Politico.com is reporting the John McCain is seriously considering a Lieberman Surprise, tapping the Democrat-turned-Independent U.S. Senator (and former Democrat Veep Nominee) to be his 
running mate (the photo is of Lieberman "running" with the last guy who asked him to be a running mate).
Because I have a blog, I thought I would share my instant reaction to this news (you know, "ready-fire-aim" – my specialty)…
I choose not to put much credence in such an idea as it is sign the McCain is looking in exactly the wrong direction (to his left) for a VEEP nominee. If you are a conservative and you win the primary, I can understand the idea of moving to the middle at this point. But McCain beat more conservative candidates to win his primary, and he needs to use the convention, and his VEEP pick to consolidate Republicans behind his candidacy with enthusiasm.
For the record, if he does tap a non-Republican as a running mate,, the Senator will be looking for at least one new at-large Alternate Delegate for the convention — because I will cancel my trip.
If McCain, the moderate, doesn’t balance his ticket with a conservative running mate, he will make my job and that of the other State GOP officers in 50 state parties around the country — getting out the GOP vote — that much more difficult.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:00 am
You’re welcome Jon and any other RNC delegate to come over to the Target Center for Ron Paul’s Rally For The Republic event on Tuesday Sept 2nd of the RNC Convention where over 10,000 small government Republicans will be meeting on how we can get the party back to our founding principles.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I am with you Jon.
After McCain’s performance at Saturday’s Saddleback Church, I was ready to put a McCain bumper sticker on my car, but I am going to hold back to see if he chooses Joe Liberalman… it will save me the work of ripping the bumper sticker off.