McCain Snubs Lieberman, Rell

Friday August 29, 2008

And Sen. John McCain’s camp just let fly that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be his vice presidential candidate. Yikes.
He couldn’t have picked a less-likely running mate. How many electoral votes does Alaska have? Three.
It makes Connecticut’s seven electoral votes look huge. Even though her experience is a fraction of what Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell has had, Palin’s conservative enough to satisfy red-meat Republican types.
It leaves Joe Lieberman, who still have some socially liberal cred, free to become a cabinet member if McCain is the next president.And if that happens, Rell can appoint herself, or U.S. Attorney Kevin O’Connor, or state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, to serve in the U.S. Senate until the 2010 elections.