As the rain/sleet/snow continues to come down today, speculation is growing on the Internet about whom the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, will pick as his running mate for the fall campaign.  Blogger Rob Bluey has generated a list of 24 potential picks with some brief analysis. One of Connecticut’s leaders made it on the list:

Joe Lieberman: Picking McCain’s friend Joe Lieberman, an independent with strong foreign policy credentials, but who is weak everywhere else from a conservative point of view, would do even more damage to McCain with conservatives while burnishing his appeal to independents. Given how much trouble McCain is having with winning over conservatives, selecting Lieberman would be a particularly bad move, but you know, we are talking about “Maverick” John McCain here.

In the grand scheme of things that would absolutely inflame the Ned Lamont wing of the Democratic Party in Connecticut, putting Joe on the Republican ticket for Vice President would have to be near the top of the list, I would think.