Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Veepstakes, cont'd.
Lieberman essentially puts in his bid for VP candidate with this very well-penned piece in today's WSJ. I must say it is a concise summary of how the Dem party has fallen on national security, and Obama wants to drag them down further.
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4 comments:
And Obama and his camp begin their backpeddling on exactly how they would handle diplomacy here.
I must say, his explanation is more twisted and tortured than a circus contortionist.
IF McCain selects a runningmate who voted against the confirmation of Justice Alito, I just might stay home altogether. That vote by Lieberman is indefensible, for so many reasons (the gravity of the vote, the collegiality/qualifications/intellectual heft of the nominee, the fact that the vote represents a complete surrender to the politicization of the confirmation process, etc.), and so diametrically opposed to where I stand on one of the most important stakes involved in this year’s election cycle, that I'm not sure I could do it.
If you voted against Alito or Roberts, you are simply the enemy as far as I am concerned.
Check out this post from Race 4 '08:
May 19th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Matt C Says:
Oh. My. Gosh.
How can we still be talking seriously about this?
Lieberman is a freaking liberal on every single issue out there except Iraq.
He gets a 100 rating from NARAL.
A 100 rating from Planned Parenthood.
A 0 rating from the National Right to Life.
That alone should automatically eliminate him from any hint of consideration.
He gets an F rating from the National Taxpayers Union.
A 15 from the American For Tax Reform.
The NRA gives Lieberman an F.
He gets a 0 from Gun Owners of America.
English First, U.S. Border Control, and the Federation for American Immigratino Reform all give him a big fat 0.
Plus, have we forgotten the McCain-Lieberman global warming legislation that would raise gas prices by 50 cents a gallon and cost 300,000 American jobs? Have we forgotten the McCain-Lieberman gun control bill from 6 years ago that led to both men getting “F” ratings from Gun Owners of America and makes McCain’s latest visit to the NRA look like a joke?
Make no mistake about it: McCain is moderate/liberal enough and particular issues by himself. With Lieberman on the ticket, combined with a Democratic Congress, he gets a free pass to play out all of those tendencies. He needs a conservative Vice President to reign him in.
Plus, we need someone who can lead the party in 2012 so we don’t have another wide open primary season like this one if McCain wins this year.
There is no question that picking Lieberman as his VP candidate would be a huge mistake: I think McCain would lose more conservative voters than he would pick up Indies and Dems. So my guess is he is unlikely to pick Lieberman. I'm hoping he goes Mitt, especially for financial reasons (both fundraising and adding economic creds to his ticket), but we'll see.
That said, you can all but guarantee that Lieberman WILL be in the cabinet. McCain has increasingly mentioned recently that he plans to put at least one or more Dems in his cabinet, and you know that starts with lieberman.