The Boston Globe is nice to have. The Des Moines Register, within the context of this campaign, is even better. But today, John McCain got the best endorsement of all — that of my main man Joe Lieberman.
This is a big deal, and not because of how it might affect this campaign. It’s a big deal because of the hope it offers for this country. For those of us who despise the way the two major parties are tearing our country apart, a figure such as Joe Lieberman, who has shown how the partisan stranglehold can be broken, takes on great significance, auguring a much better future.
For these two to get together is like — well it’s even better than Batman teaming up with Superman. I mean; that’s a matchup you expect, right? It’s more like Spiderman teaming up with Superman — a Marvel-DC matching up of separate universes for the sake of truth, justice and the American way. (For you who sneer at pop culture, think Odysseus making common cause with Gilgamesh, or maybe Samson with Hercules.)
It affirms so much of what is right in American politics — that is, it affirms what can be right about American politics, if only we will recognize the alternative it offers to the sickening Punch and Judy show that Democrats and Republicans stage day after day on 24/7 TV "news."
Maybe we just took a big step forward toward what David Brooks wrote about so promisingly in 2006 — the formation of the McCain/Lieberman party. Could we be on the verge of actually seeing this party take shape as more than a theory? Will there finally be a real choice for the rest of us?
I have long refused, adamantly, to be identified with Dems or Repubs, left or right. But McCain/Lieberman — that’s my kind of party. You are free to quote me on that.
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the democrats just got paid back for helping joe back to a six-year term, which they did in order to beat back an antiwar challenger. at the time, the dems just wanted to let the reps blow up on their own. oops. joe, on his part, shows either a deep opportunistic streak or a devotion to israeli strategy that supersedes mere party interests in the u.s. yuck. this all affirms the worst of american politics.
Brad, I’m happy for you, because I know how you feel about both these guys. The bipartisan movement is just getting revved up, though. This
example and this one don’t quite rise to the level of the Lieberman endorsement, but they do hint at which Democratic candidate might have the greatest pull across party lines.
You have got to be kidding. Lieberman has about as much as an influence on any race as does the wind. Only Joe and the trumpets at Fox thinks he matters as much as he thinks he does. He is clearly not as neutral or bi-partisan as he and his mouths at Fox would have anyone believe. Joe is all about one thing and that’s Joe. Lieberman has been more supportive and vocal for GOP issues than some in the GOP themselves and often engaging in the same rhetoric for which you claim he is above. Lieberman has even openly threaten/stated that he would readliy change to the GOP if he felt inclined to do so. Hardly a neutral or altruistic position for the democracy.
Lieberman is jockeying for the VP slot on the GOP as he is toast with the Democratic party. He knows that next year, once the Democrats pick up at least one more seat in the Senate, (and all sensible pollsters say that this is very likely) Joe’s vote won’t be needed for a majority and Joe is going be sent packing from the caucus while losing all of his covetted committee seats. Lieberman knows it won’t be much fun to be in the Senate with no microphone, no party, no majority, no interviews and no sway so he’s looking for an out. He’s looking out for Joe and not you and me.
McCain/Lieberman? It won’t matter much. You could run the exhumed body of Reagan against the current crop of Democrats and still wind up with the same ammount of insuffient electoral votes needed to win in 2008. The GOP in 2008 is just going to be one more casualty in the wake of George W. Bush. The GOP should look beyond 2008 and try to salvage what they can now by ditching the neo-con and theo-con platforms or else face another 40 years being on the outside looking in.
But McCain/Lieberman — that’s my kind of party.
-Brad
We could call it the War-Monger party. Some suggestions for a party slogan:
Death, Destruction, Denial. America’s Destiny.
The Way Forward through Needless Killing in the Middle East.
Halliburton and Blackwater Forever.
Abu-Ghraib, Model for America’s Future.
Have you been holding out on us Brad? Did you secretly attend the last Bilderberg meeting? A McCain/Lieberman ticket would be a dream come true for the New World Order. Wait a minute they are not actually on the same ticket? Well they might as well be. In a rich vs poor or master vs slave world there is no middle to compromise. They alinate their parties even as they serve their corporate masters.
Come on South Carolina shake up the Masters of the Universe vote Ron Paul for President. Let’s not ” reason” away the rest of our jobs, sovereignty and sanity.
Can’t say as I’ve been to a Bilderberg meeting — or been invited, for that matter. I HAVE been invited a number of times to Phil Lader’s “Renaissance” weekends, but haven’t gone for two good reasons: I can’t afford it, and they’re off the record. My main motive in going would be to write about it, so what’s the point.
Nor, according to this list (which is by no means fully inclusive, of course), have either McCain or Lieberman attended. I did find both the Clintons, and John Edwards, on the list though. And Chris Dodd, who in my book is sort of the anti-Lieberman. Apparently McCain (and Al Gore) have spoken to the group.
Given the chaotic, mercurial nature of our politics, it’s always amusing to read about these grand conspiracy theories about secretive elite groups actually running the world… the Trilateral Commission, etc. Going by what actually happens in the world, if there’s a group behind the scenes pulling the strings, it must be the Three Stooges.
My favorite? The Pentavirate, as elaborated by Stuart Mackenzie: