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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jerrel Peters who wrote (385157)	4/3/2003 6:55:29 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769667

Kerry-McCain rumors still flying: from MJ article: The partnership [between Kerry and McCain] is so tight, in fact, that insiders in both camps are speculating about the pair teaming for a 2004 presidential ticket, according to a source close to the buzz -- even without McCain switching parties, as Beltway rumors have previously hinted. As one well-placed Democratic strategist says "Kerry and McCain together would form an almost nonpartisan 'unity ticket' that would keep the attention on Vietnam heroics, something sorely lacking in both Bush and Cheney." Mind you, the move wouldn't be wholly unprecedented; at the height of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, tapped Democrat Andrew Johnson for a running mate. When I [MJ reporter Jonathan Miles] ask Kerry about the prospect, he doesn't nix it. "I've seen enough in my life to know tomorrow can be a completely different world from today, and I think John McCain would tell you the same thing," he says. "I wouldn't rule out or rule in most anything, other than you learn to do what feels right in your gut." And although a McCain advisor dismisses the idea as "summertime chatter," McCain recently shouted, "Kerry for President," as he was leaving a Washington luncheon in their honor -- perhaps a clue, or perhaps a glib wisecrack Wow. If Kerry and McCain ran together in 2004, I don't see how they could be beat by Bush and Cheney. All the out-dated "Massachusetts Liberal" gobbledygook that the GOP would try to hang on Kerry would vanish, especially if McCain did not change parties. And, oh boy, what a way for McCain to get a bit of sweet political revenge for Bush's below the belt campaign tactics in the 2000 primary!