From: Gene McAloon 

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:55:28 +0200, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>She is also a woman, and the last time I looked there were a few of those
>around in the USA.
>
>As a running mate, she would be uniquely able to stand up on the eve of
>polling day and ask the mothers of America whether they ever again want
>their sons and daughters sent abroad to die for Halliburton.

No presidential candidate is his right mind is going to allow himself to be
upstaged by a running mate and that is precisely what would happen if she
were on the ticket.

That she might attract the women's vote is possible, but that would be
outweighed by the male votes Kerry would lose if she were the running mate.
This
country doesn't begin to be ready for a woman vice president a heartbeat
away from the presidency. This isn't the UK or Europe. In some respects,
this country
is far too conservative, far too Neanderthal in its beliefs, to accept a
woman president.  It is not just the far-right that would be foaming at the
mouth either. The whole of the South might want to secede again.

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