Posted on 04/05/2008 8:58:16 PM PDT by Red Steel
NORWICH, Conn. — U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said Friday he has no interest in being vice president on the McCain ticket or in accepting a cabinet post should the Arizona Republican win the presidency in November.
“I’m not supporting John with the hope of getting anything else,” Lieberman said at a meeting of the Norwich Bulletin’s editorial board Friday afternoon. “When I decided to endorse him I didn’t think he’d win (the Republican nomination).”
Lieberman, a former Democrat who sits with the Senate’s Democratic Caucus, has endorsed McCain and has campaigned extensively with him.
He has been widely rumored as a candidate for a cabinet position or some other high-profile post should McCain get elected.
Lieberman said he believes McCain will win in November. He said the senator has the history of reaching across party lines, something Lieberman said will be necessary for the next president given what he said is the current level of partisanship in Washington, D.C.
“I consider John to be a very conservative Republican, a common-sense conservative Republican,” Lieberman said. “When he thinks he can work with Russ Feingold, D-Wis. on a campaign finance reform bill, he goes out and does it.”
He also said McCain, who will turn 72 in August, has the stamina and strength to handle the rigors of the office.
“I’ve been on trips where much younger senators ask to rest,” he said.
Thank you Sir … the ultimate liberal speaks. ;-)
At least a liberal hawk.
Neither will I.
Yep, a liberal (pos)hawk. ;-)
I would be willing to bet that Lieberman’s lack of interest evaporates just as soon as McCain approaches him with an offer. They have no problems outright lying about anything or weaseling out of previous statements.
I guess the Republican Governor Jodi Rell won’t be replacing Senator Lieberman with a Republican Senator instead (not that a probable RINO Republican replacement would truly be that much better than present Senator Lieberman).
Whew!
IMHO the Obama candidacy has reached a critical mass. That does not mean I think he will win the general election, quite the contrary - but I do think that he will win the Democratic nomination, or at least undercut the value of the Democratic nomination to anyone else (Hillary).Either way, I see his supporters' grandiose enthusiasm for Obama's possibilities as a hazard to the country when (not, IMHO, if) they are brought down to earth. I see tremendous schismatic potential in it - and in the crisis I also see opportunity. The opportunity to change the paradigm.
What the country needs now is for the Republican Party (read, John McCain) to have the vision to defuse the race issue by nominating a conservative black for VP. Someone who will model the sort of patriotism which Obama holds in contempt - and also become the story after Obama's candidacy is old news. If, as I suppose, the choice is between
Black Republican Elected VP andBlacks Riot over Obama Defeat I think we should pray for the former.
i am praying that somehow God would influence mcCain to pick a true conservative.
Please tell me McCain is talking to John Bolton? for something? SOS, preferably, but UN Ambassador would be fine, too.
not very likely. but it sure would be nice to see a lot of true conservatives in decision-making government positions.
It’s high time McCain delineate his proposed foreign policy nominees (as the assumed POTUS).
Don't enable the GOP, vote conservative third party.
Not buying it. I think McCaine would think this a super strategy, to run a fusion ticket.
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