WI Vice-President Lieberman?

While the US Constitution does not specifically disallow a president and a vice-president from the same state, it does prohibit members of the electoral college from casting both of their votes for persons from the same state. Accordingly, Cheney—who had been a resident of Texas for nearly 10 years—changed his voting registration back to Wyoming. Had Cheney not done this, either he or Governor Bush would have forfeited their electoral votes from the Texas electors, a situation which—given the eventual razor-thin margin of victory for the Republicans that year—would have almost certainly resulted in Democratic Vice-President Lieberman serving under a Republican President Bush.

so what if it slipped Cheney's mind to change his registration? or if no one had thought of it? what would happen if Lieberman beat Cheney in the electoral college?
 
so what if it slipped Cheney's mind to change his registration? or if no one had thought of it? what would happen if Lieberman beat Cheney in the electoral college?

I suspect they would have figured out some kind of a deal to get a Republican in. Nobody wants to go back to the whole 18th Century disaster of a system. (With the possible exception of Antonin Scalia, regressive hack that he is. :mad:)
 
Given the warmonger Lieberman has become, who knows, maybe it's a match made in heaven for the two? Other than Cheney, he's probably the biggest cheerleader for the Iraq war, and on top of that he's an uber-Likudnik.
 
I suspect they would have figured out some kind of a deal to get a Republican in.

To 2008 eyes, such a comment sounds rather ironic, given Lieberman's loud apostasy and general...well, unpleasantness.

If he did become veep, he can expect no influence. The veep has as much influence as the president allows, and Bush could be expected to hold him on a very tight lead. The real question is 'No Cheney', and that would be complicated. Colin Powell takes the fore in the administration...and who knows how that would shift foreign policy?

Interesting theory: what if Lieberman was the hawkish influence on the administration and Powell the calming influence?
 
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