Since We Already Suspect It’s Going to Happen…
Aug 4th, 2007 at 8:19 am by PSoTD
The timing is about right for Democrats to start stating the obvious suspicion: Joe Lieberman will endorse a Republican Candidate for President in 2008. There’s no reason to cede news value to the Republicans for such an “announcement” next year, when some regular drumbeating of this political opportunity for Lieberman can easily reduce it. Democrats shouldn’t be concerned that by doing so now they will appear to be “moderating” the Republican candidates, but should be concerned that a Lieberman announcement of support of the Republican nominee next year will be reacted to by the shallow national media in such a way.
In short - the likelihood is too great that Lieberman will support ANY REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT in 2008 over ANY DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT in 2008 to ignore until it happens. It won’t be about people, but about power, and about Lieberman’s future political opportunities. Rather than act dismayed when it does happen, Democrats should be honest in the news media - and repetitively vocal - about why Joe Lieberman may just do that next year.
I think Joe’s plan is to run for pres as a republican
If only Joe had switched parties and ran in the Republican primaries in 2004 against Bush. He could have really served his country by weakening Bush and thereby helping Kerry to be elected.
The Night of the Living Lieberman…
A few days ago I posted this guest post at Susie’s:
The timing is about right for Democrats to sta……
[...] posted his concerns at Susie’s when he was blog-sitting, and when he got home he asked his blogroll to post about Joe LIEberman [...]
I have posted a response to this.