Republican Ticket in 2008: Giuliani/Lieberman

[Meldread]

This thought has come to me recently as I've watched Lieberman again and again shill for Republicans. Could he be making a play for the Vice President seat on the Republican ticket, similar to how people were encouraging John Kerry to pick John McCain as his Vice Presidential pick?

I could certainly see it going down, and the Republican party spinning as them trying to "reunify" America or some equally distasteful BS.

I could certainly see something playing out like this:
Republican: Giuliani/Lieberman
Democrat: Hillary/Obama

:puke:

Please, merciful God kill us now. If a line up even REMOTELY happens like that, I hope Ralph Nader is running in 2008 - otherwise I know for a fact I'm sitting that election out or showing up to write in my OWN damn name.

[LaurenG]

1. Disturbing thoughts you are having today

I would hope along with you that these "tickets" never manifest themselves. *deep sigh*

[ComerPerro]

2. Giuliani, yet another Republican who was saved by 9/11

[Meldread]

6. Well, at least we have dirt on him...

...remember when he was on the Today Show and blamed the Troops for failures in Iraq? If he does manage to get the Republican Nomination, I am sure he can be carpet bombed with that little off the cuff remark.

Ironically though, Giuliani is more liberal than Lieberman I think.

[ComerPerro]

7. Nah, that won't come back to haunt him.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Stop eating loaded pizzas before going to bed.

It gives you nightmares................

[DJ MEW]

4. Condi in 08

I keep seeing this bumper sticker. I don't know how possible it would be but there certainly seems to be some people that want to see Rice running in 08.

[Meldread]

8. She won't run.

She likes to make policy, she doesn't like campaigning. She is similar to Dick Cheney. I think at best she'd run for a Senate Seat or be mentioned as a Vice Presidential hopeful for Republicans.

Really, the only reason Republicans want her to run is so they can say "See, we like black people! We like women too! Look at Condi!"

Condi is a shill, wearing a diamond studded dog collar. She gets brought out on special occasions to "show off", and then is promptly put back in her little golden cage. She is the new type of Uncle Tom.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Nope. Reconstructionists, neocons, and corporatists won't allow it.

And Giuliani is not sociopath who's comfortable with consistent lying.

[Meldread]

12. It won't make a diffrence.

Why? Because by 2008 Bush is going to be badly neutered and the Republican party is going to be bleeding from every orifice. They are going to need to rely on Giuliani's popularity, "charisma", and ability to draw people from both sides of the isle. They'll still have Lieberman on the inside.

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. two pro-choice on the ticket?

I doubt it.

[MrBenchley]

11. The GOP will never support Giuliani

He's pro-gay, pro-gun control, and pro-reproductive rights--and he had a mistress and a messy divorce...the other Republicans would crucify him in the primaries.

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Rat-teeth isn't going to cut it for the RW whackos

Not "pure" enough for the rabid right.

[MrBenchley]

17. Exactly

I also think McCain will be less acceptable than he was before....they're going to demand a bullgoose loony like Brownback.

[mtnsnake]

19. and he comes from a very liberal city in the northeast

I'd love to see that asshole run, just so his arrogant smurk gets wiped off his face once and for all.

[MrBenchley]

20. I doubt he could win NYC....

and you know he won't win in the sticks....

[Dogmudgeon]

10. It happens every time

I'd take Hillary on a bad day over any Republican any day. But then again, I think better of most Democratic politicians than most DUers appear to. (And while I don't like Lieberman, ranting about him is a waste of time and effort.)

There's another factor you ought to consider: in 2008, hundreds of other, local candidates will be running. Many of them will meet your criteria for acceptance. And if 2006 and 2008 are the routs I think they will be, we will need every Democratic vote in the House and Senate we can get. Out of power but with an unbreakable hold on the Supreme Court, the Republican remnant will be writing law from the bench, a practice they have just spent 50 years denonuncing.

As to Nader, write in your own name -- Nader's own Jeckyll/Hyde personality comes out at such times. He was little more than a tool in 2000, which was very tough for me to believe. But then again, 2000 turned all our expectations around.

Win or lose, we need to concentrate on offices other than that of the President. We need to concentrate on the legislature. We need to concentrate on local races. And with a nod to Nader as Jeckyll (and possibly HRC as Jeckyll as well), we need to concentrate on grassroots activism. Don't worry, we won't neglect the presidency, but it's not the only thing, and we need to re-capture it ALL within the next four years. Without a rock-solid Democratic presence in DC, the Republicans will simply mine a new lode of toxic, acidic, radioactive mud to fling at us.

But if Hillary is the standard-bearer, you can be comforted by the fact that if 99% of the Democratic Party wants something, and President Hillary doesn't, she is quite likely to swallow her pride and focus on the Big Picture.

Remember, she's a politician.

--p!

[LaurenG]

16. If you are a Hillary /lieberman supporter then this post won't

apply to you. I have a question about why anyone would support a candidate who is so DLC when there are other candidates with FAR superior qualifications. Why get behind someone who has so little integrity and does as they please rather than what the people are demanding? Their visions for our country are disturbing and they seem to play to their own agendas. Why aren't they holding bush accountable instead of holding him close? Where is their MORAL leadership?

IMHO these two are just bush with different faces. Why does anyone think that by electing either one to high office their personalities would change and they would get behind doing the right thing for the country? We just have so many FAR more superior people to choose from that this seems like a big mistake.

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[Eugene]

13. Won't happen. Guiliani/Lieberman is too liberal for the GOP base.

The Iraq War aside, Holy Joe is a moderate especially on deomestic issues.
Do you really think that the Christian right will accept a ticket
with two East coast, pro-choice social moderates?

Joe Lieberman is a maverick, not a Republican.

[Mark E. Smith]

14. The GOP Will Be Kissing The Asses Of The Fundies In '08

... because after 3 more years of The Idiot Son that will be the only reliable constituency they have left.

No Rudy, no McCain. Put your money on Frist, with a couple of bucks on Brownback for the odds.

[countingbluecars]

18. Another fundie favorite,

George Allen, is a possibility as well.