Watching the McCain-Lieberman Love me some more war Fest now.

[Skidmore]

As I've been watching, it occurs to me that besides McCain grovelling for the votes of the extreme nutcase right, Lieberman is sucking up to be on a "bipartisan" ticket with him. They are both campaigning as a team on the warmonger ticket. So desparate for power, both would shed blood to get it.

[monktonman]

1. correction......

they'd shed someone elses blood for power

[NastyRiffraff]

2. Yes, I've been watching the two of them...

for some time. More and more, I think they're planning a ticket. Of course, the question is, WHOSE ticket? Joe is now an "independent" (NOT an Independent Democrat). But, he wants to be ::shudder:: president. So, of course, does McCain.

Joe can't run as a Dem, and he knows it. (Well, he CAN, but he'll be outta the primaries almost immediately.) So his choices are: Run as a Dem (and lose big time in the primaries), run as an Independent (and lose in the general), go Republican and run THAT way, or, after he loses as an Independent, accept McCain's offer of the vice presidency.

From his point of view, if you look at it, his best bet would be the Republican run (which of course means he has to formally change parties). He has a much greater chance there than going through the Dem primaries. And even if he loses...a very good possibility, he can still accept McCain's offer. That is, of course, if McCain wins the R-primaries.

Big gamble for Joe. He'll have to keep caucusing with the Dems to keep his committee assignments, so he's walking a thin line.

But I'm sure he'll do what he thinks is best for Joe.

[EST]

4. I think you can almost count on a McCain-Lieberman ticket.

And that ticket may well prove unbeatable.

Crazy John will appeal to the wingers, of course, and the moderate publiclowns and quite a number of democrats can assuage their guilt with excuses that NoMoJoe is a centrist dem so it's not such a bad combination.

Much as I hate to say it, if they run together, they'll win-I think.

Even their practiced, self-deprecating fake stuttering is exact copies of each other.

McCain considers himself a military expert but his military service, before his pow thing, consisted of cruising high above the people he was delivering death to, killing hundreds without soiling his hands and going home to a hearty, hot meal, a stateroom in officer country and a comfortable bunk with no mosquitoes; no swamp muck gluing shirt to belly button, and a serene, detached idea of what combat is all about.

Crazy McCain and Joementalcase-what a chickenhawk combo. Lucky us that we will probably still be in charge of the house (also known as the aitch-owe-are.)

It won't be much of a problem if they kill another million hadjis and their babies and a few thousand more US troops-after all, they knew what they were getting into when they volunteered, right?

:puke:

[Skidmore]

5. McCain needs to be buried in the primaries.

I'd play on the social conservatives and their mistrust of him.

[acmavm]

6. Nope, they are not 'unbeatable'. Haven't you been paying any

attention to the fact that the majority of the American people are tired of this war, think that it wasn't worth it in the first place, are coming around to the mass realization that they were lied to, and do not want to pay for it anymore (either in dead military personnel and financially). Even the news of the casualty county of innocent Iraqis is starting to make the consciences of the more intelligent amongst us itch.

Not only have they taken the stand that is 180 degrees opposite of what the majority (70%) of the American public wants, Liebermann has truly shown what a conniving scheming bastard he really is. NO going back on it now, no matter how many times he claims 'he's learned his lesson' and understands it is what the people want that matters.

No, everytime these old croaks open their mouths the lose credibility and support.

[Lasher]

3. I saw a propaganda fest on CSPAN last night that featured these 2 clowns

It was sponsored by the rightwing neocon think tank, the American Enterprise Institute. John and Joe had just returned from their recent magical mystery tour to Iraq and Afghanistan to announce their startling new conclusions: War! War! War! Terra! Terra! Terra! Whatever Junior and Lord Vader say, me too! Stay the course, er I mean finish the job! I thought I would hurl and couldn't watch it all the way through.

And get this: They are calling for a substantial and sustained commitment of more IED fodder in Iraq. How long would "sustained" be? Won't say, that would give victory to the evildoers.

This is sheer insanity. I couldn't believe CSPAN aired this shameful infomercial for the military/industrial complex.

[Loge23]

7. McCain is pitiable, but LIEberman is reprehensible

McCain has just gone off the deep end - a kind of pre-senility thing, IMO.
But no one outside of the administration makes ny blood boil like that piece of trash, LIEberman. What a duplicious piece of garbage!