Eight years ago, former Bush Cabinet insider (from the administration of Bush I) Dick Cheney was selected to head up the vetting process of selecting a Vice President candidate to run with Governor George Bush. He ended up being the VP choice himself. We may be seeing a historic replete of this process with Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg.
Many people are upset that the first serious woman candidate for president has failed, and just barely, to obtain the nomination. The Clintons badly want her to have the VP slot, however, as former President Carter has pointed out that would be a terrible choice. While she does well with working class voters and women, she has the highest negatives of any of the candidates who sought the Presidential nomination this year. The political history of Bill and Hillary is very "checkered" to say the least. After all, Bill Clinton was only the second President in American history to be voted an indictment of impeachment by the US House of Representatives.
Caroline Kennedy, on the other hand, would be a totally fantastic choice. She is both an outside Washington "change we can believe in" person, yet one linked to the Kennedy Camelot years. She is, in fact, the last of the Camelot children after her brother John's death. She would appeal to women, to young people, to working class voters (the "bread and butter" of the Kennedy political machines for over 40 years), to Catholics, to Jews (her husband Edwin is Jewish), to all of those of us 50 and above who remember the Camelot years. Caroline is a well educated attorney and editor with an American background linked to both far better times and to a America that has traditional high moral standards. She is Jack and Jackie's daughter and heir.
Her selection would be a totally fantastic choice that would electrify the coming election.
Stirling
