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Kerry To Run As McCain’s Veep in 2008?
Talk abounded during last year’s presidential campaign about Sen. John Kerry sounding out Sen. John McCain about joining him as his running mate.
Now there are rumors of another bipartisan ticket in 2008 - McCain for president and Kerry as his running mate.
“If such an improbable thing comes to pass, its genesis might well be traced back to a one-on-one breakfast meeting July 27, when the two decorated Vietnam veterans huddled for more than an hour at La Colline restaurant on Capitol Hill,” reports the publication The Hill.
Kerry spokesman David Wade said the meeting was simply a chat between two “longtime friends.”
But fellow diners said the pair was engaged in earnest conversation throughout the meal, according to The Hill.
The meeting came as McCain increasingly criticized President Bush’s conduct of the war on terrorism, in particular the treatment of detainees at prison camps in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
McCain spent years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam - an ordeal chronicled in this month’s issue of NewsMax Magazine, which features the exclusive report “Inside McCain’s Head.”
The Hill concludes: “Guess it’s unlikely there will be a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign if McCain and Kerry team up in 2008.”
[www.newsmax.com(](www.newsmax.com() insider report)
Talk abounded during last year’s presidential campaign about Sen. John Kerry sounding out Sen. John McCain about joining him as his running mate.
Now there are rumors of another bipartisan ticket in 2008 - McCain for president and Kerry as his running mate.
“If such an improbable thing comes to pass, its genesis might well be traced back to a one-on-one breakfast meeting July 27, when the two decorated Vietnam veterans huddled for more than an hour at La Colline restaurant on Capitol Hill,” reports the publication The Hill.
Kerry spokesman David Wade said the meeting was simply a chat between two “longtime friends.”
But fellow diners said the pair was engaged in earnest conversation throughout the meal, according to The Hill.
The meeting came as McCain increasingly criticized President Bush’s conduct of the war on terrorism, in particular the treatment of detainees at prison camps in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
McCain spent years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam - an ordeal chronicled in this month’s issue of NewsMax Magazine, which features the exclusive report “Inside McCain’s Head.”
The Hill concludes: “Guess it’s unlikely there will be a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign if McCain and Kerry team up in 2008.”
[www.newsmax.com(](www.newsmax.com() insider report)
