Obama and Clinton would lead to Mccain and Lieberman

If a Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ticket goes forward, as either could lead the party ticket, both currently polling in their mid fourties, John Mccain needs to pick up Joseph Lieberman as his running mate. Though John Edwards would seem the plain choice for either as Vice Presidential nominee, there seems to be a hope in the Democratic Party for a power ticket, where the winner remains on top and the loser stays with the campaign on the bottom. This would be the compromise for both Obama or Clinton, both candidates who really could win, neither having a huge advantage over the other.

With their own ticket's top nominee decided, a decision on the nominee for Vice President is now very key for the Republican Party, but on this question I think they must think outside of the box. Being a Vietnamese Prisoner of War, his time spent in solitary confinement and his country's historical love of war heroes as successful presidential candidates, one can see how such a worldview could be helpful for America from the Oval Office in the current days it is in, trying hard to find a tougher Republican would be quite hard to find, even harder to sell. Instead, though Iraq has indeed trapped him, Mccain's strength is domestic politics, somwthing which he would need to return to in order to win, thus perhaps a maverick from the other side, even within his own Gang of Fourteen, on filibustering judicial nominations, itself, being maybe the very individual he would co-write legislation with that would eventually create the 9-11 Commission.

But I personally can not think of anyone better to pair up with Mccain than Joseph Lieberman, an Independent from Connecticut, who not only had the experience of running as such a nominee in 2000 with Al Gore and the Democrats, but whose understanding of bipartisan politics, quite like Senators Russ Feingold, Fritz Hollings or Jim Jeffords, is just as strong as Mccain in times both the White House and the United States of America needs such guidance from above. His run in 2004 for President in the Democratic race, shows he still has spunk, as does his Independent run and win after his party spurned him in his Congressional primary race, plus he picked up Mccain's faltering campaign when he most needed it with an early open endorsement. That he now has a consistent record of voting on both sides of the House should tell others he is responsible to the people, not the agenda, with the only question being would either an Obama-Clinton or Mccain-Lieberman administration bring the reforms needed to bring America back from the advancing troubles ahead.