Sen. Joe Lieberman To Endorse John McCain
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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