Citizens for McCain
My favorite Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, has launched a new website titled Citizens for McCain in an attempt to persuade Hillary supporters into voting for Sen. McCain. Here’s what CNN is reporting:
Sen. Joe Lieberman, who has taken on increasingly high-profile campaign roles on behalf of presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, announced Thursday that he was launching and heading a new grassroots organization, “Citizens for McCain,” with a direct appeal to Hillary Clinton’s disappointed supporters.
“The phones at the campaign headquarters have been ringing with disaffected Democrats calling to say they believe Senator McCain has the experience, judgment, and bipartisanship necessary to lead our country in these difficult times,” Lieberman wrote in a message sent to the Arizona senator’s supporters. “Many of these supporters are former supporters of Senator Clinton.”
Earlier this week, I wrote a post titled Obama’s Nightmare Scenario which reported that “the RNC’s convention office in St. Paul has received numerous telephone calls in the last few hours from people who identify themselves as Clinton supporters asking how they can help Sen. McCain.” One commenter was so upset that he essentially accused the RNC of lying about this.
I can’t understand how someone would think that considering the fact that exit polls from primary after primary showed 25-35 percent of Hillary’s voters wouldn’t vote for Sen. Obama. Much of Hillary’s support came from blue collar workers, the group that Sen. Obama lost with his SF fundraising statements and the Jeremiah Wright tapes.
Here’s something else that Sen. Obama will likely have difficulty with:
“I am confident we will find many Democrats and Independents who, like John McCain and me, put country before political party and will support a leader with a real record of bipartisanship. Together, we will make history.”
It won’t be easy for Sen. Obama to make the case that he’s the postpartisan politician when Sen. McCain can point to a much larger group of bipartisan initiatives than Sen. Obama.
Technorati Tags: Hillary, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Obama, Republicrats, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
June 5th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Maybe I’m wrong, but doesn’t Lieberman have something to do with that scam “Cap and Trade”?
June 5th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
He’s co-sponsoring it.
Pretty rich, huh? Congress has a big investigation into gas prices so all the usual suspects can get their face time with NBC to go bow-wow and woof-woof, like they really care. Then turn around and tax us another trillion bucks.