Hell, I come up with a nice Machiavellian scenario re Hillary and the VP slot and then she goes and ruins it by making nice with the guy. These people are really starting to piss me off. Somebody better start using real bullets here or I'm just gonna turn the TV off - they don't deserve my scorn, bloody make the world a better place liberals.
Of course my scenario really a stretch to begin with - it would have required Hillary being stand offish for an uncomfortably long period of time while the whole VP selection process wore on, which would not have played well. Although, does she really need to be rude here? Scenario could still play out even with her pretending to be nice, possibly better that way - but did read this morning an Obama insider saying Hillary has to show 100% support or risk shouldering the blame should the Chosen One lose in November, so maybe they're on to her game, if she even has a game - other than doing all I can to ensure a Democratic win in November - so bloody boring. Any troll can toss bread at fish. [what does that mean?]
Still, imagine a McCain/Clinton ticket. Sure it's absurd - but you could rationalize it in an irrational, counter factual sort of way, and then it becomes somewhat revealing. You'd have to figure out if the moderates, independents and disgruntled liberals McCain would reap would make up for the reams of conservatives he'd lose; you'd have to figure out a convincing explanation for Hillary which would be something like 'I'm really a moderate realist who was forced to run too far to the left by the activist dictates of the Democratic primaries, these freaks could never accept that I voted for the war, they all hate the military etc etc'; you'd have to make the case, probably not hard to do, that a McCain/Clinton ticket does in reality what Obama can only talk about - true bipartisan unity; and you'd have to figure out a way to explain to those conservatives who don't immediately run out and shoot themselves why such a move will renew the GOP.
Of course McCain could possibly achieve all of that and avoid the toxic effects of Clintonism by simply naming Sam Nunn as his VP. Or how about Mark Warner? Wesley Clark? Give the ticket a real Roman militarist feel...
