Novak: McCain Wants Joe Lieberman As His Vice President

Published: June 15, 2008, 5:30 pm

Tags: harry reid, joe lieberman, independents, newsweek blogitics, vice president, john mccain, republicans, 2008 elections, moderates, independent voters, democrats, politics

Columnist Robert Novak reports that presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Senator John McCain already has a favorite who he’d love to pick for Vice President: Connecticut Independent-Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman: Sources close to Sen. John McCain say the Republican presidential candidate likes the idea of Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman, re-elected from Connecticut as an independent in 2006, or former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge for vice president - if he could get away with it. The political consensus is that McCain couldn’t get away with either, and he knows it. Lieberman, one of McCain’s closest Senate friends, vigorously supports him for president and sometimes joins him on the campaign trail. However, Lieberman opposes Republican policy on nearly everything except Iraq, where he has backed the war effort. First, yours truly owes a big fat “You were right” to The Moderate Voice’s co-blogger Michael Silverstein, a former editor

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