Double gulp: Source says Lieberman’s staff busy building dossier on him; Update: “I’m not the guy,” says Biden; Update: Pawlenty leads short list?
posted at 4:55 pm on August 19, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Could have gone in the other thread as an update but that one’s already Dramamine-worthy. How apparently serious has the vetting process gotten? If Politico’s to be believed, serious enough that the research director of Joementum’s 2004 presidential campaign is involved:
Top aides to Joseph Lieberman have reached out to former staffers in recent days with “substanative questions” about the issue areas they worked on while working for the Connecticut senator, according to a source close to Lieberman…
Without saying defnitively that the information-gathering was being done to share with McCain’s campaign, this source said “it would be unusual if not in the context of being vetted.”…
Another strong clue is that one of the former aides contacted was Lori McGrogan.
A longtime Lieberman aide, McGrogan served as Research Director on the senator’s 2004 presidential bid where she was tasked with investigating her candidate’s record as well as those of his Democratic primary rivals.
Meanwhile, ABC corroborates NR’s report that not only were top McCain aides calling around to float the idea of a pro-choice VP yesterday but they’re still doing so today. Exit question: Have we officially reached crisis stage now? Time to start phoning Maverick HQ and begging them to cease and desist? It worked with amnesty! (Well, no, not with McCain it didn’t.)
Update: Might as well dump all the VP rumormongering into one thread. Granted, every potential nominee denies that they’re being considered, but would Biden really say something this definitive with Obama’s choice (allegedly) having already been made?
As he pulled out of the driveway in the driver’s seat of his car he then said to the press gathered near his gate, “You guys have better things to do. I’m not the guy.”
Update: It’s … it’s a head fake! “Some conservatives went so far today as to suggest that the McCain camp was raising the issue of naming a pro-choice running mate just as a way to woo moderates, even though he has no intention of doing so. And it all comes as we are receiving word from Republican and conservative officials that pro-life Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has moved to the top of McCain’s vice presidential short list.”
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I like the idea of Sarah Palin for VP.
Lieberman makes no sense, he has a ACU rating is only 16 lifetime. Besides, I wouldn’t be able to vote for the top of the ticket, since I never ever vote for a Democrat.
Dasher on August 20, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Poptech on August 20, 2008 at 8:18 AM
Thanks for the links on Pawlenty
The two P’s (pawlenty and Palin) are my least desirable choices for VP
McCain is already the non conservative choice for Pres. Adding either of the two tiny Peas in a Pod to the Big Pea McCain ticket is more of the same
The strange surge towards non conservative VP choice is a shove, not a surge. Palin pulled a fast one on granting same sex couples State Benefits. Pawlenty is Lindsey Graham with more batteries
I find Lieberman more desirable than either of the lesser Peas and Lieberman is a flaming lib.
If I am going to vote for a social safety net politician, I would rather have it up front and straight from Lieberman with the added certainty that he is capable of making strong decisions about national security
Lieberman is not a slickster and he does not lie to himself about what he is either
entagor on August 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Here is a useful link on Palin, a Charlie Rose interview with Fov Palin and Gov Napolitano of Arizona
Interestingly, if I listen to Palin, without watching her, I hear Michigan Governor Granholm. She has the same perky too intimate voice, with a bit of the Peggy Noonan squeak and gush. Speaks too fast rat-a-tat-tat. Tiresome like being nagged by a speed addict
Could that be why I can’t stand her? Nails on the blackboard
Gov Napolitano, without the visuals, has a macho lady contralto with Sunday morning talk show pompousness.
Palin strains my patience. I hate the tiny intimate wraps on sentences which is a Granhom trait. She also does the hanging question tone at the end of sentences.
Between the two it was hard to listen to this interview. Yikity yak yikety yak
I miss Thatcher, who was in the class of Reagan. I wanted to listen to her words
entagor on August 20, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Pawlenty………..Why do we need another Dan Quail? Pawlenty seems a little too “milk toast” for me. Also, what makes him presidential material?
The 2 great American political parties have turned to $hit.
I guess nobody worth a damn is willing to run for POTUS. Too much media scrutany I guess. I know there are quality leaders out there, and I for one am ready for some quality candidates instead of the two shmucks we got.
saiga on August 20, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Wow.
You might want to take it down a notch. That reads like one of Ted Bundy’s confessions.
BTW, you can throw in Thatcher’s name for cover all you want, but you’re not fooling anybody.
Mr. Wednesday Night on August 20, 2008 at 7:52 PM
Not fooling anybody about what?
About being old enought to vote for Reagan, and fan enough to give the Reagan re election campaign my largest political donation. Hooked on Thatcher, I never missed an interview. When Reagan died, I wrote a poem which I forwarded to Thatcher’s web site. I was honored to receive a reply that Mrs Thatcher was a poetry fan and the poem would be passed to her. I cherish the thought that she might have read my ode to the humble President whom she matched in stature.
When Reagan died I was surprised to see the outpouring of affection for the old man who had been President so long ago. People held signs and banners as his funeral procession passed.
The long line of people waiting to circle the coffin on the bier in the Rotunda brought tears. The Reagan spirit was not dead. I thought of a sleeping Giant – the spirited Americans who shared Reagan’s vision. The funeral lines proved the Giant was alive and well. Here is my poem:
Today I Saw a Giant
(written by entagor June 10, 2004 on viewing the silent line of mourners circling the casket of the great, great patriot Ronald Reagan)
Today I saw a Giant wakened after years of sleep
He walked in circles round and round
Beneath a dome on hallowed ground
Which sheltered on a simple bier
A symbol both of yesteryear
and eagles challenging the skies.
So groaned the Giant tears and sighs
as soldiers watched with silent eyes
their treasured guard to keep.
None so sweet as sparrow’s eyes
a tiny creature one day dies
and lids now closed
in soft repose
the stars accept their babe.
One symbol on black velvet laid
One star, one stripe
One soldier’s blade
The Giant cannot cross the lines
to touch the lips that held the smile
and so he walks the weary mile
and tears become his trade.
One great Giant now awake
The sparrow sleeps his work is done
The Dear Lord gathers back His son
as horses call from pasture far
the hills await the rising star.
So one great Giant circles round
until his soul at last has found
one eagle feather on the ground
the sun again will rise.
———–
My God I miss those two so much!
entagor on August 22, 2008 at 9:29 AM
I add the following addendum:
There is a chasm between Yikety Yak the Political Hack who used a cheap fake to implement State benefits for gay couples in Alaska, and the honest, brilliant, straight talking Ronald Reagan and his British twin, Margaret Thatcher
Reagan played it straight.
Yikety Yaj was either simple (and misunderstood the Constitutional right to sign a Bill if she supported that Bill and then have the Courts properly and publically decide if it is Constitutional)
or a simple puppet (who could be manipulated by a devious Attorney General to believe she could not sign a Bill if he privately had determined that it would not pass Constitutional muster, thus avoiding the proper review of the Bill by the Courts)
or devious (pretending she could not sign the Bill because of legalities (untrue) so she could get the new benefits installed and pretend she was helpless to act otherwise)
As I said, Reagan, and Thatcher were straight shooters. Brave. Intelligent. Giants. The Alaska governor is a midget
entagor on August 22, 2008 at 9:51 AM
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