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Title: Lieberman ‘on McCain short-list’
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Financial Times
URL Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4af34942-65a1-11dd-a352-0000779fd18c.html
Published: Aug 9, 2008
Author: Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
Post Date: 2008-08-10 18:33:48 by Rotara
Keywords: mcCain, lieberman
Views: 156
Comments: 12
Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic vice-presidential nominee who has endorsed John McCain, is being vetted as a potential running mate for the Republican presidential hopeful, according to an adviser to Mr McCain’s campaign. Mr Lieberman, who has campaigned for the Arizona senator, has long been considered an unconventional but plausible choice for Mr McCain. Although Democrats have rejected Mr McCain’s image as a maverick politician, Mr Lieberman’s support for the presumptive Republican nominee has, much to the chagrin of his former colleagues, helped to boost Mr McCain’s reputation as a bi-partisan legislator with friends on both sides of the aisle. Mr Lieberman, a staunch supporter of Israel, could also help Mr McCain win over Jewish voters. “[McCain] loves Lieberman. And he is on the [short-]list because Lieberman has never embarrassed anyone, never misspoken. The first rule is, don’t take someone who costs you votes,” said one McCain adviser. But not everyone would be enthusiastic about Mr Lieberman being added to the ticket. While Mr Lieberman has staunchly defended Mr McCain’s support of the surge, the escalation of US troops in Iraq, and the lawmakers have teamed up on legislative proposals to combat global warming, the registered independent is aligned with Democrats on most other issues. “Conservatives would be pissed as hell – I think you would have a revolt, but sometimes John does what John wants to do,” the McCain adviser said. Another McCain adviser said that it was unlikely that the Republican candidate would base his decision on “tactical considerations”. “He can be pragmatic, but on the biggest decisions he tends to favour his instinct for the bigger picture,” the adviser said. Mr Lieberman’s office declined to comment. But when the senator was asked recently whether he would decline a request by Mr McCain he said: “It’s not going to happen”. Mr Lieberman has left open the possibility that he would speak at the Republican National Convention, a move that would probably ensure that Democrats would strip him of his chairmanship of the committee on homeland security. Democratic leaders allowed Mr Lieberman to caucus with them in the Senate even after he left the party to become an independent, because it gave the party control of the Senate. However, most analysts agree that if, as expected, Democrats win more seats in this year’s election, Mr Lieberman will be forced out of his coveted role on the committee. Speculation surrounding Mr McCain’s short-list of potential nominees has so far focused on Republicans, including Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and his rival for the Republican nomination, Tim Pawlenty, the governor of Minnesota, and Rob Portman, the former Ohio congressman. The McCain campaign declined to comment.
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#1. To: Rotara (#0)
I really think this plays well in Peoria. No joke about it, unfortunately.
Lovely. McKooK is trying to trump the multiculturalists with a recycled Jew. We lose despite who wins. Egad....bring on football!
They'll try to screw that up next via a draft. I hope I'm wrong, but I see a draft on the horizon. Approaching fast.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Are you serious? Maybe Peoria and maybe New York and Florida but not in the rest of America. McCain alone has a tough time winning GOP voters' hearts but if he teams up with Joe Loser Lie-berman (Indep.-Israel), my gosh, Obama will win a landslide. If McCain picks Joe out of the trashbin of US losing tickets, then I am convinced that the GOP wants the Dimwits to win so Obama and the Dims inherit all of Junior's bad baggage for the next 4 years.
This is a really complicated election cycle, and the fact that McCain won the GOP delegates for the nomination so easily is my main consideration. I'm not hearing much in the way of anti-Zionist criticism, I'm sorry to say. Listen to conservative talk radio this week and see what you think. The nuclear terror card is being played very well, and that Israel always benefits is the last thing mentioned in these circles. It's may be too easy for us to think that people see the obvious.
I just had a rather dee-licious thought. Suppose Loserman, I mean Liberman, is selected. What, oh what, will all those Freepin idiots do? How do they get around all those Loserman signs back in 2000--especially in Florida? ROTFLMAO at the thought!!! Wonder if there are any pics of those signs still floating around--especially on the Freepin idiots home pages!
Turn your back on the sun and you only see the shadows.
I think that Lieberman should be the VP on both tickets, since he fits equally well on either one.
Rivers of blood were spilled out over land that, in normal times, not even the poorest Arab would have worried his head over." Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
A draft is just what we need to wake these MTV kiddies out of their slumber. Of course O'Bummer could sell them ice in the winter, so who knows if they'll know they're getting screwed.
A Universal VP for the World Citizen! I like that.
How do they get around all those Loserman signs back in 2000--especially in Florida? ROTFLMAO at the thought!!! Wonder if there are any pics of those signs still floating around--especially on the Freepin idiots home pages! Just as fat hannity shoved his tongue in lieberman's mouth, so to would rimjob and his National Party traitors-in-tow if joe's the veep-date. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Fobama/mcCain '08
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
When this entire region is lit up, you can bet there will be. Or, the NAU will be able to draw on los latinos to do the fighting I suppose. ;-) "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#2. To: All (#0)
Lieberman
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
Egad....bring on football!
#4. To: buckeye (#1)
I really think this plays well in Peoria. No joke about it, unfortunately.
#5. To: scrapper2 (#4)
#6. To: scrapper2, Jethro Tull, All who were at TOS1 a few years back (#4)
#7. To: Rotara (#0)
#8. To: Rotara (#3)
#9. To: historian1944 (#7)
I think that Lieberman should be the VP on both tickets, since he fits equally well on either one.
#10. To: rowdee (#6)
I just had a rather dee-licious thought. Suppose Loserman, I mean Liberman, is selected. What, oh what, will all those Freepin idiots do?
#11. To: historian1944 (#7)
I think that Lieberman should be the VP on both tickets, since he fits equally well on either one.
#12. To: Jethro Tull (#8)
A draft is just what we need to wake these MTV kiddies out of their slumber. Of course O'Bummer could sell them ice in the winter, so who knows if they'll know they're getting screwed.
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