A winning strategy:

Forget McCain for Veep. Forget trying to inspire voters with a "vision." Forget about having to come up with a plan to salvage the Iraq War. Forget worries about charges that the Democrats "want a bad economy to run on." John Kerry can win the 2004 presidential election if this happens:

One of the non-conservative justices on the Supreme Court resigns this summer.

Even Nader supporters who are troubled by Kerry's foreign policy stance (mostly over Iraq) will have to sit up and pay attention. Instead of dealing with the possibility of a justice resigning and a re-elected Bush nominating a Scalia-clone, it would be a reality that, to use the expression, "concentrates the mind."

Will it happen? Probably not, but it is fun to speculate.

posted by Quiddity at 5/16/2004 12:06:00 PM