{"id":9564,"date":"2007-01-09T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9564.html"},"modified":"2007-01-09T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T18:45:04","slug":"worstticket-ideaever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/worstticket-ideaever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst&#8230;ticket idea&#8230;ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek&#8217;s Tom Curry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16530615\/\">speculates<\/a> about an idea for a presidential ticket that&#8217;s almost too scary for words.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will McCain, now a leading contender for the 2008 GOP nomination, borrow Kerry&#8217;s idea and offer the vice presidency to Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut&#8217;s self-styled &#8220;independent Democrat&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>The McCain-Lieberman duo showed a warm camaraderie Friday during their joint appearance at the American Enterprise Institute, an event where they both called for a substantial increase in the number of U.S. troops in Iraq in order to impose order, stop ethnic cleansing, and give the Maliki government a chance to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Lieberman lavished praise on his Arizona ally&#8230;. There&#8217;s an affinity of personnel, as well as of ideology, between the Arizona Republican and the Connecticut Democrat: McCain&#8217;s spokesman in 2004, Marshall Wittmann, now works as Lieberman&#8217;s spokesman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The quote of the piece clearly goes to Terry Lierman, chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party, who said, &#8220;Does McCain need Lieberman to attract Republican votes?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s funny, but the idea of a McCain-Lieberman ticket isn&#8217;t. Indeed, in 2008, exactly which part of the American electorate will be clamoring for an all-hawk, all-the-time ticket?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek&#8217;s Tom Curry speculates about an idea for a presidential ticket that&#8217;s almost too scary for words. Will McCain, now a leading contender for the 2008 GOP nomination, borrow Kerry&#8217;s idea and offer the vice presidency to Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut&#8217;s self-styled &#8220;independent Democrat&#8221;? The McCain-Lieberman duo showed a warm camaraderie Friday during their joint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}