Igor Volsky
Marist College
McCain Flip-Flops on 2004 Kerry-McCain Ticket

Tonight, in a response to Governor Mitt Romney’s assertion that he considered a VP slot on the Democratic ticket in 2004, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) assured MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews that he quickly rejected the offer. But in a July 7, 2004 interview on Fox News Radio’s The Tony Snow Show, McCain claimed that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) never offered him the slot.

SNOW: Right. But, so- I want to just lay to rest once and for all: never approached you, never hinted that he wanted to talk to you about being vice president. All that kind of stuff was made up.

McCAIN: Well, I cannot attest to that. All I can tell you is my conversations with him were private conversations, but he never offered it.

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