Eric Alterman has an interesting idea (one I’ve seen elsewhere).
In my brief veep discussion yesterday, I left out the actually ideal choice — even including Edwards — which would be John McCain. Can you imagine? McCain’s recent voting record is closer to Kerry’s than to his party’s leadership and the man does hate Bush’s guts. It would be an enormous roll of the dice for both men but extreme times call for extreme measures. McCain would have to quit the WMD intelligence panel, for which he would be pilloried, but hell, he could do a lot more for the nation’s intelligence capabilities as part of an administration that would not declare war on the CIA and reveal the identity of its agents just because they were not willing to lie on its behalf.