(h/t Think Progress) I’d had a feeling for a while that McCain and Lieberman had made a deal, and now that McCain is all but out of the race, here come the neocons to try and rescue Lieberman. I can’t wait for the staffers w/ knowledge of all this to start talking with Bob Woodward about it. The beltway writers didn’t seem willing to point out or even aware of how the senator’s positions appeared to be so closely aligned with McCain’s, and typical of the beltway echo chamber, Lieberman’s gravitation towards power - this Greenspan-esque character flaw of his - wasn’t given the attention it deserved. Presidential politics regularly ravage the minds of human beings, never moreso than when someone who was at the top suddenly finds himself at the bottom in the blink of an eye. After failing to come close to the nomination in 2004 or a VP slot on Kerry’s ticket, Lieberman went out hunting for coattails willing to drag him along. McCain took him in, and seemingly overnight, Lieberman became a Teddy Ruxpin doll loaded up with a tape of familiar talking points.  He has taken it to the extreme, and if his goal of attaining Presidential power isn’t advanced at all following the 2008 election, expect him to either drift off into obscurity or immediately identify the Republican with the best chance to win in 2012 and do the same thing that he did with McCain this time around.Â
I don’t think any writers pre-dated my assertion below.Â
Al on 7/17/2007 – In terms of the latter, Senators McCain and Lieberman, whose backroom deal to share a Presidential ticket having been made (my gut tells me this) a long time ago, who now flail and sputter violent predictions of what’s to come, how it would be fun to kill Persians for a while, yet assessing Iraq’s security situation today as positive, reassuring, not so bad, safe…
And now we have the circumstantial evidence to go along with this theory:
Say It’s So, Joe
Vice President Lieberman?
by William Kristol – Weekly Standard, 11/19/2007, Volume 013, Issue 10