Posted on 12/01/2014 10:13:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. John McCain, incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he has told the White House that former Sen. Joe Lieberman should be the next secretary of defense.
McCain made the suggestion when White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough contacted him seeking a recommendation.
The Arizona Republican told The Washington Post he doubted that President Barack Obama would take his advice and choose Lieberman to replace current Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who announced his resignation last week.
Lieberman, a Democratic senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013, was Vice President Al Gore's running mate in the 2000 presidential election and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination in 2004.
In 2008, however, Lieberman endorsed McCain, the Republican nominee, over Obama, and he has been sharply critical of Obama's handling of foreign policy....
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That was years ago.
Obama would choke on this idea, it’s a nice little barb.
One thing about McCain...he is very loyal to his close friends.
No. He should be a top adviser to Secretary of State.
? I don’t think so.
Wrong. John McCain, I think you’re going insane.. John, for the sake of everyone, including your sanity, please shut up, serve the rest of your term and go out to pasture, sweetly remembering how life was like when you had a brain. Thank you...
PS: Please take your brain dead daughter with you....
Loserman? And Juan was pimping his girlfriend Linda Graham the other day.
Who does he think he is—Gandalf the Gray? Eff him and the daughter he rode in on.
Correct.
“John McCain:”
As soon as I see that, I experience total brain freeze. I don’t care what he says. He needs to get a clue and retire from public life. Go be a dithering spacey old man. Be done with yer bad self.
War hero, sure. Valuable public “Republican” figure, no. Go away dude. Good GOD I am looking forward to the possibility of retiring. Why don’t these people feel the same way?
Reminds me of that creature Ginsberg. Is dementia a requirement for the Supreme Court and our Blessed Govt Servants?
Oh, yeah, McCain’s first choice for his ‘08 running mate.
I’m just surprised that he didn’t recommend Sen. Graham.
I’d be happy with Lieberman as Sec of Defense, he’s pretty good on defense.
But he’d never take the job under the current anti-American regime.
(And it would never be offered to him by same, either...)
As a senator, Lieberman was often described as a "centrist" (or a "moderate"). But that is a bit misleading. In fact, it is almost akin to Mark Twain's observation that a man with one foot in a bucket of ice water, and the other foot in a bucket of boiling water, "is, on average, comfortable": Mere averages can sometimes misrepresent the truth.
In matters of domestic policy, Lieberman was a fairly typical liberal. But in matters of international policy, he was a staunch conservative. And as Secretary of Defense, he would be involved solely with the latter.
He knows Cruz is right, that wacko bird.
Ted Cruz already said that.
Ted Cruz is smarter than the whole Republican GOP-e combined.
John Bolton should be Secretary of State.
War mongering neocons are NOT "staunch conservatives". It's not 1967 or 1951. The statists are the ones who want perpetual war and empire. And that's exactly what Lieberman is. He's an awful human being.
Face, meet palm.
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