DownWithTyranny!
Bob Novak's latest gossip column has a couple of paragraphs about the long-standing Lieberman-McCain romance. McCain was just one of many Republicans who endorsed and campaigned for Lieberman after he was rejected by Connecticut primary voters last year. While John Edwards enthusiastically and whole-heartedly campaigned for Ned Lamont, the Clintons and Obama only reluctantly and tepidly backed the grassroots nominee of their party. Lieberman was able to win because Rove-- at the behest of Bush and Cheney who were appreciative of Lieberman's complete support of all their most aggressive actions regarding war, torture, terror, etc-- made it clear to Republican voters that they were not to vote for the official GOP candidate but for Lieberman instead. And Lieberman's been repaying the Bush Regime ever since.
There has been some speculation lately that he would be McCain's VP nominee. McCain would love it but he's afraid that Republican voters-- many of whom already distrust and even despise the Arizona senator-- would never swallow Lieberman who often votes with Democrats on a few issues.
Close advisers of Sen. John McCain say there is no possibility that Independent Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman would be McCain's vice presidential running mate on the Republican ticket.
McCain credits Lieberman's endorsement for president last month as triggering his turnaround in New Hampshire, leading to victory in that state's primary last Tuesday. In addition, McCain and Lieberman are friends who admire each other personally. Nevertheless, Lieberman still votes the straight Democratic line in the Senate on nearly all issues except Iraq, and McCain's advisers feel Lieberman never would be accepted by the Republican Party.
A footnote: When Lieberman endorsed McCain, Democratic friends called his office seeking reassurance that he was endorsing McCain only for the Republican nomination and not actually the office of president. No, they were told, this was a real presidential endorsement.
Lieberman has stabbed the Clintons in the back several times but they still keep kissing up to him. They deserve each other. As for Obama... Lieberman was his offical Senate mentor after he was elected. Once when Obama got into a tussle with McCain, Lieberman got him to back down. But even if Lieberman will be campaigning against Obama if he wins the Democratic primary, the most reactionary Democrat in the whole Senate, the only Democrat who votes with Republicans more than with Democrats on substantive matters, Nebraska's arch-conservative Ben Nelson came out and endorsed Obama. He says he likes his bipartisan approach. But if anyone cares to compare their voting records, Obama's is considerably to the right of Hillary's. She's the Senate's 29th most progressive voter. He's #43-- worse even than reactionaries like Max Baucus (MT), Ken Salazar (CO) and Blanche Lincoln (AR). Only 6 Democrats (+ Lieberman) vote more frequently with the GOP than Obama. So anyone-- usually between the ages of 18 and 25-- who has sipped the Obama Kool-Aid and think he's more progressive than Hillary, let alone Edwards... look at the facts.
UPDATE: WHERE IS THE LOVE?
I made a little clip today and realized it kind of works with the above... a little.
