Orion: “The Conneticutt governor is a Democrat and I can’t think of a single Democrat in Conneticutt who he’d nominate to replace Liebermann not to the left of Che Gueverez.”
Actually, the governor of Connecticut is a woman, Jodi Rell, and a Republican. So, I think we could count on her to select a Republican replacement for Joe Lieberman in the Senate should the need arise. Senator Lieberman is a rarity in American politics of the liberal variety these days. He is a decent, honest, thoughtful man who is neither ego-tripping, nor power-hungry, and who consistently puts the welfare of the country first. For those reasons, I’m honored that he is one of the senators from my state (the other appears ever more like an escapee from a work by Hogarth). That said, I entirely disagree with virtually all of Sen. Lieberman’s political and policy positions, save, of course, the GWOT. What to do…
The rest of your assessment, as well as those of many who have already posted their thoughts in this forum about the notion of JL as McCain’s VP, is right on the money in my eyes. Like many others here who find little joy in Sen. McCain’s liberal thinking and policy inclinations, or his all too truculent manner with his fellow Republicans, I will not so much vote for McCain, as against the disastrous marxist policies of the mendacious and shallow Obama whose chief achievements seem to be that he has mastered the use of the teleprompter, and of George Soros’ wallet.
If McCain is going to turn this thing around and win, he needs to beat Obama like a gong about foreign policy, find some more common ground with his own party (forget about being a Demo-lite), and pick a real-deal small government/low tax/flat tax/drill for our own oil/non-climate change weenie/economic conservative, etc. as his VP. It wouldn’t hurt him to sing from that score with more conviction too. Time will tell.
