http://rightsfield.com/2007/03/28/mccain-almost-bolted-in-2001/ Holding Our Noses So You Don't Have To Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:35:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://rightsfield.com/2007/03/28/mccain-almost-bolted-in-2001/comment-page-1/#comment-1944 Emboldened » Blog Archive » Kerry: McCain Asked To Be My VP Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:57:03 +0000 http://rightsfield.com/2007/03/28/mccain-almost-bolted-in-2001/#comment-1944 [...] I posted on The Hill story last week. McCain’s staffer John Weaver played a significant role as the middle man in negotiations with Democratic Senate leadership in 2001. But trying to switch parties and retain seniority is slightly less of a transgression than petitioning the opposing party’s nominee to join his presidential ticket so as to run against your party’s sitting president and vice president. Singer writes: For many Republicans, it has been bad enough that John McCain has voted and worked with Democrats against the majority of Republican Senators on a number of occasions in recent years. For Republicans, I would imagine that reports that he approached the Democrats about leaving the Senate GOP caucus in 2001 represent a borderline unpardonable offense. But it seems that reaching out to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to talk about running on that party’s ticket would be tantamount to the highest form of political treason to Republicans. [...] [...] I posted on The Hill story last week. McCain’s staffer John Weaver played a significant role as the middle man in negotiations with Democratic Senate leadership in 2001. But trying to switch parties and retain seniority is slightly less of a transgression than petitioning the opposing party’s nominee to join his presidential ticket so as to run against your party’s sitting president and vice president. Singer writes: For many Republicans, it has been bad enough that John McCain has voted and worked with Democrats against the majority of Republican Senators on a number of occasions in recent years. For Republicans, I would imagine that reports that he approached the Democrats about leaving the Senate GOP caucus in 2001 represent a borderline unpardonable offense. But it seems that reaching out to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to talk about running on that party’s ticket would be tantamount to the highest form of political treason to Republicans. [...]

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