Friday, June 11, 2004

The Veep Shortlist Gets Shorter

There goes the best chance of having an interesting election season. John McCain (R-Ariz) has personally rejected John Kerry's (D-Mass) non-invitation to the VP slot on the Democratic presidential ticket. According to the AP, Kerry did not actually offer McCain the job, so that the rebuffing wouldn't make it look like the eventual VP is a second choice. How anyone comes up with that logic is beyond me.

A Kerry-McCain superticket never really had a chance. What I've heard of John McCain doesn't sound like someone who would be content to wake up every morning and ask if the President is OK. Nonetheless, having a bipartisan presidential ticket was a good fantasy while it lasted.

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