Then I’m going with a general: Jack Keane would be excellent.
Lieberman is 73 years old. That’s not ancient.
I just think it would signal exactly the wrong thing to people like me. I’d leave him over that. Lieberman is strong defense, but huge social programs and abortion support and climate change and on and on.
He has to win over the “ask not what I can do for my country, but ask what can my country do for me” independents. Those are the people who pushed Obama over the top.
Social and fiscal conservatives like us, unfortunately, make up a very small percentage of the electorate. Trump is running on that platform to get the nomination. In fact he is running hard right on that platform and he will, unfortunately, not be able to run that hard right in the general.
Trump is being “expedient”. Is he better than anything the democrats have to offer? Well, Satan would be better than Hillary or Sanders. But they are going to appeal to the “ask not what I can do for my country, but ask what can my country do for me” democrats and independents. Trump has to get some of them. Reagan had to take GHWB along for the ride.