OK. Let's for the moment assume that this story about Lieberman being vetted for McCain's running mate is true. It immediately begs two questions. One is why St. John the Insane would do something 100 and 10 percent guaranteed to have right-wing conservative heads exploding all across America. Two is why would Lieberman accept.
The first answer is that McCain's advisers know that, the polls not withstanding, McCain is a fair number of electoral votes short of winning at the moment. They also know that even if he manages to woo the entire Christian conservative wing of the Republican party he still needs an awful lot of independent voters to win. And he also gets to re-assume the mantle of Senator Maverick...going against the will of his party...reaching across the aisle...putting country first...blahblahblahblahblah.
And for Senator Lugubrious? That's easy. The treacherous, traitorous little putz from Connecticut has never gotten over losing the Democratic primary in 2006 for the Senate. He also must have the biggest man tits in the world since he has managed to nurse that grudge for over two years. He won the election in 2006 solely because the Republicans poured tens of thousands of dollars into his campaign and in addition did nothing to help their own Republican candidate. Rove & Co. knew that Lieberman could be their ace in the hole for their remaining time in power as he could be counted upon to aid and abet their cause as he had been doing since 2002.
And two-faced scum that he is, he assured the Dems that he would caucus with them but that was only to guarantee his seniority in the Senate and keep his chairmanship. So for the last two years, he has had the Dems by the short and curlies. In order for the Dems to control the Senate they had to have Lieberman. But the hand-writing is on the wall and Lieberman knows that after the election in November, the Dems will have won enough seats to shore up their majority and little Joey will be on the outside looking in.
His acceptance of the vice-presidential slot on the Republican ticket would bring an end to the charade once and for all. That would be too much even for feckless Harry Reed to tolerate. And the immediate consequence of that would be that the Senate would be thrown into chaos for the remainder of its current session. It's a win-win for Rove's handmade sock puppet. He gets to strut across the national stage one again and screw the Democrats at the same time. He is a sad pathetic creature. But just remember...
Hell hath no fury like a Joe Lieberman scorned.
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