By Eric Fingerhut on Aug 20, 2008 in Featured, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Presidential Race, Veepstakes | 6 Comments |
When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman as his running mate eight years ago, many Republicans said he was their favorite Democrat. But that doesn’t mean they want him to be the Republican vice presidential nominee.
The Politico’s report that Lieberman, or fellow pro-choice politician Tom Ridge, was apparently being seriously considered as John McCain’s vice presidential pick was not welcomed by conservatives yesterday. “You will not have a unanimous vote at the convention, that much I can tell you,” said one unnamed Republican.
And there’s more on the McCain-Lieberman front…
- The Washington Times reports that state GOP officials are already plotting how to reject a Lieberman pick.
- Rush Limbaugh offers an emphatic “NO” to the idea.
- The National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez feels similarly.
- Jim Geraghty of the same publication also agrees, adding that Lieberman won’t win Connecticut for McCain.
- Jewish conservative John Podhoretz makes the case in Commentary magazine for Lieberman as McCain’s pick — foreign policy strength and both could pledge to fight the “corrupt political culture.” But he says Lieberman would have to pledge not to seek the presidency in order to mollify political conservatives.
- Byron York of National Review writes that McCain would like to pick a “friend” like Lieberman and the campaign believes it would give him back his “maverick” image — but he’s still struggling with the decision.
- And Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard has a similar take, writing that if McCain was making the decision without regard to policy or politics, it would be Joe — but that in the end, he’ll pick Pawlenty.
- Liberal blogger Jane Hamsher of The Huffington Post believes McCain will choose Lieberman and announce it next Friday, because the media will love it and it will steal Obama’s thunder after his convention speech.
- Time magazine political guru Mark Halperin said a choice of any “pro-choice” VP would be a “disaster” for McCain.
Signs do point this morning to Lieberman being vetted, according to Politico. And he’s also now on the Republican convention speaking agenda, although no specifics on when. And the Connecticut senator is following in the footsteps of another rumored VP nominee, Joe Biden, by heading to Georgia this week.
By Uriel Heilman on Aug 11, 2008 in Local races, New York | 0 Comments |
The New York Times’ Kareem Fahim profiles Isaac Abraham, the Chasidic mover and shaker who’s running for City Council from District 33, in Brooklyn.
By Ami Eden on May 2, 2008 in Florida, Hillary Clinton, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Presidential Race | 4 Comments |
Ann Lewis touts Hillary Clinton’s performance among Jewish voters: Read the rest
By Ami Eden on Mar 12, 2008 in Eliot Spitzer, Featured, New York | 0 Comments |
Ben Harris reports on the warm feelings that Jewish groups have for NY Lt.-Gov David Paterson, the man who will be taking over for Eliot Spitzer (and, in case you missed it, yesterday Ron Kampeas wrote about the Israeli angle to the scandal).
Not sure where Spitzer was on the night of July 15, 2007, but you don’t have to worry about his replacement — Paterson was thrilled to death to be giving a speech to the women of Hadassah:
When I came in this evening, Carol thanked me for coming here this evening and said ‘I understand you cut your vacation short just to be here.’ And many of you might think that that was a real act of some kind of charity, it really wasn’t. You don’t understand. Lieutenant Governors never get invited to such national prestigious organizations as this. And as soon as I heard that, I was out of the Hamptons faster than Jon Corzine. I was here immediately.
Here’s a prescient passage from the talk:
After six months and 15 days I’ve come to this conclusion. You wake up at 6:30 in the morning and you call the governor’s mansion. If he answers, you can go back to sleep.
Many will come before you this week telling you how glad they are to be here but you know that I really am. As a matter of fact, I found out in my third month of duty that they actually have an organization known as the National Lieutenant Governor’s Association. We had a meeting in Washington DC. And I hesitated about going to a meeting with people who must have such morbid fantasies involving plane crashes and criminal convictions.
By Ami Eden on Feb 5, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, New York, Presidential Race, Super Tuesday | 0 Comments |
UPDATE: This post has been changed to reflect new numbers up at MSNBC.
MSNBC now has exit polling up about the Jewish vote in New York.
According to the polling, conducted by Edison/Mitofsky, Hillary Clinton took 69 65 percent of Jewish Democrats, compared to 29 33 percent for Barack Obama. That’s a wider gap than in Florida, where Clinton beat Obama 58 percent to 26 percent, with John Edwards pulling 13 percent.
In New York, Jews made up 17 16 percent of the Democratic electorate — about double the percentage of Jews in the Empire State’s overall population.
By Ami Eden on Feb 4, 2008 in New York, Presidential Race | 0 Comments |
Simcha Felder is now in Obama’s corner, but Clinton has plenty of Brooklyn backers to help her with the Orthodox vote.
