A COALITION forged merely to enable a presidential ticket is sure to be untenable. In such a merger, negotiations may have relied on some kind of compensation based on the electability of a presidential candidate or a political party. This is particularly the case if the pact is linkedas rumor has itto a cash transaction under the guise of a contribution or campaign cost-sharing. There is pragmatism in that, but as the misanthropes would say, it