Gambit and speculation
Joe Lieberman: the last real American Democrat?
Lieberman to endorse McCain
Surprising, and yet not surprising at all. He finally gets his revenge on the left, something he’s been flirting with publicly since January and which now comes not so much as an early Christmas gift to the nutroots than as a flaming bag of dog crap left on their collective porch. They won’t miss him: No Democrat wants the endorsement of the party’s last true hawk, least of all the suspiciously hawkish Hillary, which is why Bill Clinton will forgive him for not backing her despite BJ having gone to bat for him against Ned Lamont. No surprise that Liebs would go with McCain, either, as not only have the two of them been putting out jointly authored op-eds on Iraq for the past few months but periodic statements like this make the aforementioned flaming bag burn that much more brightly.
No fan of McCain, I, not by any stretch. McCain has only a slightly better chance of snagging the Republican nomination than I myself do, I think. But if the Stupid Party nominates Huckabee, a Lieberman/McCain independent ticket might begin to look very attractive indeed, to a lot of people. Or if not entirely attractive, at least the most palatable alternative to the now-major parties’ two-sides-of-the-same-worthless-liberal-coin choices, anyway.
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