No way will it be Gephardt

Kerry’s much ballyhooed meeting with Richard Gephardt, putatively to see if the Missouri representative would make a good vice president, is nothing more than a stage play for Big Labor. “Hey, I wanted him on the ticket but we just didn’t mesh.”

Gephardt is too old school, too Washington, and – worst of all by far – he served in the Air National Guard during Vietnam. Man, Vietnam is the only thing that Kerry’s got going over Bush and he’s not going to let Gephardt take it away. Not a chance in Hades.