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Originally Posted by pan6467
McCain may make Lieberman Secretary of the Treasury or something. He may jump the aisle and find someone like a Mario Cuomo for secretary of the Interior or whatever. Those would e nice choices and I do think Lieberman will most definitely be in his cabinet somewhere... Cuomo not so much but one can dream.
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Candidates often reward their top campaign advisers with cabinet appointments.
The two most likely McCain cabinet members mentioned are former Sen. Phil Gramm, who is his chief economic adviser, as Sec of Treasury...which would mean more supply side economics focused on tax breaks for top taxpayers and corporations.
And
Randy Scheunamann, who is his top national security adviser, as his WH National Security Adviser....
Randy Scheunemann was the President of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was created by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), of which he is a board member. He was Trent Lott's National Security Aide and was an advisor to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq. He is 2008 U.S. presidential candidate John McCain's foreign-policy aide.
....more of the same neo-con foreign policy.
Cuomo in a McCan cabinet? Poor Mario would have nightmares tonight if he heard that suggestion!
Lieberman maybe, but I doubt you would see any other current senators in his cabinet....its hard to emphasize enough how many of his colleagues dislike the man personally, while campaiging for him publicly.