Why the Obama-Clinton Ticket Will Never Happen

I've written before that I don't believe for multiple reasons the so-called "dream ticket" will ever happen . Politico offers five pretty solid reasons why they believe it'll never happen:

Below are five reasons the speculation about her running for vice president is nuts. Here’s a link to five other reasons it may not be.

1. Obama is too cool. Clinton, hauling carts of baggage from three decades in public life, would undercut the most fundamental appeal of Barack Obama’s candidacy: freshness, change, transformation. At the personal level, Obama’s signature trait is a kind of sublime self-confidence. He does not like her, and he’s not going to be bullied into taking her because the press or party activists say he has no choice.

2. Clinton is too proud. Clinton rightly thinks of herself as an independent political force with an international reputation. Future possibilities for her include trying to be Senate Majority Leader, and governor of New York, along with possible 2012 or even 2016 presidential candidacies. What’s more, she does not respect Obama or his readiness to be president. Why would she diminish herself by taking a position that is, by constitutional design and practical reality, all about subordination and taking hits for the team?

3. They would lose. In 1992, Bill Clinton and Al Gore — two young Southerners with moderate reputations — reinforced each other’s strengths. Clinton-Obama, by contrast, would combine two polarizing figures who reinforce each other’s vulnerabilities. Republicans would get a head-start in November by adding all the people who have for years said they would never vote for Clinton to those who since the Rev. Jeremiah Wright episode and others have more recently said they would never vote for Obama.

4. They would win. It’s looking like a Democratic year, and Obama is not thinking about the next six months but the next eight years, and what it would be like with the Clintons roaming around his presidency. Lyndon Johnson supposedly said of anyone who worked for him, “I want his pecker in my pocket.” Hillary’s independent power base means that Obama would never have hers in his pocket, for reasons that go beyond human anatomy. And, to put it mildly, he would not have Bill Clinton’s in his pocket, either.

5. Too much rainbow. In some ways, the coverage of the Democratic race and the way Obama and Clinton both quickly raced to the front of the pack have dulled people to just how much both the candidacies of a black man and white woman will challenge old prejudices among many voters. Obama, knowing the burden he carries, will be looking to reassure people who can accept some change but not too much. He’ll be looking for a white man who has served as a governor or who has unquestioned national security credentials, such as former Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni.

After reading the above I'm almost hoping they go ahead with the dream ticket. It certainly wouldn't work as well as some of the dreamy-eyed Dems think it would.