A Politico article about “opposites attracting“.

Do they really think that Lieberman is the politically ideological opposite to McCain? Are they trying to make their readers laugh? Lieberman is so into McCain and his ilk that the brown on his nose is a permanent feature.

“Brown-nosing”

That nervous laughter you hear is the sound of party activists responding to speculation that Barack Obama or John McCain might pick a vice presidential candidate from the opposing party.

More specifically, it is reaction to talk that Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.) is being seriously considered as a running mate for Barack Obama or that Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.), an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, is a potential choice for John McCain.

Hagel and Lieberman, both estranged from their own parties over their stances on the war in Iraq, are often mentioned as attractive candidates for the vice presidency for precisely that reason. Hagel, a Vietnam War veteran, would offer some degree of validation to Obama’s approach to Iraq, while Lieberman would do the same for McCain, with both offering the advantage of adding an air of bipartisanship to the ticket.