Jane Hamsher: Rush Limbaugh Fears A Vice President Lieberman — And So Do I

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Rush Limbaugh Fears A Vice President Lieberman — And So Do I
By: Jane Hamsher Tuesday August 19, 2008 1:00 pm


Noted Duran Duran scholar Kathryn Jean Lopez says Rush Limbaugh no likey Lieberman for VP:

If John McCain picks Joe Lieberman as his running mate, he would “snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,” as radio talk-show king Rush Limbaugh put it in an e-mail last night.

Obviously, I have an elaborate nightmare where Joe Lieberman gets the VP nod, McCain wins, then dies -- and we're looking at a President Lieberman.:scared: At which point me, Tim Tagaris, Maura Keaney, Ed Anderson and a host of others all wind up in Guantanamo Bay.

Now I may just be engaging in extraordinary cynicism here. But over the years, I've watched Arlen Specter set himself up as conscience of the Senate and rail against the administration's abuse of executive powers, at which point everyone invests him with the moral authority to adjudicate the situation and then he lets 'em off the hook. And I worry that KJ and the Sacred Sperm Patrol are being likewise suckered.

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McCain announces his VP choice in Ohio the day after Obama's Invesco speech. My showbiz gene says he announces that his choice is Lieberman, the media goes apeshit with the narrative of Joe being the Democratic candidate in 2000 and the Republican choice in 2008, and just as Obama puts the gloves on, McCain steals his bipartisan thunder. And more importantly, his convention bounce.

Yes he needs the fundies, but John McCain is a media creature and the temptation for all that hot monkey press love is just too juicy.

I sure hope this is just my dark thoughts getting the best of me. Because I do not look good in orange.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Anything elTurdbo hates, I'm for.

Who does this fat bastard think he is anyway?

I'd like to see McCain calmly and slowly tell ElTurdbo to go f**k himself.

[zbdent]

5. reverse psychology ...

I mean, with McLieberBush being the "lone voice in the wilderness Democrat" who has repeatedly bashed anybody for questioning the war ...

The $400 million man will be laughing his anal cyst off ...

[ZinZen]

2. Does this mean Droopy Dog

will get out his innovative Joe Momentum bus?

[katandmoon]

3. The chances that McCain will pick Lieberman are zero

Let's worry about something else, like Obama getting elected in the face of Republican dirty tricks.

[1Hippiechick]

4. McLiar choosing Lieberman would HELP Obama get elected, don't you think? n/t