Rumor has it - and there are a lot of rumors flying around today about the presidential election - that John McCain is still seriously considering Joe Lieberman as his running mate.
Please, please, please do it.
...GOP sources say McCain and his close friend Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) still haven’t given up hope on making what some believe would be a game-changing decision by tapping Lieberman.
What do John McCain and Joe Lieberman have in common? What brings them together and what drove the pro-choice Lieberman out of the Democratic Party? Their mutual support for George W. Bush's war in Iraq and their general neo-con foreign policy leanings. (In this photo we see W and Lieberman hugging uncontrollably).
Picking Lieberman would make the election about Iraq and the failed foreign police goals supported by Bush, McCain and their old friend Joe.
That's a debate that Barack Obama can win. Americans know that Bush and McCain have led America astray. Those failures will define a McCain-Lieberman ticket. And Barack Obama has a plan for ending the war and for making the world a safer place.
I'll note here that every single Christian denomination - with the exception of the Southern Baptists - went on record opposing the invasion of Iraq and have been critical of how that war has been waged ever since.
The evangelical wing of the Republican Party would just implode. If you thought the eruption of Mt. St. Helens was something to behold just watch the headquarters of Focus on the Family when news of a McCain-Lieberman ticket hits. Yes, McCain is to the right of President Bush on many foreign policy issues but he loves Planned Parenthood and once marched with MLK. He's changed since those days and now hangs out with a Republican crowd and has left the progressive days of his youth far behind. But the Right will never forgive McCain for bringing a Planned Parenthood-loving abortion supporter on the ticket.
And the rest of America? Lieberman is seen as a turncoat politican who will abandon his principles and friends just to get a little closer to the center of power. His approval ratings in his home state of Connecticut are below 50% - at their lowest margin in 14 years of polling.