[Vision2020] Kerry's VP Selection

[Donovan Arnold]

Mr. Shou writes:

"Edwards' upsides? Edwards has the highest positives, lowest negatives, and
highest name recognition of any of those who were shortlisted for VP, 
excluding
longshots Richardson and McCain, both of whom said that they weren't in the
running. He's got a good background, a fantastic stump speech, and he's 
better
off-the-cuff than anyone in public life since Bill Clinton."

Yeap, and a boring guy that places himself against a highly energetic person 
is going to look even more boring. Politics 101: Don't pick a runningmate 
that is going to make you look boring, stupid, sick or old. Kerry just did 
that.

I also want to point out that this is not a popularity vote for President. 
The electoral college wins the election. Edwards and Kerry are not bringing 
in any new electoral with this ticket combo. This election may even end up 
269-269 resulting in it going to Congress and the Senate. Then I will have 
to explain that process to everyone again and watch the FOX News give out 
misinformation on how Presidential selection process works in case of a tie, 
or someone failing to get 270 electoral votes.

In terms of your silly comments, I could care less which party(s) nominate 
Bush, I still would not vote for him and that would be irrelevant to most 
voters except you. I originally wanted a Hillary/Clark, or Clark/Richardson 
ticket.

I think a Kerry/Edwards is not the best we could have come up with and makes 
the election more about Iraq and Afghanistan then before.

I have a Kucinich Ticket on my car. This the problem with the Democratic 
Party. Members refuse to listen to common sense and reason, instead they 
attack the person, this is why we are the minority in the County, State, and 
Federal Governments despite the fact that there are millions more Democrats 
in the nation than Republicans. Democratic strategy is really bad.

Donovan J Arnold
Political Scientist


>From: Andreas Schou <scho8053 at uidaho.edu>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: RE: [Vision2020] Kerry's VP Selection
>Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:30:16 -0700
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Donovan Arnold <donovanarnold at hotmail.com>
>Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2004 10:41 am
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Kerry's VP Selection
>
> > That is to bad I really wanted to beat Bush in 2004. But at least
> > now we
> > know Hillary has a clear shot in 2008 and we will be ready for her
> > by then.
> > Kerry is such a sport for the Clintons.
>
>Bizarre. I'm beginning to wonder if you'd just prefer if GWB changed 
>tickets and ran as a Democrat.
>
>Edwards' upsides? Edwards has the highest positives, lowest negatives, and 
>highest name recognition of any of those who were shortlisted for VP, 
>excluding longshots Richardson and McCain, both of whom said that they 
>weren't in the running. He's got a good background, a fantastic stump 
>speech, and he's better off-the-cuff than anyone in public life since Bill 
>Clinton.
>
>His downsides? Well, he's more moderate than I am -- I'm more in line with 
>Dennis "Moonbeam" Kucinich, but, hell, when it came down to it, not even 
>/I/ voted for him. Also, he looks like a used car salesman.
>
>-- ACS
>
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