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| Kerry tried to give McCain VP and Sec of Defense (as one job!) |
| 2004-11-06 |
| What did Newsweek know — and when did the magazine know it? Barely 24 hours after the polls closed Tuesday, the newsweekly came out with its special election edition, chock-full of fascinating behind-the-scenes tidbits culled by a team of reporters during the lengthy campaign. Included with all the little anecdotes (Teresa Heinz Kerry is a royal pain — duh!) was at least one major political bombshell. After clinching the Democratic nomination, Newsweek reports, John Kerry was so desperate to enlist GOP Sen. John McCain as his running mate that he made an "outlandish" offer: He'd expand the role of vice president to include the duties of secretary of Defense. Moreover, Kerry — seeking the presidency in a time of grave international danger — promised to put McCain in charge of all U.S. foreign policy should they win. "You're out of your mind," McCain reportedly told Kerry. "I don't even know if it's constitutional." John Kerry clearly is not out of his mind — and nobody will ever confuse him with a constitutional scholar. No, one lesson here is that he is so utterly devoid of moral fiber that he'd trade away the heart and soul of the presidency in order to win the office in the first place. Faustian doesn't begin to describe the rank ambition behind this proposed bargain: Kerry simply had no soul to sell in the first place. Truly, America dodged a bullet this past Tuesday. |
| Posted by:Sherry |