What do you make of Joe Lieberman endorsing John McCain (serious answers only please) ?

Question

Mon Dec 17, 11:22 PM ET

HILLSBOROUGH, N.H. - Republican John McCain is having quite a moment. He's rising in the polls. He's got major newspaper endorsements in Iowa and New Hampshire. And now he's getting help with this state's legions of independent voters from Joe Lieberman, the contrarian who was Democrat Al Gore's running mate in 2000.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071218/ap_po/mccain_lieberman;_ylt=AhdBhsB.qrv_P0ae.dtIq3Ws0NUE

Answer 1

They are pretty close in their way of thinking. While democrats think Joe Lieberman is a Republican, we Republicans think John McCain is a Democrat. I don't know why he is rising in the polls. The only way he will get my vote is if he is the only republican out there. He still support Amnesty, so I cannot support him.

Answer 2

I'm not sure. On the one hand I really respect and admire Lieberman and think that McCain is a decent guy and on the other hand I can't get over the fact that McCain pushed for amnesty of all illegal immigrants without closing the border and he criticizes the use of torture. I guess it makes me look at him more closely but it doesn't change my vote. Yet.

Answer 3

Both Lieberman and McCain are good men, although both are more conservative than I like to see in politicians.

The problem is that George W. Bush ran a tough campaign against McCain, which left McCain scarred politically.

Lieberman might be popular in New Hampshire and among independent voters, but I'll really be surprised if this is enough to get the majority of Republicans behind him.

Answer 4

Biggest phony in the country, Lieberman whined that the dems turned against him on one issue after his years of solid democratic advocacy in the senate, got the unions in NJ to buy it, hell I even bought it, and got himself elected again. Now he stabs the unions who elected him in the back by supporting McCain, an anti labor guy if there ever was one.
He will always be the reason I reserve my judgment on Al Gore, a guy who seems right on all the issues, but you got to wonder when he picked a guy like Phony Joe for VP.
The good thing is it will have no effect. There is not a sane person out there who will be influenced by Joe Liebermans endorsement, McCain might as well have gotten Patricia Harris to endorse him.

Answer 5

I think it shows Lieberman is slightly right of the average Democrat and McCain is slightly left of the average Republican. It makes perfect sense to me that they'd be pretty close together on the political number line.

Answer 6

Joe Lieberman is looking for someone who would make a good wartime president. He doesn't see that among any of the Democratic candidates.

Answer 7

I like Joe Lieberman, one of the few democrats I really like. Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller are of the "old school" democrats that aren't near as far left as some of the left wing lunatics that have hijacked the Democrat party. I wouldn't vote for McCain, I have tremendous respect for him because of his military service and his being a POW, but he is too soft on illegal aliens.

Answer 8

I have an amount of respect for Joe Lieberman because of all of his work regarding national security but even so it would not make me vote for someone like McCain.

McCain has been wrong on the border, taxes and so called campaign reform too many times for me to even consider him as a candidate

Answer 9

John McCain is te only honorable candidate in the running. Awar hero as well. If he makes it to the finals, I will vote Republican for the first time in my life. (No! Never voted Dem either. I always voted Indemendent, Liberaterian or National)

Answer 10

It shows that McCain has some appeal to the middle and to part of the left. It also shows that there is a split showing more and more in the democrat party.