On Aug 31, 2004, at 8:11 PM, Bryon Daly wrote:
If not the pres nomination itself, do you think McCain has a chance to get a
Republican VP offer?
One can only wish. I'm certainly not Republican but I would definitely have voted for him in 2000, had I had an opportunity. (I voted for Nader, but not in a state where it mattered anyway. Which might be all 50! ;)
I don't see it happening. He's stumping for Dub now but I'd be looking more closely at Giuliani shooting for the chair in '04. If that were to happen McCain *might* get the veep nod but I still wouldn't count on it. The Repubs have swung so far into religion lately that I can't imagine them being very tolerant of any deviation from their rapidly-narrowing definition of what's acceptable.
It's unfortunate. Lincoln was an unbelievably progressive president. To hear him mentioned in the same breath with Reagan -- and without a trace of irony -- set my teeth on edge. The US's agrarian areas are (IMO) being a little too heavily represented in government lately -- by which I mean that apparent policy does not seem to align with what the true majority would favor -- and had we had a demographic like this one in the 1850s, the South might not have needed to secede to keep its bigotries intact.
-- WthmO
George W. Bush: Putting the 'dense' in presidency since 2001. --
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