What if LIEBERMAN was the nominee?

[liberalpragmatist]

Okay, not exactly. But imagine that Al Gore had won in 2000 and won reelection in 2004 over, say, John McCain or Bill Frist.

What happens in 2008? Lieberman for sure runs for president, but do other bigwigs in the party -- a coalition of progressive activists, establishment Dems, State Dept-types try to recruit a challenger to him - say, John Kerry or an affair-less-still-Senator John Edwards or newly-elected Barack Obama (if he wins his Senate primary without the Iraq War as an issue)? Especially if Vice President Joe Lieberman had been a divisive figure within the Gore Administration, does Gore decline from endorsing (similar to how Reagan did not actually endorse Bush I during the '88 primary)?

And if that happens, and Kerry/Edwards/Durbin/Obama/whoever defeats Lieberman in the primary, what does Joe do? Does he refuse to accept the results and run as an independent in the General Election (under an "Americans For Joe" coalition) or does he endorse the Republican?

[musette_sf]

1. sounds like a Boojatta hypothetical mess to me n/t

[mikelgb]

2. a fantasy hindsight hypothetical?

why?

[tazkcmo]

3. And what if

I was on a cruise and missed confession on Saturday but then we crossed thr International dateline and it was Saturday again and got to confession, could I still have Communion on Sunday?

[brooklynite]

4. JOEMENTUM ran against the Democratic field in 2004

How'd that work out for him?