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December 01, 2005
How About A McCain/Lieberman Ticket?
By abandoning the Likud party, Ariel Sharon is betting the farm that he can capture the centrist Israeli voters (from Captain's Quarters):
Ariel Sharon's breathtaking gamble on leaving the political party that he himself founded decades earlier may have paid off. It appears that Shimon Peres, recently booted from his leadership post in the Labor party, may join Sharon in Kadima and take a large swath of his followers along with him. The two moves threaten to completely rewrite Israeli politics and shove what had been the two largest political parties into the extremist wings of the Israeli electoral culture. [...]
Perhaps Sharon had this already in the works when he announced the launch of Kadima, but either way, it shows the demand for a more centrist representation in Israel while the question of the Palestinians remain open.
While I continue to have grave doubts about the potential success of any land-for-peace deal with Israel's neighbors (who continue to harbor fantasies of the extermination of all Jews), Sharon's play for the center of the Israeli electorate got me to thinking when I saw this piece from Glenn Reynolds:
Funny, but not long after Rep. Murtha's outburst on the war, we're seeing a bipartisan consensus that a cut-and-run approach would be disastrous.
Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, just back from Iraq, writes in the Wall Street Journal:
I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood[...]...
It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists [...]
A colossal mistake -- and, in some cases, a political move by those who don't care if America is defeated, so long as Bush is. [...]
Republican Senator John McCain says that people who talk about premature withdrawal are "aiding and abetting" the enemy. McCain writes:
A date is not an exit strategy. To suggest that it is only encourages our enemies, by indicating that the end to American intervention is near. [...]
McCain and Lieberman are right. A lot of the weak-kneed Senators in both parties who supported the resolution he criticized are now having second thoughts, especially in light of new polls that show that Americans aren't impressed [...]
Could McCain imitate Sharon's bold move? I wonder what would happen if McCain won the nomination in 2008 and chose Lieberman as his running mate?
File under: Posts, extremely speculative.
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