Andrew Sullivan's "Dream Ticket"

Sullivan has been blogging that a McCain-Lieberman 2008 White House run would be his idea of a "Dream Ticket" And he writes in the Sunday Times that:

"To complicate matters, and there is no polite way of putting this, Lieberman is sui generis. He is a pompous, self-righteous ass. His moralising and self-importance, his lame performance in the 2000 election (which gave him an even more inflated sense of his own gravitas), and his enmeshment with the Washington establishment, does not fit the mood of a restive electorate."

I'm not sure what to make of this assessment -- I don't see how it supports Sullivan's idea of a dream ticket. Lieberman won't help McCain with his problems with the Republican base and it is doubtful he'd attrack any more Democratic moderates that McCain could probably already have a decent shot of wooing on his own. And, given McCain's age, does Sully really want to put someone he has thus described a heartbeat away from the big job itself?

Bottom line, though, is the fact that for all the hyperventilating and bloviating that goes on regarding veep picks -- the veep selection won't win the White House. It's all up to the top of ticket. The most a veep pick can do is hurt the ticket. It can't really help it.