Just Asking: Everybody Hates Joe?

The Left has nicknamed him "Traitor Joe" for bolting from the party and time and again supporting the Bush administration. The Right warns he'll destroy the conservative movement if he's put on the ticket. HIs approval rating has fallen to an all time low in his home state of Connecticut. And yet John McCain may yet select Joe Lieberman as his running mate.

True, his unabashed Bush/McCain cheer-leading over the past year, in tandem with his pro-choice beliefs (see Liza's piece), might lure independents and women voters in the general election. There's something to the theory that if you're pissing everybody off, you must be doing something right. Still, I just don't see Lieberman, who will speak at the GOP convention, as a guy that many people will be excited about.

Though McCain has reportedly already decided who he'll select for his VP (to be announced on his 72nd birthday), the question today regards the former Democratic vice-presidential nominee.