Lieberman's Defense Secretary: John McCain???? HUH???

[ShaneGR]

QUICK! Someone tell Lieberman he is running in the DEMOCRATIC primary, not the Republican one.

Lieberman: And now fellow Democrats, please vote for me because I will make a REPUBLICAN the Defense Secretary!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=7&u=/ap/20031024/ap_on_el_pr/lieberman_mccain

(HILARIOUS SNIP)
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) said Friday that if elected president, he would tap Republican Sen. John McCain as Defense secretary.


Doing little to dispel the criticism that he's a closet Republican, Lieberman told Don Imus's syndicated radio program that he would want the Arizona senator, a colleague and a friend, for the Pentagon (news - web sites) post.

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[Sesquipedalian]

3. McCain isn't a "centrist"

He's the most militaristic freak on the planet, I can't imagine a more dangerous man for SecDef (including Donald Rumsfeld).

[Wetzelbill]

15. as an AZ resident for a few years, McCain is frighteningly conservative

at times. I check out his Senate votes in the paper and this guy is pretty dangerous.

[ShaneGR]

4. Uhhhh, then choose a centrist DEMOCRAT

You don't win a Democratic Primary by announcing you will appoint Republicans. Come on man. There are THOUSANDS OF centrist Dems that could be named Defense Secretary. Hell, there has to be someone in the Dem party for Defense Secretary.

I'm not sure Lieberman understands that he is even in a primary.

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[Demoiselle]

9. oops..

I should read all the posts before I post. (See below.) But I am really very sure that Wm. Cohen is a Republican.

[Old and In the Way]

12. Cohen was......

In the best traditions of responsible moderate Republicans from the State of Maine. (Margaret Chase Smith, Olympia Snowe, Sue Collins (sorta...more clueless, than moderate, I think))

Bill also voted to impeach Nixon.

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[greatauntoftriplets]

16. So how do you explain Lieberman's vote to let Bush have his war

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=1277257&nav=0RdeFo2S

[Classical_Liberal]

17. Do live in a cave?

Lieberman consisistently against the war? Come now? He supported it and has chastised dems for not supporting it. He says we deserve to lose if we nominate someone who didn't support it.

[Kahuna]

7. He's playing "desperate" politics.

If he were "smart," he would have at least discussed it with McCain first. :eyes:

[davidinalameda]

18. maybe he had checked with McCain

and McCain okayed it

[fob]

10. I don't know if I'd say Lieberman is playing smart politics, but I

thik this may be a good idea for the dem nominee to adopt. McCain was skewered by bushco* in the 2000 primaries. McCain does draw independents which is good. Gives the NOM an air of bipartisanship and the beauty part is if/when he fucks up, he can be made a repuke example!

[alphafemale]

13. Oh yeah...playing to the center was REAL effective in 2002.

Sure.

Allow a guy who left half his body in Vietnam to be practically crucified because you are afraid to speak the truth and not be "centrist enough"

We will never out-republican republicans.

The sooner Joe is humilated out of this race the better.

He can join Zell and leave the party in a huff as far as I'm concerned.

edited...sloppy grammer was even sloppier

[lefty_mcduff]

2. Uhm. Isn't Lieberman supposed to be a DEMOCRATIC candidate

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[Catch22Dem]

5. I don't think that would suck too bad

I have a lot of respect for McCain. I think I actually started to really LIKE him after seeing what fucking Bush did to him in the primaries. I figure anyone who is that big of an enemy to the Bush family is OK with me.

[Kahuna]

8. McCain is a bigger warhawk than Lieb.

:puke:

[Classical_Liberal]

19. If 9/11 had happened by that time, you wouldn't think McCain

a moderate. No way. My eyes have sure been opened on John McCain since the Iraq war.

[Demoiselle]

6. Bill Clinton made a Republican head of the DOD

...William Cohen, right? It made it a bit harder for the Pukes to piss on his defense policy, and did that symbolic "partisan politics stops at the water's edge" bit. But Cohen is considerably to the left of McCain. And Lieberman is definitely to the right of Clinton.

[Paulie]

14. Choosing Republicans for DOD

WTF!!! We want to have the rep of still not getting the whole Defense Issue?

It's whacked... someone take Libermans DNC card away from him... DINO!!!

[BJ]

20. Yesterday it was backing Jeb Bush in the Schiavo case.

Today it's McCain as Defense Secretary in a Lieberman administration.
It's not unusal for Democratic presidents to have Repugs in cabinet position and visa-versa.
But if Joe's not a Republican what is he?

[demothinker]

21. I actually respect McCain

I think he's a conservative and Republican on principle, not on partisanship. He hasn't been afraid to disagree w/ the GOP on several issues, the biggest of which is campaign finance reform. Though I don't agree with him on most issues, I have respect for him.

That being said, I don't like him as defense secretary. I agree that he's a little too much of a hawk, and I think he's too strong personality-wise for anyone but a few of the dem candidates-Dean, Clark, and Kerry I think are the only ones that wouldn't be overshadowed by him.

Lieberman is making a huge mistake-you don't run to the center in the primaries. That's a smart play in the general election, but disaster in the primaries with the core constituents.

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. Dupe

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MrsGrumpy
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[Unknown Known]

23. This just makes me despise Lieberman even more

McCain is a POS and good for nothing.