MGP and I were discussing the possibility that John McCain would choose Senator Deputy Dog for his Presidential ticket, completing Lieberman's all-but-official conversion to Republicanism. this would probably satisfy some sort of McCain the Maverick and Bipartisan media obsession in one swoop, leaving the press writing homages to the wonders of two independent minded senators working in a bipartisan fashion to ensure...the destruction of the planet as we ephing know it (and not in the slow painful, global warming sort of way).
The idea that the two biggest war cheerleaders and success-mongers (no two men have claimed success more times over the last four years, save Dick Cheney) are some sort of ticket which should be lauded and worshipped is an example of the simple minded nature of the bipartisanship worship that goes on in the DC press corps. In reality, Joe Lieberman is an Independent (lone representative of the Connecticut for Lieberman party). He was allowed to keep his seniority by an umimpressive Senatorial Democratic leadership after being booted from the party by its members in his home state. He won re-election by winning a large majority of Republican votes in the general election who voted tactically to keep Ned Lamont out of the Senate. Since then, he has alienated his core constituency of Democrats and Independents in CT (and probably elsewhere) with his non-stop, sanctimonous support of the war. Polling in CT shows that if voters had to do it over again, Ned Lamont would have won an 8% victory in CT including a plurality of Independents.
So my response to a McCain-Lieberman ticket? Please, please, please, please, please. Obama is already polling ahead of McCain among Independents (alienated, no doubt, by his recent pandering and continued war support). Another former "maverick" war supporter isn't going to help with those voters.
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