No McCain-Lieberman Ticket
Ed Morrissey reports that Team McCain “emphatically denies any suggestion that Lieberman would get selected as his running mate if McCain wins the Republican nomination.”
It’s something I’ve asked several people, Ed being one of them, myself: could we see a McCain-Lieberman ticket? In my eyes that would be the ultimate moderate ticket, wouldn’t it? And McCain’s acceptable – it seems – to conservatives and Lieberman is quite respected because of his views on Iraq (not on other issues of course).
All those who I asked, however, told me that it’s never going to happen because, as Ed explains in his post, “McCain already has enough trouble putting the GOP base at ease with his track record; he’d hardly jeopardize his nomination by picking a Democrat as his potential successor.” Not only that, although they are good friends, they disagree with each other on virtually every issue, except for foreign policy.
Ed also believes that McCain will choose someone as his running mate with a long history in the Republican Party and who’s greatly respected by conservatives. Ed himself suggests someone like Governor Sanford of South Carolina. Although that sounds reasonable, it seems to me that McCain won’t ask someone to be his running mate who has all but endorsed Obama and who refused to endorse one of the Republican candidates.
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