Kucinich Wants Ron Paul as Running Mate?

This blog entry at the Plain Dealer gives me a headache:

“I’m thinking about Ron Paul” as a running mate, Kucinich told a crowd of about 70 supporters at a house party here, one of numerous stops throughout New Hampshire over the Thanksgiving weekend. A Kucinich-Paul administration could bring people together “to balance the energies in this country,” Kucinich said.

I can’t think of two candidates who are more diametrically opposed among the official pack of candidates for both parties’ nominations. Imagining them attempting a viable candidacy on the same ticket just seems….incomprehensible.

Now, if they were running for the White House as a protest campaign, in an effort to gain publicity for the notion that there are ideas beyond those codified in the Donkeys’ and Elephants’ platforms, and seeking to instill a little diversity in viewpoints into American politics, I could see an argument being made for them to run together. (I think it’d be slightly more effective if all the “major” third parties temporarily pooled resources to run a semi-viable, non-nutty fusion candidate, however.)

However, such a stance would presumably almost instantly boot them from the ranks viability in the eyes of the media.