Lieberman to Endorse McCain
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The Weekly Standard reports Connecticut's Independent Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman will endorse Republican John McCain for president.
Coupled with today's newspaper endorsements, Lieberman's backing improves the odds for McCain's resurgent campaign. New Hampshire is critical for McCain:
"We've got to win New Hampshire," he says, or at least exceed expectations there. "And then I think we can do well in South Carolina. In South Carolina we've got the base this time.
Some might wonder if Lieberman is looking for a cabinet position. I think Lieberman's endorsement has more to do with both Senators steadfastness on the war.
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But this highlights a string of endorsements for McCain from LIBERAL sources.
Think long and hard about that, fellow conservatives.
Fred or Mitt.
Please would someone close to Lieberman convince him to switch to the Republican Party so we can regain the Senate! If not just for the sheer pleasure it would be to watch the liberal media go mad afterwards!
I'm leaning back towards McCain nowadays. My first choice is still Fred Thompson, but McCain is a close second. The others I fear.
"The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."
- Karl von Clausewitz
Even if Lieberman switches parties it would not switch control! The 2001 situation was different because Democrats, when Al Gore was still VP, passed a resolution stating if someone switched parties then they could vote for new caucus leaders. There was no such resolution passed in 2006.
You are stuck with Harry Reid until 2008 and most likely until 2010.
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Notice to All - I am an independent who has voted for Senator Bayh (Democrat) and Senator Lugar (Republican) along with over 60% of my state. You may take what I say with a grain of salt at your own party'
Jonb,
Come on. Fred is going no where and has no motivation to ho anywhere. Romney CANNOT win a national election. We need to be a little pragmatic in who we pick.
Rudy, Huck, and John all fracture the party in different ways.
None of them will maintain the coalition needed to win.
Being pragmatic means going with one of those who will hold it together. Fred or Mitt.
Are you expecting Tancredo to run as an independent? Aside from serious border nuts, I am not sure who would refuse to vote for McCain. Is global warming and campaign finance reform going to be that big an issue between McCain and Obama/Clinton?
-Ben
For everyone who is put off by endorsements from unconventional sources, forget for a second it's John McCain. He's pro-life, great on spending, even better on the war. He's not some squish Republican that the media usually loves. He's not Chuck Hagel. Here's a conservative who is getting liberal endorsements. Nominating McCain could be our only chance at keeping the White House.
Great points. By the way, we passed over McCain for GW Bush in 2000 because GW was supposedly the real conservative.
But:
GW signed campaign finance reform.
GW and McCain both supported amnesty.
And GW was a bigger spender and expanded government more than anyone expected and more than McCain would have had he been in the White House.
My point is there is not much difference b/w GW and McCain. If you like Bush (and I still do), McCain is a more fiscally restrained version.
Bush signed
MCCAIN/Feingold. It is called that for a reason.
If you have problems with Bush you will have problems with McCain.
That is why it is Fred or bust for me. I will only vote Fred in the primary. There is no other candidate that I will even consider until Fred says he is through.
I will worry about November when it gets here.
Not a bad weekend for McCain. He is picking up some serious Joe-mentum.
As a Rudy and/or Fred supporter, McCain is starting to look good. Neverthought I would say it, since McCain never ceased to sticking a thumb in our eye or sanctimoniously lectured against my visceral response to torture the sh** out of terrorists.
Fred has been lackluster until recently, and while I loved Rudy as mayor, some of those answers at the last debate reminded me of the times when his politics irked me.
But enduring 5 years of torture, and declining offers to come home early, earn him the right to state his moral position on the matter without being called sanctimonious.
"sanctimony n. Feigned piety or righteousness; hypocritical devoutness or high-mindedness."
"If all men were just, there would be no need of valor."
- Agesilaus
behold the nutroots' impotent fury!
anyone think there's a potential veep spot in this for Joe? I'd have to think the odds are long (Pawlenty seems the most likely pick for McCain should he get the nomination), but it might be just what we need to get the country unified to kick back the traitorous defeatocrat scum and their media henchmen once and for all.
this just seals McCain's status as my backup, should he by some chance still be viable and Mitt not when we vote in Texas.
K. Sliwiak
When John and Joe came back from their jaunt to Iraq together, they looked like they were running one and two.
They are senate colleagues, pro-war, and they both put a premium on personal honor. That, and there's nobody on the Dem side that Joe is likely to be able to stomach.
And yes, this will help McCain, in NH if nowhere else.
Hang all traitors and secessionists! Hang them high!
- Me
I expect Lieberman will say something like, "I have known and respected John McCain for many years, and his service to this country in more ways than most of us can imagine speaks for itself. He and I probably disagree on at least as many issues as we agree on, but we agree 100% that the most important issue we face today is the global war on terror. If we lose that war, none of the freedoms we have fought for the past 230+ years will matter. Of all the candidates running in either party, Senator McCain has the best experience, determination, and temperament to fight and win this war for our country's future existence. Therefore I heartily endorse his candidacy for the 2008 Presidential nomination."
The interesting scenario is what if McCain ends up President AND we still have a Senate that is split as it is today? Would Lieberman then decide he needs to caucus with the GOP, as otherwise the Dems would just block what Lieberman had fought for? What if Lieberman caucused with the GOP and then left the Senate to join the cabinet and was replaced with a left-wing Democrat? Would the GOP keep the Senate and Committee leaderships/numbers for the remaining two years even though they no longer had a majority?
Yippee. One democrat endorses another.
Big deal.
According to the Boston Globe, McCain "deserves the opportunity to represent his party in November’s election."
Really. He does. Boston Globe said.
In 2004, I thought Lieberman "deserved" the chance to represent the Dems, but the Boston Globe wasn't too keen on him.
I guess we don't get to pick the other party's nominee.
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both sides of a corrupt Washington elite in bed together.
Joe and John are just todays example of that.
...conservative weblogs and trying to push your rather sad, and increasingly discredited agenda. Not In Your Name, troll.
Blam.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
This is good news.
Lieberman has been a stauch critic of the Democrat leadership. For those of us who believe national security is the most important issue facing this nation, we really respect Joe Lieberman. This will help McCain among R's and it may get more I's to vote in the NH primary.