Joe Lieberman is passionate about national security. His party? Not so much:
In his office, Lieberman had practiced answers and nondenial denials for the litany of questions he had received: whether he would be McCain’s running mate (“I’m not really interested, and I don’t expect to be asked”), whether he would take a cabinet post in a McCain administration (he is interested only in representing Connecticut in the Senate) and whether he is concerned that he is getting some of his lowest poll numbers in his home state in years (no).
But the question that seemed to stump him was whether he would speak at the Republican convention. His face took on a slightly pained expression. If he does speak, “I would not go to speak to attack Barack Obama,” he said. “I would go to say why I’m supporting John McCain.”
What is clear is that Lieberman will not be attending the Democratic convention for the first time since he started going in 1976, the year Jimmy Carter was nominated in New York.
In all seriousness I don’t think Joe Lieberman would be safe at the Democratic National Convention. His standing in the party continues to decline. Democrats seem to find new ways to hate the man even after sentiment seems to have hit rock bottom. In fact, an address to the RNC could be the end of the line according to Robert Novak:
Despite assurances to the contrary from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic insiders are certain Sen. Joseph Lieberman next year will be kicked out of the party’s caucus and lose his Senate chairmanship if he addresses the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., as planned.
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