I don't think Lieberman is going to be the McCain monkey....

As speculation grows around who John McCain will select as his vice presidential running mate next week, Republican National Committee officials said Tuesday that McCain is no longer considering former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge.

Several sources at the RNC told FOX News that in the last 36 hours, senior McCain advisers and aides have told RNC officials that McCain "got the message" last week that choosing a running mate who supports abortion rights would not be helpful.

GOP pundits had been vocal in urging the presumptive presidential nominee not to pick a running mate who supports abortion rights. Ridge, the first homeland security secretary, was said to be on McCain’s short list, and the only candidate who explicitly supports abortion rights.

http://elections.foxnews.com/...

It looks like your political capital keeps sliping Mr Lieberman!!!

As we all anticipate Barack Obama’s Vice Presidential pick and as we play the veep-sweaps and as some of us, state how certain choices will be great while others will be horrible.  Some have even said that some possibilities might even cause us to lessen our degrees of support for Obama; I want to make a point, using a thought exercise.  Let’s travel through an alternate history.  In this history we elected a person, who for most Kossacks, would be one of the worst possible Vice Presidents.  How would the world have changed?

The fictional Vice President I am referring to is, if you hadn’t guessed, Joe Lieberman.  In my alternate history, I am assuming that the SCOTUS allowed the Florida recount to proceed and as a result Al Gore and Joe Lieberman won the Electoral College and were sworn in January of 2001.  Okay, I think for most of us – Joe Lieberman is far worse than any of the names being mentioned this year as VP.  So if he and Al had been declared the winners in 2000, where would we be today?

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Thank you AP for giving us a good heartfelt chuckle this evening!  Fantastic.

His top contenders are said to include Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Less traditional choices mentioned include former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, an abortion-rights supporter, and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000 who now is an independent.

Am I the only one who realizes that the Democrats will not have a majority come November 5, 2008-January 3, 2009? This is going to be a very tumultuous winter in DC. Lieberman will leave the Dem caucus and join the GOP (I know, like he hasn’t already). This is a pretty valid inference, since the Dems will almost certainly win at least 5 GOP seats this cycle and Holy Joe will no longer be needed and Harry Reid is then free to punish Holy Joe for his traitorous behavior on Iraq, acting as a Bush surrogate as the Homeland Security Chair, and obviously the presidential race by talking away his committee assignments. I expect Joe to bolt to the GOP right after the election, if not before, especially if McCain commits political suicide and chooses Lieberman for VP. If I can see it coming, his minions can for sure. (I will not let my face turn blue waiting for Lanny Davis to condemn Joe for becoming a GOPer)

[From the Frog Pond]

You know, Lanny Davis is right.  Sen. Ted Stevens, like all individuals under federal indictment, is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.  Ted Stevens has been indicted by a grand jury for committing seven felonies.  And last Thursday, in new filings in the case, prosecutors revealed that Ted Stevens turned a $5,000 investment into a $155,000 profit through the use of an $31,000 interest-free loan that was both improper and never disclosed in his senate filings.  

Senator Lugar appeared on CNN's Face the Nation today with nothing short of honesty.  He bashed Joe Lieberman's recent statements at a campaign rally for John McCain(in regards to Obama and Georgia) as "a clearly partisan statement."  In other words, that ain't straight talk- that's some politics being played by John McCain's close friend.  Lugar definitely decided not to tow the party line.  Commenting on John McCain's position to kick Russia out of the G-8, Lugar said that's probably not a good idea.  In other words, it's probably a bad idea.

With all the love Lieberman is showing to the McCainiac these days, I say it's time to kick Lieberman out of the Democratic caucus.

In a striking blow to Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign, Warner Bros. has decided to move the next installment of the Harry Potter film franchise to Summer 2009. The films was slated to swoop into theaters on November 11, 2008. The change in opening dates is yet another in a string of fortunate breaks for the McCain campaign.

McCain's VP running mate will not be Joe Lieberman for the following reasons....

My PUMA friend, yes I am still friends with him. Just sent me this email:

If McCain picks Lieberman as his running mate... he has my vote. Now is the time for bipartisanship, something Obama preaches about but both McCain and Lieberman have a history of. Lieberman would bring the social liberalism to the ticket that I so desire, while McCain has the experience to lead. I think this is the ticket, and could actually bring some excitement to the republican side...although I would see it more as excitement for the country in general. A true step towards bipartisanship. B/c we may have ideals on the left and ideals on the right, and you may be one of those that consider yourselves on the far left, but the fact is we currently live in a right of center country...and the only way we can shift to the left (which I would like to see on social issues) is to have bipartisanship.

McCain/Lieberman 08'

or

Obama/Hillary 08'

or if the buyers remorse really sets in in time maybe..

Hillary/? 08'

My response after the jump:

Just another example of how much the MSM wants little Johnny Boy to win (can someone please explain why??)  I just watched a clip of the CBS evening news talking about "changes" in the McCain campaign, where they showed Joe lieberman's famous little speech at a McCain Rally:

In my opinion, the choice could not be more clear, between one candidate John McCain who's had experience, been tested in war and tried in peace. Another candidate who has not.  Between one candidate, John McCain who's always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who has not.

We all know to hate Joe Lieberman.  Since his nomination to be Vice-President, it seems like Lieberman has done everything possible to alienate his former base and those who wanted him so much to be a first.  The litany is too much to mention, but the highlights of course includes his vehement and illogical support for both Bush's idiotic war, but also his incompetent appointees and his ugly attacks against fellow party members well before this election cycle.

In the press conference today, John McCain said something that I could not follow.  It seems that CBS News was puzzled too.

When reporters pointed out Lieberman’s statement to McCain, who was standing next to Lieberman during today's press conference, McCain gave a response that left some confused.

"Well, let me respond by, by just saying that, I think that whatever we think at the moment, that we can all reserve that for a future time. And I think judgments will be made about how we handled that situation, how we approached the situation in Iraq, and how much experience and knowledge and background means in selecting the American people’s decision as to who should be the next commander in chief. And so all I can say is there will be plenty of time for that."

I guess the reporters were as flabbergasted as I was.  Can anyone translate that for me?

Crossposted at Strategy08.

Now this is what I'm talking about. Nancy Pelosi has gone on the record stating that Lieberman's days as Chairman are numbered.

In encouraging the U.S. to defend the nation of Georgia, why did John McCain insist on labeling Georgia a "Christian Nation"?

We're now in day three of the LOLJohnMcCain project, where we have been putting together LOLCats inspired pictures of John McCain that work to build a narrative of incompetence, wrongness, and crazy old age around McCain.

Kossacks have been tremendous in contributing both pictures and ideas for the site. We've had 11,000 viewers in the first two days, and want to keep that going and growing, so that every American on the internet has seen at least one of these LOLJohnMcCain pictures.

To contribute, email me at jordanzakarin at yahoo dot com to submit pics and ideas. Keep 'em coming, and let's get this diary in the recommended section, and dugg and redditted and stumbleuponed so we can spread these things around!

Guess what folks?

JOE LIEBERMAN IS A TURD.

HE IS A TURD, A TURD, A TURD, A TURD, A TURD!!!!