Opinion: Why Democrats should recruit a Republican vice president for their 2020 ticket (via latimesopinion)
I have had many brilliant political ideas. There was my failed campaign to eliminate the penny, my mildly successful plea for people to send me letters to stem the Post Office’s budget losses and — as you undoubtedly remember from the 2000 Republican convention — my winning argument that the delegate from Utah introduce her state as “Utah: the only state that starts with U.”
By choosing a Republican, the Democratic nominee would be putting country over party. They’d be offering a huge sacrifice to sew together our divided nation. They’d be saying that as crucial as Democrats consider healthcare, global warming, gun control, sexual harassment, abortion and that robot-job apocalypse , it’s more crucial to save democracy. Because if we continue our march into autocracy, we won’t be able to address any of those issues.
“If a bill to protect a women’s right to choose comes to a tie vote in the Senate, would Marco Rubio vote how President Democrat wishes, or his own views? Would Jeb Bush go to Capitol Hill and lobby for President Democrat’s key healthcare legislation?” the person asked. “Your position makes sense if blue versus red is a color war, but if policies matter, you can’t ask voters to put into power someone diametrically opposed to them.
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