This will not be asurpriseto my regular readers, but I want to make it clear and official:Republican Senator John McCain should be John Kerry's Vice Presidential running mate on the Democratic ticket. John McCain crossing the aisle has been a "pipedream" of mine for some time. Well, why should it only be a fantasy? I am certainly not alone on this. Below is what Richard, the author of The Peking Duck, has to say on the matter.
In normal times the idea of a split ticket would be absurd. But these aren't normal times, and some real out-of-the-box thinking is called for. It still sounds like a fantasy, with a hundred reason why it's not practical. But stranger things have happened. It would almost certainly spell a Kerry victory and ensure the end of the Bush dynasty. It's a truly thrilling notion.
But there are some real heavyweights in political Blogland who also don't see this as such a crazy idea, Kevin Drum is one, and Andrew Sullivan is also tooting the horn, and Thomas Friedman recently wrote: "Most of all, I want to wake up and read that John Kerry just asked John McCain to be his vice president."
These are folks with a lot of readers between them. So why don't we all get serious and start an active movement in the Blogosphere and get this train up and chugging for real?
Help Save Our Democracy: McCain For Vice President on the Democratic Ticket!
