Joe Lieberman for Vice-President?

As I understand it from reading the "New York Times," Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut has decided to endorse John McCain. In case you're from another planet, Joe Lieberman is New England senator who is liberal on almost every domestic and economic issue, but is quite hawkish on foreign policy. He is an independent Democrat and was a member of the Democratic Party until last year, when he was defeated in the state primary by Ned Lamont (one of the most notorious dunces to run for office), but kept his seat (thank goodness for independent parties.) It's surprising, I suppose, that Sen. Lieberman should endorse a Republican, though not Sen. John McCain, given that he and Lieberman are very good friends (last year, during the great unpleasantness in Connecticut, McCain said that Lieberman was "one of the most decent men" that he knew.) But my guess is that Joe is aiming higher. You may remember that he has run for vice president once (in 2000) and president also (in 2004). Unfortunately, due to the fiasco in 2006, this pretty much undoes his option of running for president as a Democrat; but Lieberman knows that he won largely because Republicans and other conservatives--including William F. Buckley--through their support behind him. For this reason, Lieberman may be thinking that he could make a viable VP candidate. He would also greatly increase the Republican chances of victory; he is Jewish, but orthodoxly so and is capable of speaking religious language; he supports the surge in Iraq and has continued to assert that it is working; his position on stem-cell research (he once said that it was the first thing he would fund, should he ever become president) will not even be an issue, because, thanks to God and scientific innovation, stem-cell research no longer appears to be an issue. David Brooks, for one, has already fantasized about a McCain-Lieberman presidential ticket as the most representative of American centricism (if that isn't a word, then it should be) and moderation. The only problem is that, while Joseph Lieberman may make a viable vice-presidential candidate, he will never get the nomination for the presidency in the Republican Party. Vice President Cheney took Sherman's oath of office "If drafted I will not run, if elected I will not serve" (or something like that), and, if he does have his eye on the office next to the Oval Office, Sen. Lieberman should consider practicing these same words in front of the mirror.