Joe Lieberman is being vetted as a Vice Presidential running mate for John McCain, and it seems to be an option that McCain is seriously considering.
Noted Duran Duran scholar Kathryn Jean Lopez says that Rush Limbaugh no likey:
If John McCain picks Joe Lieberman as his running mate, he would "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory," as radio talk-show king Rush Limbaugh put it in an e-mail last night.
Obviously, I have an elaborate nightmare where Joe Lieberman gets the VP nod, McCain wins, then dies -- and we're looking at a President Lieberman. At which point I and a host of others bloggers who supported Ned Lamont wind up in Guantanamo Bay.
Now I may just be engaging in extraordinary cynicism here. But over the years, I've watched Arlen Specter set himself up as conscience of the Senate and rail against the administration's abuse of executive powers, at which point everyone invests him with the moral authority to adjudicate the situation and then he lets 'em off the hook. And I worry that Kathryn Jean and the Sacred Sperm Patrol are being likewise suckered.
Because despite railing against Lieberman on his Friday show, I have a feeling Rush can be swayed:
Limbaugh also said that if the McCain was the nominee, it would "destroy the GOP," so we know that these things aren't set in stone.[Lieberman's] really gutsy, I think, because he's bucking his own party, he's standing up to his own party, standing up to Jack Murtha, standing up to the media, standing up to all the left out there and basically giving them the facts, and giving them reason and logic, and they don't want to hear it because they're invested in defeat. Lieberman is talking victory and these people don't connect with that. It's not in their lexicon.
Of course, Joe made NARAL and Planned Parenthood look like putzes last week by saying that he was "wrong" and Alito is a great judge, so it may not be a simple case of Rush jujitsu -- Holy Joe may be getting ready to meet him half way and see the light on choice. His past antics include telling rape victims to take a "short ride" to another hospital that provides emergency contraception if a Catholic hospital receiving public funds decides they don't want to offer it, so he's obviously willing to go all wobbly on choice when it suits him.
McCain announces his VP choice in Ohio the day after Obama's Invesco speech. My showbiz gene says he announces that his choice is Lieberman, the media goes bananas over the narrative of Joe being the Democratic candidate in 2000 and the Republican choice in 2008, and just as Obama puts the gloves on, McCain steals his bipartisan thunder. And more importantly, his convention bounce.
Yes he needs the fundies, but John McCain is a media creature and the temptation for all that hot monkey press love is just too juicy.
I sure hope this is just my dark thoughts getting the best of me.
Because I do not look good in orange.
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Lieberman and the two headed turtle
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/08/21/joe-lieberman-and-the-two-headed-turtle/
Choose one or the other ...
Trust me ... the rethugs know that their r a s c i s t base would run screaming!!!
This way he will be able to protect Israel.
It'd be fun to see Lieberman get the VP spot just to see Limbaugh reverse himself yet again.
Go Ombama...
Step one: nominate McCain - 'There goes the neighborhood!'
Step two: select Joe Lieberman as VP - 'The neighborhood is now totally ruined!'
This sounds like a plan, except a lot of people will be moving into that neighborhood.
I Think Joe Lieberman is supporting John McCain because Israelis want to wipe Palestine off the map? The next place we will be sending our military to fight and die will be Israel.
And since McCain depends on Joe to keep things straight for him he will do whatever Lieberman tells him to do.
I think that I have figured out John McCain's strategy to defeat Obama. John McCain has been touting the nation's Judeo-Christian values a lot lately. He's going to select Joe Lieberman in an effort to paint Obama as a Muslim v. the Jew and the Christian. This appeal will likely win Florida for McCain and it will also likely prop up the Christian right.
Rather then stay home and remain true to their beliefs, or vote for a better candidate, they will vote for McCain, even knowing McCain has a lifetime of history of lying when it is convenient for his purposes. He changes his "principles" in a heartbeat.
"Maverick" can sound like a desirable trait, but the truth is..."Maverick" can be just another word for being unreliable, contrary, inconsistant, self promoting self interests...when it suits him.
McCain has lied his whole life to cover up wrongs. It's a pattern. Adultry, Keating Five, Confederate Flag position, Bush tax cuts, getting a marriage licence to marry Cindy before he was even divorced from his cripple wife Carol...on and on...to as recently as in this campaign...and even in a CHURCH to a MINISTER at the Saddleback Forum about being in a 'Cone of Silence"
It will be interesting to watch the Religious Right overlook this "sin" and flock to the voting booth to vote for who they know to be a panderer for their votes.
In McCain's own book he admitted that in 2000 he only ran for President because of HIS OWN AMBITION, nothing more.
/sarc off