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VP-BLOGGING.
- First off, the First Read post that got everyone so excited about Jim Jones yesterday also had another strange candidate that nobody talked about and I just noticed today: John Kerry. Yes, really. I mean, short of Robert Byrd can we really imagine a worse possible choice?
- Chris Cillizza has a nice post making the case for Kathleen Sebelius.
- And Obama's top vetter, Jim Johnson, steps down over concerns about his ties to the mortgage industry.
--Sam Boyd
COMMENTS (4)
You can't even imagine a worse possible choice than Robert Byrd? It seems to me you aren't trying very hard there. I started to play the game and then I said, nahhh, shooting fish in a barrel.
Posted by: Cervantes | June 11, 2008 3:44 PM
Jim Jones? The ads write themselves. At the very least, you just know Rush et. al. would love it.
Posted by: ajw_93 | June 11, 2008 3:53 PM
Kerry actually struck me as better than some of the names on the list. At least he'd be a reasonably good president. Sam Nunn struck me as the bottom-of-the-barrel candidate. And while I'm very happy to have him in the Senate, I'm no fan of a Jim Webb selection either.
Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf | June 11, 2008 6:22 PM
Yeah, Kerry also has that "don't you wish you could vote against Bush" thing going for him. He's not my A-number-1 choice (Sherrod Brown!), but Kerry's a perfectly solid liberal and he'd probably be more effective as an attack-dog VP than he was as a statesmanlike top dog. Kerry's blueblood calm is actually a pretty useful counterpoint, aesthetically, to the harshness of his rhetoric when he attacks.
There are a number of other, much worse names on that list. Neil picks out the worst of the worst, but there's also Mark Warner (DLC corporate hack), Ted Strickland (pro-life), and Evan Bayh (android Republican).
Posted by: DivGuy | June 12, 2008 8:09 AM