a possible McCain-Lieberman ticket?

[Alura618]

John McCain and the Neocon Resurgence by Philip Giraldi of Antiwar.com

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=12345

 

[Max Stirner]

Lieberman was quoted in US News & World Report as saying categorically that he will not run as VP. It might seem more plausible if maybe he equivocated or was vague, but he said flatly that he'd done it before and had no interest in doing it again.

A lot of it, I think, depends on how much of a ruckus the social conservatives make over him through the rest of the primaries, he may be better off taking on Huckabee or someone else with more credibility in those parts. If he can't mobilize the gays/guns/god crowd, let alone excite them, he's in some serious mess. With the right mix though, he could play the fear card like Bush did in '04 and use the sitting president to his advantage (imagine the effect if the terror alert, for example, is raised periodically through the election and we have a sitting president threatening World War III or IV or whatever it is now).

I'd expect him to be a major force in the McCain campaign, maybe even a cabinet post or something if McMurder won though and absolutely a strong voice of the Likudist Israelis.

 

[jmdrake]

I doubt McCain would be that stupid, but if he did I wish Ron Paul would rethink a 3rd party run. McCain HAS to reach out to the Republican base. Joe Lieberman won't help him with moderate democrats because he wasn't able to even win his own party's primary. THE issue in this race is the Iraq war. With 64 percent of Americans still against the war McCain is at an automatic handicap. The conservative base will NOT endorse a ticket with Joe Lieberman as VP in a million years. I suspect Romney will be the VP pick for McCain. I believe that's the real reason Romney suspended his campaign. But we shall see.

Regards,

John M. Drake

 

[ike]

I wouldn't be surprised if McCain's VP had an accident and McCain appointed Lieberman as a replacement after the election.

It doesn't matter.

McCain won't be elected.

 

[James Madison]

I think if that happened the GOP would explode.