Posted on 01/08/2007 7:55:13 PM PST by freespirited
In the spring of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry made overtures to Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican, to be his running mate. ...
Will McCain, now a leading contender for the 2008 GOP nomination, borrow Kerry’s idea and offer the vice presidency to Joe Lieberman, Connecticut’s self-styled “independent Democrat”?
The McCain-Lieberman duo showed a warm camaraderie Friday during their joint appearance at the American Enterprise Institute, where they both called for a substantial increase in the number of U.S. troops...
The McCain-Lieberman duo has worked closely in the past on several issues:
* In 2003, they co-sponsored the Climate Stewardship Act to limit emissions of global warming gases by electric utilities, industrial firms, and refineries.
* They were leading members of the “Gang of 14,” the bipartisan group of senators who devised a way to avert a fight over judicial filibusters that would have shut down the Senate in 2005.
* They have been two of the prime movers in Senate efforts to restrict donations to political campaigns. The duo led the push for military intervention by the United State in Kosovo in 1998.
“Joe Lieberman and John McCain's moral leadership in Congress helped make it possible for Wesley Clark to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo,” said Jano Cabrera in 2004, when he was Lieberman’s’ spokesman.
With the caveat that it's far too early for this type of speculation, birds of a feather do flock together,” Cabrera said. “And in a nation as politically polarized as ours, a bi-partisan maverick ticket could be incredibly formidable.... But before we all start counting our independent chickens, there would also be a significant downside: a pro-war, pro-surge ticket. Barring a radical turn of events in Iraq, I can't imagine 'Vote Hawk' serving as an effective rallying cry in ‘08.”
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Sure. Perfect ticket for the Democrats in 2008.
Yes, as independents, preferably for leaders of Elbonia.
It makes about as much sense as a Clinton Obama ticket. Sadly Joe Lieberman is the only one of the 3 I trust. (at least he's consistent)
Not gonna happen.
Not unless McCain jumps parties. Lieberman is a dyed-in-the-wood Dem.
yeah well, when the opposition is any combination of Hillary/Obama/Richardson/Edwards - what are you going to do?
it would help us and kill Hillary. This would require Hillary to resort to pollium 210
"Does a McCain-Lieberman ticket make sense? "
It's a perfect ticket if you are Hillary and this is a third party.
That would be a Godsend. Hillary, can you hear me? Suicide is your best option.
LIEberman will NEVER join the GOP and probably wouldn't accept a V.P. post.
This is just ridiculous conjecture.
Maybe, after taking enough LSD a lot of things make sense, ask Dr. Timothy Leary.
Not for Republcan...maybe DEmocrat.
...when monkeys fly out of Terry McAwful's butt.
I heard today that Clinton bought the John Edwards domain name. If you click on Johnedwardsforpresident.whatever you get redirected to a Hillary Clintoon site.
Dumb and Dumber
So somebody can be consistently liberal, and therefore you'll trust him? I don't understand what you have against Hillary - she's as consistent (in her liberalism) as any Democrat.
Yes, LIEberman is consistent....consistently a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar lefty with a disgusting, whiny voice, who
has no principles, no spine!Trusting Joe, is foolhearty, at best.
It makes about as much sense as a Giuliani-Lieberman ticket for the GOP, or whatever that moron John Podhoretz was pushing in the New York Post after a few pulls on a bong last summer.
That's a ticket that would piss everybody off, Dems and Pubs!
It doesn't make sense, but it wouldn't surprise me to see a push for something like that.
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