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A Vietnam Vet Ticket?
Glenn asks, "Can Max Cleland deliver Georgia as a VP nominee?"
I don't think so. He couldn't win the state on his own, as an incumbent. How could he pull a northeastern liberal across the goal line?
Posted by Rand Simberg at February 10, 2004 06:00 PM
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Well, this weeks fixation on Bush's military record should make any attempt by JF***Kerry-Ketchup to choose a non-combat veteran as VP nearly impossible. And except for great-grandfathers who served in Korea or earlier, who else among the Democrats is going to qualify?
Posted by Raoul Ortega at February 10, 2004 07:52 PM
If Kerry picks someone with a military background, he could opt for someone who was 17 years old or less - too young to have fought in Vietnam - at the time that the US pulled out in 1973.
Posted by Alan K. Henderson at February 10, 2004 11:55 PM
Speaking as someone from Georiga: Cleland couldn't carry Georgia. Since Cleland was Secretary of State what was a Southern Democrat has become a Republican. Georgia has elected a Republican Governer and a Republican Senate. Cleland decided that he wasn't a Southern Democrat anymore and followed the other half of the party into loony-lefty land. Even most veterans in the state think he's lost it.
Posted by Michael Mealling at February 11, 2004 07:10 AM
Cleland is about as far-out a liberal a Vietnam vet as Kerry could find, short of cloning himself.
Posted by McGehee at February 12, 2004 09:11 AM
Rand, you might try googling the archives of talkshow host Neal Boortz's website, for details of Cleland's fall from grace in Georgia. boortz.com
Posted by The Sanity Inspector at February 13, 2004 08:27 AM
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