Unity 2008

More signs that a McCain/Lieberman independent "unity" ticket might be a factor in 2008, as another journalist hails Lieberman's independent candidacy.  This snippet is particulaly telling:

This morning, at our not-so-swank hotel in the always-swanky Beverly Hills, a copy of the USA Today landed outside my room. I came across a letter to the editor from a man in British Columbia calling on Sen. Lieberman to withdraw from his Senate race so as not to divide the Democratic party and leave Ned Lamont a clear shot at his Senate seat. “Let’s hope Lieberman will see the error of running as an independent and allow a candidate who is against President Bush’s war to win,” he wrote.

I am not sure what it means when the largest daily newspaper in the United States, with “USA” in its name no less, needs to publish a letter from a Canadian calling on a sitting U.S. senator to deny Connecticut voters a say in who represents them in Congress.

The more the literatti denounce an independent Lieberman, the more mainstream America will rethink the two party system.  I'm not saying that, in the long run, this is a good thing or a bad thing.  It just is.  But short term, a McCain presidency would be a disaster!

Comments

[Rivrdog]

Kim DuToit has an excellent post up on this subject over at The Other Side of Kim.

[Patrick Joubert Conlon]

I'm dead against third parties but a bipartisan ticket is not an unmitigated evil and might heal the nation sick of partisan bickering. Lieberman of course is a big-spending liberal and McCain - well - I'll hold my nose.

[Patrick Joubert Conlon]

I'm dead against third parties but a bipartisan ticket is not an unmitigated evil and might heal the nation sick of partisan bickering. Lieberman of course is a big-spending liberal and McCain - well - I'll hold my nose.