Frank Rich had a great column in Sunday's New York Times, "Palin and McCain's Shotgun Marriage". In it he states
[McCain] wanted to choose the pro-abortion-rights Joe Lieberman as his vice president. If he were still a true maverick, he would have done so. But instead he chose partisanship and politics over country. “God only made one John McCain, and he is his own man,” said the shafted Lieberman in his own tedious convention speech last week. What a pathetic dupe.
Here is the comment I posted.
“I felt that his speech was very intriguing, rather than tedious, as you described it. Quite a balancing act! I still feel that his super-sized ego has more to do with this than anything else. Given the way McCain has tacked to the right, much of what Lieberman said about him doesn't apply anymore.
However, Lieberman's comments about partisanship were straight out of Obama’s playbook.
As to your concluding point, it is indeed possible (and horrifying to contemplate) that McCain-Palin just might pull off their charade.”
I should add that, with Lieberman, McCain would be getting more than just pro-abortion rights, but rather most of the liberal Democratic agenda. For example, Lieberman voted against the confirmation of Samuel Alito as Supreme Court Justice. With McCain tacking to the right, McCain-Lieberman would resemble the Dukakis-Bentsen ticket of 1988. One thing is clear. McCain will do anything to get elected president. He refused to collaborate with his captors in North Vietnam, but he is willing to collaborate with those, like Karl Rove, who did him dirt in 2000. From which we may conclude that John McCain values becoming President more than life itself.
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