Vice President Dick Cheney and turncoat Senator Joe Lieberman, who are former debating partners, are the opening night speakers at the Republican National Convention on Sept. 1. I guess Frankenstein and Dracula were not available.
Cheney and Lieberman are enough to have millions of Americans throw their televisions out the window. Are there any more despicable politicians than Cheney and Lieberman? One stands for all that is secret and sinister. The other is the political poster boy for treachery. Cheney is the mastermind of everything wrong with the Bush Administration. And anybody forced to stay awake through lapdog Lieberman’s speech is going to wonder what in the world does John McCain see in the former Democrat from Connecticut. Talk of Lieberman as a potential McCain running mate quickens the pulse of every Obama supporter. Lieberman can’t even reel in the Jewish vote these days, according to a survey of 800 American Jews conducted by J Street last month. Lieberman, who was very popular among Jews when he ran with Al Gore in 2000, scores a whopping 48 percent disapproval rating in the survey. He is liked by 37 percent of the respondents. That favorability rating comes from Jewish Republicans. They gave Lieberman a 65 percent thumbs-up rating. Only a quarter of Jewish Democrats in the poll like “JoMo,” while less than half (45 percent) of Independents think favorably of the Senator.
Lieberman is a loser on the GOP ticket, and will certainly lose his chairman seat on the Senate’s Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee once the Democrats pick up five or six more seats following the November vote. Connecticut Joe currently has the Democrats’ number since he is their tie-breaking vote. It will be sweet revenge for the Dems to bounce Lieberman. It would have been even sweeter had the ardent anti-war Ned Lamont whipped Lieberman in the `06 election. One bets a big majority in the Nutmeg State curse the day they pulled the lever for Lieberman.
Former Clinton aide Paul Begala believes today's Lieberman is a natural fit for Republicans. “Joe will be very happy in the Republican party where the dominant ethic is selfishness---he’s just like Barry Bonds when it comes to selfishness,” reports Politico.
McCain and the Republicans would be much better served with Bonds at the podium in Minneapolis rather than Lieberman.