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McCain/Clinton '08 ?
Jon Stewart brought it up the idea of a McCain/Clinton ticket to McCain on the Daily Show last night and McCain appeared speechless for a minute. The more I think about it, the more that it occurs to me that, at least from a marketing perspective, it's a brilliant idea and one that would probably succeed.
It would be a true hands-across-the-aisle move and since both senators have spoken so highly of each other (for the most part), it doesn't seem like that much of a stretch. I would think that it would be appealing to both candidates and my gut feeling is that the American electorate would embrace the idea.
Am I crazy or, is there a seed of genius in this?
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Comments (5)
I'm going to go with (a) crazy. For every Clinton supporter this might encourage to vote for McCain, it'd keep 10 times as many Republicans at home. I think you are seriously underestimating the (unwarranted) hatred for her coming from the Republican base. Sure, certain conservative pundits have been suspiciously singing her praise recently, but the rank-and-file still hate her.
May 8, 2008 8:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think you have it exactly right Ben.
May 8, 2008 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well I suppose this would be one sure way to keep the Republican base at home.
May 8, 2008 8:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
it would be a pretty good combo actually....
on another note: I am a bit of an amateur ethnographer, and am passingly familiar with a few hundred distinct ethnic groups, and intimately with a few dozen. Today I saw a gypsy family, and I thought, oh, there is at least one ethnic group I regard more dimly than African-Americans. Mind you, I haven't yet been to Africa proper, so I am sure Hutus etc etc are even scarier and less worthy of respect, as groups anyway. But the gypsies are not loved by anybody in Europe, although I know several Americans who get all weepy because the Slovaks and Romanians aren't nice to them. Well, for good reason. A people who believe work is dishonorable, but that stealing is honorable? Believe me, not nice poeple to have as neighbors. At the other end of the spectrum would be Slovenes. Polite, educated, cosmopolitan, gracious, disinclined to violence, and athletic to boot. Serbs are are also great people, a lot more outgoing than the Slovenes, but when they congregate in a crowd they tend to start jabbering like monkeys (see "Kovoso"). Greeks are overly haughty, and to dumb to realize they are just hellenized Slavs, and any people that cheer when foreign diplomats are assasinated doesn't get my high regard. You see, broad generalizations about different groups of people can be reasonably made. And unfortunately, African-Americans are just not very nice, broadly speaking. Although I will not that Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans can be pretty nasty much of the time, oh and American Jews are by and large a disgraceful bunch. Entirely unlike Israeli Jews, at least the kind who serve in the military, and not the fruitcake settler type.
May 8, 2008 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
The level of hate that conservatives have for Hillary is really high so I agree that this joint ticket would just destroy the Republican party and keep their base at home in the fall.
May 8, 2008 10:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
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