Robert Novak: Avoiding a Lieberman Disaster

[brooklynite]

well, that was a short retirement...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Reports of strong support within John McCain's presidential campaign for Independent Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman as the Republican candidate for vice president are not a fairy tale. Influential McCain backers, plus McCain himself, would pick the pro-choice liberal from Connecticut if they thought they could get away with it.
But they can't get away with it -- and this has been made clear to McCain by none other than Joe Lieberman himself.

Lieberman surely doesn't know that much about Republican politics, but he has close Republican friends. One of them prevailed on Lieberman to tell McCain that a McCain-Lieberman ticket would be a disaster for all concerned, and especially for the GOP.

Actually, Lieberman is a heroic figure among Republicans for having risked his Senate seat to support President George W. Bush's war policy. But aside from the war, he votes the straight liberal line, including pro-choice on abortion. Lieberman's Republican friend told him that the Republicans would leave Minnesota in a state of disarray with a McCain-Lieberman ticket, alienating social conservatives who now make up the core of Republican voters.

http://www.creators.com/opinion/robert-novak/avoiding-a-lieberman-disaster.html

[avaistheone1]

1. Novak is a has been.

I just hope Novak is not driving any more, so no one else will be run over.

[SurfingAtWork]

2. Bob, how can we miss you if you don't go away?

[zbdent]

9. go to a reputable dealer

and have the scope adjusted ...

[tritsofme]

3. I have a feeling this Lieberman "controversy" is orchestrated.

So that when he does pick Lieberman he comes across as more of a "maverick"

[spanone]

4. maybe the brain tumor will make him more human......naaaaaaaaw

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. I thought Novak retired when he got a brain tumor?

You know, the one he said he got after hitting that homeless man with his car?

[geek tragedy]

6. Somebody should have given Al Gore similar advice. n/t

[WeDidIt]

7. Did enybody else notice Novak called him "Independent-DemocratIC

yet always uses the purgorative "Democrat Party" in other columns?

[Johonny]

8. you know what's a disaster

If a reporter outed a CIA agent that was in charge monitoring nuclear proliferation in the middle east in the middle of the war on middle east terror groups.