The Post on the Kerry-Gephardt Ticket

For those who missed it, the Daily News is having a good time with the "exclusive" from the New York Post that Kerry had selected Dick Gephardt as his running mate. The best quote: “The mistake makes the New York Post look foolish, and all it shows is that one should not trust the New York Post, a conservative Republican paper, on inside matters of the Democratic Party.”

According to the AP,"Post editor in chief Col Allan said in a statement that he made the decision to go with the Gephardt story based on information that turned out to be inaccurate." Really??

Early reaction to the choice has been mostly positive--and for good reason. While I still think Kerry would have been well served to have at least considered thinking outside the box (Mary Landrieu, for one, was someone I thought would get more attention than she did), Edwards seems to me a much better fit for the ticket than either Gephardt or Vilsack--Vilsack because he was poorly known and hasn't ranked as one of the nation's top governors in any case, Gephardt because, in both the 2002 midterm elections and then his 2004 presidential bid, he didn't exactly demonstrate a widespread appeal.

The interesting question: will Democrats, as occurred in 1968 with Humphrey-Muskie and in 1988 with Dukakis-Bentsen, conclude the campaign wishing that the order of their ticket was reversed?