With this revelation, McCain stands about as good a chance in the GOP primary as Michael Moore.
But as a Democrat, and former Kerry supporter, I'd like to know more about this. Specifically, WTF Kerry was thinking if he said no? A Kerry/McCain ticket would have been a sure winner.
Maybe McCain demanded certain things Kerry didn't feel he could deliver in good conscience? But as pathetic as McCain looks in 2007, in 2004 he would have been a silver bullet straight through Bush/Cheney's heart. I'd really like to know what went on there. If Kerry is going to make revelations like this, he owes those of us who worked so hard and gave so much to get him elected president a fuller explaination.
And why is Kerry making this revelation now?
The ticket might have been a winner, but the marriage could never have worked. McCain would have been up on the Hill breaking ties against the Administration position.
Also, have a wingnut Veep would have made President Kerry's future in office pretty shaky.
Yes, there is winning, but what exactly would we have won having someone so untrustworthy in the WH? Kerry had a good chance and he came pretty damned close with Edwards on the ticket. Although on paper, McCain may have seemed good, how would even the campaign worked when McCain is clearly hawkish, whereas Kerry was already eyeing the exit door for Iraq, once diplomacy took foot? Would there have been infighting during the campaign? Anonymous quotes about Kerry's "indecisiveness", which is what McCain called him in '04. I realize that loss hurt, and it's easy to think about what could have been done differently, but I see disaster had McCain been on the ticket, knowing what we know now about his lack of integrity.
It's also worth considering that McCain would have provided endless amounts of copy for the 'divided Democrats' meme
