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I agree that Kerry needs to include Republicans. What he really should do is get a few cabinet members who are old school Republicans - conservatives who believe in fiscal responsibility, a realist foreign policy, the transatlantic alliances, and civil liberties. This country is extremely polarized, and a Kerry administration will have to govern a country in ruin with a likely hostile Senate and House. Uniting the "old guard" of the Republicans with Democrats IS possible, especially as a reaction that both have to neocons and the Bush administration.
I do say this as a bleeding-heart liberal. Personally, if I had my way, the most conservative members of Congress would have ideologies resembling Dick Durbin's. Nonetheless, I think that as leader of this country, Kerry would do well to try and unite it, even if it means staying a little too far to the right.
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