Posted by
RightTeacher on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:34:30 PM
McCain and Lieberman have both been right on Iraq. There are some other issues on which they might agree. Most of the time they do not.
McCain is a conservative. Most of his voting record rates out as conservative. He is wrong on some issues. Big ones. But most of the work of congress (and the president) never makes the news. On these issues, McCain is very conservative and Lieberman is very liberal. Don't get me wrong. I like Lieberman and wish more democrats were like him. But he is right on about as many issues McCain is wrong on. There is the war. What else?
Considering the different parties positions and and McCains positions on those issues it may seem like McCain would have been successful as a democrat, or that McCain and Lieberman would make good running mates (though there would still be a question of who would be on the top of the ticket). But the truth of the matter is that neither of this would have worked out. Like a couple that is attracted to each other but is fundamentally incompatible, McCain and the democrats just wouldn't work. On all of those issues that don't make the news, the day to day decisions made by the chief executive, the dems and the McCain would not be able to get along.