Lieberman to Speak at GOP Convention

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This is going to be good folks. Zell Miller(D) spoke at the 2004 Republican convention and showed the voters how wrong the Dems were on the issues - Sen Liberman is going to do the same


Lieberman to Speak at GOP Convention
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, completing a dramatic political transformation over the last eight years, is now scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention next month, according to GOP sources.

The Connecticut senator, who calls himself an "independent Democrat" and attends some Democratic meetings on Capitol Hill, has become one of the McCain's closet allies, campaigning with him everywhere and rumored to be on his list of potential running mates. Lieberman is now on a trip to Georgia with Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, another close McCain ally. The pair is visiting the war-torn state in their capacities as members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, while also effectively acting as McCain's emissaries there.

Lieberman has at times sharply criticized Sen. Barack Obama, particularly on his opposition to the Iraq war, which Lieberman forcefully backed.

Lieberman, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000 and a White House candidate for the presidency himself four years later, seems unlikely to give the kind of fiery speech that then-Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) offered against then Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry at the 2004 GOP convention in New York. Lieberman's speeches introducing McCain tend to focus on the Arizona senator's work on bipartisan compromises in the Senate and their shared views on Iraq.

Lieberman joins a list of speakers at the convention that already includes President Bush, Vice President Cheney and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/20/lieberman_to_speak_at_gop_conv.html

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I do not agree Sen Lieberman wouls be a good VP

Sec of Defence would be good however


Lieberman Agonistes
August 21, 2008

It's hard to tell whom Joe Lieberman is causing more heartburn these days -- Democrats or Republicans.

The Independent Democratic Senator has infuriated his Democratic colleagues because he's planning to speak at the Republican convention next month for his friend John McCain. Ask Mr. Lieberman -- the last of the Democratic foreign-policy hawks -- about Barack Obama's credentials to be President, and he pulls no punches. The betting is that Majority Leader Harry Reid will take revenge and strip Mr. Lieberman of his committee chairmanship if Democrats have a larger majority in 2009.

Meanwhile, the Republican blogosphere is erupting over rumors that Mr. McCain might choose Mr. Lieberman as his vice president. Our email box is full of panicky reports that the Arizona Republican is giving it serious thought, and that this would doom Mr. McCain's chances in November. Mr. Lieberman is pro-choice on abortion, he's a liberal on this or that, and in any case isn't there any Republican who could fill the bill? Or so goes the anticipatory outrage.

Our own view is that Mr. Lieberman would make a fine Secretary of State, and that, given the political risks, making him vice president would probably be too great an election gamble. But Mr. Lieberman's national security credentials are first-rate, and we've known him long enough to remember his opposition to an income tax in Connecticut, and his support for lower capital gains taxes, school vouchers and private Social Security accounts. Liberated from having to run as a Democrat, he might recall those policy instincts.

We have no doubt he'd be a better vice president than many oft-mooted Republicans, including some of those who are favorites of the anti-Lieberman alarmists.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121927475495558387.html?mod=opinion_main_review_ and_outlooks