VP Prediction

Tim Wirth. You heard it here first (or maybe not).

Actually, I think Edwards is the most likely pick, but I'd guess Wirth after that. Then Clark. All the others that people are talking about have (IMO) negatives that outweigh their positives. (That means whopping negatives to outweigh Bill Richardson's almost as whopping positives.) Clark's got strong negatives, too, but I think his positives are stronger.

The deal with Wirth is that, in addition to having a good resume for the job and being liberal (less than Kerry used to be, more than Kerry is presenting himself as now), Kerry should see him as trustworthy. He was a very good friend of Heinz's. He's a Westerner, which will matter some. And (sad that this matters) I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be a second Catholic on the ticket.

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I've been posting comments at dKos lately. This one is important enough to me that I'd like comments on it, either here or in the dKos thread.

My post was in response to someone who said (in response to someone who isn't me)

Dude, honestly, I'm there with you. I find Kerry disgusting, but not so much him personally as he's done many admirable things in his life and his career. I find modern politics and political discourse disgusting, and he represents all that I can't stand about both Demmycrats and most people in this country who don't care about their government or about their role as citizens. I know that most of this is projection, so I'm only really pissed at him for the Iowa hatchet job on Dean. Of course, I never really expected any more of him.

It's become clear to me now that, angry as I am, upset and literally crying like I was when Dean finally dropped out, that no one really gives a damn. As everybody keeps saying, the only important thing is to get Bush gone. I never believed that, but the vast majority of others apparently do. I've given up on anger venting, since no one's listening, and all it does is make me feel worse.