Funk Babblings

I'm not really anti-Clark like nontacitare, but I tend to agree with her that Kerry probably doesn't need what he brings, at least not in the VP slot. (Sec of State would be good though.)

I don't think primary votes matter for the VP. The veepstakes never comes down to "who got more primary votes"; it's fairly rare for the VP to be one of the primary compatitors anyway. Also, exit polls showed lots of people liking Dean better but voting Kerry because they thought he had a better chance of winning, and their biggest concern was getting rid of Bush.

Obviously I disagree with your assessment of Dean, for many reasons I won't go into now, but the fact that you do hold that opinion is important, since you're probably not the only one.

And actually it is too much to ask for either party to field a candidate that any particular person actually likes; the country is so diverse that the final 2/4 candidates are necessarily a compromise. This is what the Naderites fail to recognize. (Along with the fact that the two-party system is a direct result of our system of voting, rather than a conspiracy of those parties.)