Biden-Lugar

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Friday January 02, 2004 · 5:52 AM PST

2004/01/02 · 05:52

The way I heard Biden-Lugar explained on the Dean blog, it required Bush to certify there were WMD in Iraq before invading. If he certified WMD had been proven, then invaded and no WMD were found (which is what happened), that would have been impeachable. That is, instead of talking about sending Bush back to Crawford, we'd be talking about sending him to jail. It also explicity forbid Bush from hopscotching from Iraq onward to other mideast countries the way he apparently planned to do before the Iraq operation got bogged down.

At that time, UN inspectors were still in Iraq and it was very plausible that they might find something. Biden-Lugar was an entirely appropriate thing to support. The blank check that Bush got instead was an outrage.

Is Kerry running for VP? continued

clyde

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Tuesday December 30, 2003 · 9:28 PM PST

2003/12/30 · 21:28

I forgot to mention in the below post: it's based on the idea that Clark has already offered the VP spot to Kerry and they are cooperating behind the scenes. Remember that Kerry wanted the #2 spot from Gore pretty badly in 2000, and was on the short list, which means that Gore's campaign already did the necessary vetting. (Because of the need for vetting, Dean could NOT have made a similar offer to Clark).

Clark's claiming Dean offered him the VP slot then sounds like classic Republican projection. If Clark says Dean offered the slot to Clark, it really means that Clark offered the slot to Kerry.

Is Kerry really running for VP?

clyde

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Tuesday December 30, 2003 · 9:23 PM PST

2003/12/30 · 21:23

Kerry's relentless attacks on Dean coupled with his vanishing poll numbers and his self-financed campaign (home mortgage) make it sound to some like he's really running for VP under Clark. Kerry does the dirty work, Clark stays above the fray, Clark gets the nomination and taps Kerry as running mate, and Kerry For President somehow gets folded into Clark/Kerry 2004 in a way that pays off Kerry's campaign debt. Kerry is going to keep chewing Dean's ass in state after state no matter what his own poll numbers do, because it's Clark's numbers that he's actually trying to prop up.

Does this make sense to anyone else? Am I missing something?

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