H/T to Memeorandum for the link to Bill Kristol’s message that Lieberman will appear with McCain in New Hampshire on Monday at which time he will endorse his candidacy. This could be an important endorsement for the independants. Mike Allen at Politico has this to say:
Noting Liberman’s appeal among unaffiliated voters in the 2004 Democratic primary, a top McCain aide said the Connecticut senator’s backing “gives credence to, and more horsepower behind, our ‘Independents for McCain’ effort in New Hampshire and nationally.”
Independents are an important factor in New Hampshire, and McCain, who won the state in 2000, is now depending on them.
The announcement looks like an effort to stem a stream of independents moving to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)
For McCain, the good news is coming in threes. The announcement follows endorsements of McCain on Sunday by the Des Moines Register and the Boston Globe.
David Freddoso asks “Is this the coup de grace for Rudy?”
A year later, I’m still proud that CT Democrats had the good sense to get rid of him.
I totally respect Lieberman’s endorsement of McCain. This is the Joe Lieberman that we have seen emerge since the 2000 election. These two gentlemen have worked closely over the years, and I feel this is the first step in breaking the party politics as usual gridlock that we see daily.
Does this do Maverick any good, though? New Hampshire famously loves its independents and there’s no one more independent right now than Liebs, but this leaves McCain open to attacks from Romney to the effect that only a true RINO would actually be endorsed by the other party. Maybe he gets a small boost from it on balance ” unless he does something dramatic at tomorrow’s presser along the lines of what Glenn suggests. Imagine: Liebs endorses McCain, whereupon McCain steps to the mike and endorses Liebs for vice president if he’s nominated. That’d create the kind of buzz McCain desperately needs right now to close on Mitt and would also steal some of the mystique that’s been surrounding Bloomberg as a potential above the fray, nonpartisan alternative. He should do it. He’s got nothing to lose.
The left is going nuts as you can imagine:
This is not surprising to me — it’s just two of your father’s Oldsmobiles sticking together.
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More proof that McCain is a RINO.
I don’t think McCain is a RINO necessarily. My personal opinion of McCain is that having come back from being a POW in Vietnam for 9 years he got into politics and vowed to be bipartisan believing that was his calling.
That’s not to say I agree with everything he’s done. I don’t. I just see him more as having a conservative background with a willingness to compromise. I also see Lieberman as a bipartisan so it’s really not surprising he’s endorsing McCain. Whether or not McCain gets the nomination I believe Lieberman endorsing him is a good thing.
Personally I wish more of them would work out issues in a civilized, compromising way but based on history that will most likely never happen.
wWhy in the world would a liberal demacrat support a republican must be a ploy<):)
While I may like McCain and Lieberman on a personal level, McCain has simply been on the wrong side of far too many issues in his efforts to be “bipartisan” for me. He may be my senior senator, but I’m really hoping that we can find a real conservative to replace him the next time he comes up for reelection. For a Senator from Arizona to be as oblivious to what the illegal aliens have done to this state as he is, is unconscionable. His McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform bill that allows (Democratic supporting) labor unions and Soros funded 527s to donate without restrictions while preventing the ( normally Republican supporting) NRA from doing so is another example of his being bipartisan to the detriment of his own party.