Joe Lieberman begins to suggest that you are probably not a bad guy.
For a year or more, Joe the Liar has stood by the side of his longtime friend and political confidant, John McCain. Joe the Liar has offered words of encouragement, a formal endorsement...and rarely missed an opportunity to incorporate into his support of McCain, an unending series of slams, slurs and slights all aimed at the bullseye which McCain and McLiar had drawn squarely in the middle of the back of Senator Barack Obama.
And why not?
Joe the Liar has not been a Democrat since the Party opted to support Ned Lamont in a Primary Election Campaign against Liarman in 2006.
Some would say that Joe the Liar had really left the Party immediately after his losing bid for the Vice Presidency in 2000, after some significant number of Party Insiders privately suggested that the mere presence of Senator Liarman was as responsible for the Gore loss, as were the State of Florida, Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris and the Supreme Court, combined.
Regardless of the specific moment in time when Joe the Liar actually exited the Democratic Party, Liarman continued to attempt to necessarily straddle the only political line he had left. The vast majority of Republicans, even those who support his unconscionable stand on the Iraq War, neither trusted Joe, nor could stand to attend the same Rubber Chicken Dinners.
This would be the primary reason why the McCain Senior Staff essentially vetoed the selection of both Tom Ridge and Joe the Liar, in favor of Sarah Tundra Trash.
During that interim period between Senator Liarman formally becoming an Independent Republican, and still caucusing with Senate Democrats...Joe the Liar was permitted by Harry Reid to maintain his Committe Chairmanships, and other stations with the Protocol of the Democratic Party. This was fine with Joe the Liar. Had he formally changed jerseys, he would have had to start at the bottom of the Republican Senatorial Totem Pole...and likely assigned to the Senate Committee on Investigating Ted Stevens...which has actually never held a hearing.
At the same time, Harry Reid needed Joe the Liar as part of the Democratic Caucus, in order to remain secure in the ever so slight majoroty which the Democrats continue to hold.
Enter John Sidney McCain.
So...Campaign Brass would never let Joe the Liar formally join in any Reindeer Games. Had they done so...and McCain actually won the 2008 Presidential Election...Liarman would of course no longer needed harry Reid or the Democratic Party, and would have been literally home free. Quite naturally, the next best thing, for Joe the Liar, would be to have McCain be the voice of Joe the Puppetmaster...in which case, Liarman becomes Secretary of State in a McCain Administration...and who cares about his seat in the Seante at that point, anyway?
If McCain loses the 2008 Presidential Election...with Joe the Liar NOT part of the ticket, officically...Joe goes back to his Senate Seat, and, even though Harry Reid might not need Liarman to make his majority at that time, Reid would certainly need The Connecticut Prevaricator, in order to get to as close as possible to that filibuster-proof number of sixty.
So much for the best laid plans of mice and rats.
Nine days before the Presidential Election, Republicans are treating McCain as though he had just passed gas in the elevator. Al Franken, Mark Warner, Tom Udall, Mark Udall, Jeanne Shaheen, Kay Hagan, Jeff Merkley, Bruce Lunsford, Jim Martin, Ronnie Musgrove, are all leading or within the margin of error. Ted Stevens may be a convicted felon before the jury goes home on Monday. And, even Scott Kleeb, from Nebraska is on the verge of bringing his own Senatorial Race to within a single digit margin.
And, what do we hear NOW, from Joe the Liar?
Nothing more than his next chorous of The Tenessee Two-Stepm where he wants the world to know that when he was asked if Obama was a Muslim...and a Terrorist Sympathizer...and, Joe the Liar said that he really did not know the answer to either question...he still respected Senator Obama...EVEN AT THAT TIME.
Two months ago...I said that I would be ecstatic, if Barack Obama won this race by one Populat Vote, and with 270 Electoral Votes.
Then...the Market crashed, banks closed, 200 year old investment houses went away...and it became clear that for Barack Obama to do what needs to be done, immediately, without anyone standing in his way...he would need a far more significant mandate. And, according to plls...the American People agree and are responding in numbers which suggest a far more substantial victory.
However...at least to this Diarist...it is still not enough. I do not want just a 377 count Electoral Victory. I do not want a full 51% to 49% Popular margin.
It is my personal prayer, that barack Obama secures a high 50s Popular Vote Majority, 400 Electoral Votes, INCLUDING 1, from Omaha Nebraska...AND, that regardless of what happens in the House of Representatives...that the Seante Majority, including Bernie Sanders, totals 61.
Should this occur, I will become one of the largest individual contributors to the Democratic National Committee, IF, and only IF, Harry Reid will permit me to be either be present when HE tells Joe the Liar that his services are no longer either required, or requested, by the Democratic Caucus...OR, if Reid will go so far as to allow me to deliver the message to Benedict Lieberman, myself.