Reply #37: I'm not so sure about that:

[madinmaryland]

If Jodi Rell is re-elected as governor and Lieberman happens to get elected as Senator, I am not sure that Lieberman would accept the position of Sec of Defense. As much as he has bolted from the Dem party, I don't think he would allow the Senate to fall back to the repub's or to even give them an additional seat. I beleive he still wants to be part of the democratic caucus and not part of the repubs and that he thinks that either he or Ned Lamont will win, thus keeping his seat in the Blue.

While a comparison can be made to his 2000 position, he was not picked for VP until shortly before CT was scheduled to have their primary, and thus all of the major state democrats were out of contention, which could have allowed Phil Giordano to be elected. :scared: