Team Players
The Senate Republicans that face challenging races in 2006, for the sake of their Senate careers, are hoping that John Kerry wins. And it works the same way for the Democrats, since Bush will likely implode after a 2004 victory…
No. Strike that. Because even if they lose, they’d easily find their way into powerful lobbying jobs, which is where the real action is.
If Clinton, or for that matter Gore, had been the one rumping us to war in Iraq, the Democrats would more or less fall in line (even further during, and not run estranged after), and there would be more Republican dissension.
But, the nature of the foreign policy debate more or less bunches itself up with the Lugar-Biden axis being the “moderate center”.
Where does this get us?
I once read speculation that if President Johnson had picked Eugene McCarthy for veep, as was on his shortlist, we’d have had McCarthy as the pro-war establishment candidate in 1968 and Humphrey would’ve weaved his way into the anti-war establishment.
New slogans instead of “Clean for Gene” and “Dump the Hump” would’ve had to have been made.
This goes back to how upstanding a citizen Bob Kennedy was… look carefully to what he was up to with his buddy Joe McCarthy.