Play with your ticket.

Just thinking out loud about the electoral college.

Dodd - Tom Harkin.

Dodd - Bill Nelson.

Clinton - Wes Clark

Clinton - Evan Bayh

Obama - Janet Napolitano

Obama - Chris Dodd

Edwards - Kathleen Sebelius

Edwards - Russell Feingold

Biden - Bill Richardson

Biden - Barack Obama

Richardson - Ed Rendell

Richardson - Jim Webb

Kucinich - Julian Bond

Kucinich - Max Cleland

Gravel - Sheila Jackson Lee

Gravel - Alexis Herman

Gore - Bill Bradley

Gore - John Kerry

Gary Hart - Jim Webb

Gary Hart - RFK Jr.

Mario Cuomo - Bill Moyers

Feingold - Jean Carnahan.

Wisconsin and Missouri.

will be no one on this earth who could prevent him from making his own choice for veep.

We afford even hard-fought close delegate conventions first-choice, so I'm guessing Gore would have the greenest of green lights.

Bayh and Tim Kaine

that you don't see Ed Rendell in a positive light.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and John Lewis.

Give me a rationale for a Ralph Nader candidacy versus a ticket with those two on it.

A bit soon for Strickland, granted, but nevertheless he's a hell of a good man. A lot of demographic punch to that ticket, IMO.

Just threw that one in there for fun.

be a lot closer to the truth.

What a bone-shakingly scary duo those two are.

I don't see anyone on any of those tickets I wouldn't look forward to voting for.

And if any Republicans get in my way in the line to vote, they'd better just watch their hindends, cuz I was there first.

Good match-ups, Katzenkavalier.

Since he's your candidate, let me say to you that there would be an opportunity -- whether in the presidential or vice presidendtial debate -- when U.S. viewers and world viewers would tune in to hear what Barack Obama had to say. There would be -- I'm predicting here -- an enomorous, record-breaking viewing total for the first debate he's in if he's on our ticket.

People would be rooting for him.

He's a man who'd have that considerable wind at his back, and fortunately for all of us, he has the talent to furl that broad sail. I pity a fool like Mitt Romney who would find himself face-to-face with the real thing some night on a televised debate being piped into every home and office on the globe.

That would be a damned good night to be a Democrat.

Tennessee (DC) & Wisconsin

Whiskey & Cheese:beer:
Country Music & Cheese :nopity:

Gosh, doesn't everybody love cheese?:9

Not to mention they are both very honest, conscientious, concerned & respectable men.:patriot:

This is one of those nights.

Feingold announced a while back that he would not seek the 08 presidency. His supporters were understandably dissapointed, but respected his decision.

Gore is keeping his powder dry. His would be a late entry but nothing he's said absolutely slams any door for a run.

That's good politics, old-fashioned, coy, eye-winking, tongue-in-cheek, might-and-might-not politics. I like it. I admire it. It's fun, too.

Maybe Feingold's announcement came after a phone call from a Gore lieutenant calling from someone else's office not even in Tennesse but nevertheless representing Al Gore in a quite official capacity. The gist of the call was that if Feingold would not seek the White House, he'd be the vice presidential nominee on a Gore ticket, likely to launch in late October.

Feingold agreed to the terms, held the press conference, withdrew from consideration, and is waiting for the leaves to turn colors in the next 3 or 4 weeks.

Gore, meanwhile, wins the Nobel Prize. A week later, a press conference, perhaps in front of Constitution Hall in Philadelphia, perhaps at the foot of Mount Rushmore, perhaps on Canal Street in New Orleans. Unknown to the media, Russ Feingold hops a flight out of Madison to Louis Armstrong Airport in New Orleans and is introduced by now-Presidential candidate Al Gore to the audience. "If I win nomination in Denver, I want Russ Feingold to be my running mate, and I'm telling him and you that up front!"

The crowd is screaming with elation at this point.

With Feingold Gore competes for the same demographic in Florida that he had with Lieberman, but without the Lieberman rightwing baggage.

With Feingold Gore also secures the left-of-center vote and eclipses a Nader incentive to run as an independent.

And with Feingold we turn Wisconsin a deeper blue, with spillover into Minnesota for Wellstone supporters.

It would be a brilliant ticket, southerncrone.

it could happen!

And Hillary & Obama would give them all the money they have raised.

Obama becomes Secretary of State,
Hillary becomes Attorney General,
Kucinich becomes Commerce Secretary,
Edwards becomes Secretary of Labor,
Biden becomes Secretary of Homeland Security
Richardson becomes Secretary of Energy (again)
Dodd becomes Secretary of Education
Wes Clark becomes Secretary of Transportation (that's gonna be a biggie in the future!)
Ron Paul becomes Treasury Secretary (just to piss of the REpukes)
Robert Kennedy, Jr. becomes Secretary of the Interior
Gravel becomes Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
John Kerry becomes Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Vilisak becomes Secretary of Agriculture
Howard Dean becomes Secretary of Health & Human Services

All the candidates would have important positions & they DO their jobs.
The United States becomes a decent country again & we live much happier ever after!
Amen.

Dreaming IS fun!

my vote, no question. Vilsack for Ag? Yep. That works.

Veterans would do a hell of a lot better with Kerry than they have done for years.

It's dreaming, as you say. But it's good dreaming.