John Kerry's VP Choice.

[rpf113]

Assuming Kerry wins the nomination, who would be the best person to be his VP?

[spooky3]

1. RPF113! You became a contributor just to do polls, right? :-)

[rpf113]

5. How'd you guess?

I should be a pollster.

[rpf113]

2. I think...

I think Kerry/Clark could be a dream team match up.
But will Clark take the veep spot?

[Democrats unite]

8. No!

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[mouse7]

3. Joe Trippi.

Trippi is the Kerry campaign MVP. He's looking for work. Looks like a perfect match.

[dontstopthere]

4. i think you should include more people

...like Cleland

[rpf113]

6. Edwards voters...

Why would Edwards be better than Clark?

[One Taste]

9. I don't necessarily think Edwards would be better..

I just don't think Clark would accept vp

[DjTj]

10. Kerry already has the military/gravitas vote...

Edwards would add the votes of working class Americans.

Clark would do okay there too, but the Southern working family is Edwards' bread and butter.

[spooky3]

13. LOL on your signature!

[DjTj]

22. That post just cracked me up, so I had to put the pictures side-by-side...

...Ashton was on Leno tonight too, but they didn't talk politics...

[PROGRESSIVE1]

7. Why is Jesse Helms on this list???

This is a joke, right???

:eyes:

[IndianaGreen]

19. The only way to balance a ticket headed by Kerry

is to put Jesse Helms as a running mate.

That's my guess!

[TheWebHead]

11. where's Hillary?

I'd guess Edwards 1st, but Hillary a now willing second now that Dean appears out of the picture.

[On the Road]

12. None of the Above

If the question is who WILL Kerry choose, it will probably be no one on the radar. Were Cheney, Lieberman, Kemp, Gore, or Quayle being talked about before the announcements?

[Bombtrack]

14. Please edit your post to add Bob Graham, because that's who he should pick

I've heard several prominent strategists say that that would be Kerry's strongest choice by far.

He needs Graham to be his LBJ, Edwards to be his Bobby Kennedy

[isbister]

18. I agree

although Hillary would be fun... ain't going to happen but the republicans would love that :-)

[LibDemAlways]

15. Anybody old enough to remember 1972?

McGovern was perceived as a loser and when his first choice for VP, Thomas Eagleton, imploded over a mental health issue, no one wanted the second spot. Finally Sargent Shriver agreed to do it, knowing full well it was a lost cause.

If and when Kerry sews up the nomination, the repukes and the media will have several months before the convention to bloody him.
The attacks will be relentless. Expect to hear the following: lifeless, uninspiring, wooden, grim, stiff, French, liberal, Northeasterner, Dukakis, betrayed his fellow soldiers when he returned from Vietnam - therefore unpatriotic - repeated thousands of times. Rove's goal will be to turn him in to a national joke by the time of the convention. Of course this goes for any candidate, but with Kerry, Rove has a lot of material. If nominee Kerry becomes seriously damaged goods before the convention, he may find himself in the same awkward circumstance as McGovern.

[OneBlueSky]

16. forgive me, but I just don't understand what people see in . . .

John Edwards . . .

[jsw_81]

17. I think Edwards is awesome

But I don't want to see him on the ticket this year. Bush and the Republicans are going to be screaming 24/7 about national security and terrorism, and unless we have a ticket with strong foreign policy credentials (e.g. Kerry/Clark), we're going to lose. Remember, the "soccer moms" are now called "security moms." We must have those votes in November!

Edwards is still young and will have his big chance later on. Maybe he'll serve as U.S. Attorney General (if Kerry wins) or Governor of North Carolina before seeking the presidency.

[Dr Fate]

20. Clark- a Southerner and also military...

...Kerry/Clark would be quite a match against the "other priorities" ticket...

[Adjoran]

21. You left out

the one guy liable to actually help the ticket: Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, former Secretary of Energy, former UN Ambassador, former Congressman.

He's my #1 pick for VP no matter who the nominee is.