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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (11942)	4/3/2004 11:28:59 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Biden endorses a fusion ticket: Kerry-McCain Democrat's 'Hardball' comments likely to fuel new speculation By Mike Stuckey MSNBC.com Politics Editor Updated: 1:06 a.m. ET March 17, 2004One of the presidential nominating season's most unusual ideas was proposed again Tuesday, this time by one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, when Sen. Joseph Biden advocated a "unity" ticket of Democratic Sen. John Kerry and Republican Sen. John McCain. Biden made his comments on MSNBC TV's "Hardball" when moderator Chris Matthews asked him: "Do you think McCain is seriously — and I mean this professionally — flirting with the idea of accepting a second place on the ticket with John Kerry, and creating a fusion ticket to run against the president?" Replied Biden: "I think that this is time for unity in this country, and maybe it is time to have a guy like John McCain — a Republican — on the ticket with a guy he does like. They do get along. And they don't have fundamental disagreements on major policies." The red and the blue When asked by Matthews if he would support such a ticket, Biden said, "I would. Yeah, if John Kerry said that's who he wanted, and McCain — I'd encourage McCain to say yes. I doubt whether John would do it. I doubt whether John McCain would do it. But, you know, we need some unity here, man. The red states and the blue states — we've got to have something to coalesce around here." The notion that a lifelong Republican like McCain would join the Democratic ticket is widely dismissed by many Washington observers, but McCain himself fanned the flames when he said last week on an ABC News show that he would "entertain" joining Kerry on the Democratic ticket. msnbc.msn.com

To: redfish who wrote (11942)	4/3/2004 11:36:08 AM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Thank goodness for McCain. He is correct; the party has gone astray. If McCain leaves the GOP, I will too. (Maybe I will leave anyway, I no longer feel wanted). Best to all.

To: redfish who wrote (11942)	4/3/2004 12:09:37 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Whenever McCain goes on a truth telling mission, he gets threatened by the Republican right. They threaten to go after his Senate seat in Arizona. I respect him a lot and I would hope that he would follow the lead of Pat Buchanan and go out and seek his political friends who agree with his political philsophies, which in this case is Kerry. Let us not give up yet on the Kerry-McCain ticket. Kerry has to carry those Democrats sitting on the fence are are likely to fall off the fence on the Nader side when they hear about McCain. Once Kerry secures the Nader leaning folks in the Democratic party, he needs to explore the possibility of a Kerry-McCain ticket. Thes two have served the country well in the past and now they are required to rescue the nation from the onslaught of the neo cons and the extreme right, the axis of evil I "Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz"