“Why the heck did they pick John Kerry? I am pretty sure even at the time, Lieberman would have proven a better competitor against Bush, easily.”
Because he was some kind of veteran? I don’t know; northeasterners don’t do well in national elections, so either would probably have lost.
Lieberman was a decent debater. Your first assessment on wanting war veteran credentials may have had a point, but Kerry was boring as a debater, for starters, he had this awful habit of labeling specifics for groups of people he planned to serve. Bush and Lieberman have yet to demonstrate that kind of peeve. I’m not sure how much the whole Rathergate played out, but it certainly was over the top to begin with for me. I mean, isn’t saying that a guy served stateside enough to prove a point? Guess not.