Lieberman: I won’t be McCain’s VP

Daily News Tribune ^ | Apr 04, 2008 | Mike Gannon

[Caipirabob]

Lieberman: I won’t be McCain’s VP

Not liberal enough for McCain?

[Non-Sequitur]

I would be willing to bet that Lieberman’s lack of interest evaporates just as soon as McCain approaches him with an offer.

Why should it? The moment he accepts a spot in McCain's cabinet his career in electoral politics is over.

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Not buying it. I think McCaine would think this a super strategy, to run a fusion ticket.

Lieberman was a Veep candidate once. Why would he want to do it again? And suppose he accepted, then what? He could never run for the presidency on his own, could never go back to the Seante, it would be the end of his political career.

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Please tell me McCain is talking to John Bolton? for something? SOS, preferably, but UN Ambassador would be fine, too.

You want us to lie to you?

[Jimmy Valentine]

Lieberman is no baby either. Too the chance to be Veep for an older actuarially challenged McCain might be attractive. Also he is an independant and this would be a huge poke in the eye to the Rats that threw him out of the party.

I think that he could go for the last hurrah.

I think also that a McCaine/Lieberman ticket could win; right in the moderate middle, outflanking both left and right.

Sleep on that one if you can; makes me toss and turn.

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Too the chance to be Veep for an older actuarially challenged McCain might be attractive.

Lieberman is also 66, not that much younger than McCain. What better way to accent the age of the man at the head of the ticket than nominating someone eligible for social security along with him? McCain will nominate someone in their 50's if not 40's.

[Jimmy Valentine]

That would be the smart play.

We are dealing with the "Maverick" John McCain here, however.

Any way, it is going to be one hell of a year!