ohio, Ohio would be worth even the chance.

[JohnKleeb]

15. it could

I'd like either Edwards or Kucinich tho I see the latter as unlikely but it would be cool.

[Hippo_Tron]

20. Honestly, no

As much as I like Kucinich, he won't bring Ohio with him.

[Classical_Liberal]

14. Good point.

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