McCain + Lieberman = Bob Barr at 15% ?

August 15th, 2008 10:59 am  |  by  |  Published in Election, Politics, Polling  |  0

Newt Gingrich appeared on Fox News’Hannity and Colms last night and speculated that if John McCain chooses Senator Lieberman for his running mate it would allow Bob Barr to pull away much of his conservative support and Bob Barr could end up with 15% of the vote.

GINGRICH: Well, I like Senator Lieberman a great deal. I admire him a lot. I think he’d be a great secretary of state. I think he would be terrific as an attorney general, but I think the idea of him being the Republican vice presidential nominee would split the convention, would probably mean that Bob Barr would get about 15 percent of the vote.

HANNITY: Wow.

GINGRICH: Because I think — I think that traditional values, right-to- life conservatives would walk. I mean I think they literally.

HANNITY: Yes.

GINGRICH: [They] would walk out of the convention in a way that would be unmanageable by the McCain people.

If, for some reason, you’d like to see what else Newt had to say, you can see the full transcript on his web site.

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