McCain Wanted Lieberman

The religious fundamentalist right pushed McCain into Palin. McCain wanted Leiberman. What was he afraid of, was he thinking the religious right would vote for Obama.

It looks like McCain needed someone to campaign through the bible belts. Will Palin ever see the bright lights of NYC?

NYT: Advisers Say Conservative Ire Pushed McCain Away From Picking Lieberman

For weeks, advisers close to the campaign said, Mr. McCain had wanted to name as his running mate his good friend Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrat turned independent. But by the end of last weekend, the outrage from Christian conservatives over the possibility that Mr. McCain would fill out the Republican ticket with Mr. Lieberman, a supporter of abortion rights, had become too intense to be ignored.