MCCAIN NEEDS MORE THAN A LIEBERMAN ENDORSEMENT: HE HAS TO GET LIEBERMAN TO JOIN THE GOP CAUCUS

GLENN AND ALLAHPUNDIT ARE TWO OF THE BEST. PERIOD.

BUT FAR FROM PERFECT.

THEY DISPLAYED THEIR PSEUDO-NON-PARTISAN KNUCKELHEADEDNESS TODAY - ON THE IMPENDING LIEBERMAN ENDORSEMENT OF MCCAIN:

• THEY SUGGEST THAT MCCAIN ANNOUNCE THAT HE WILL NAME LIEBERMAN AS HIS VEEP. (GLENN HERE.)

• THEY SUGGEST THIS BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT IT WOULD HELP MCCAIN.

• THEY ARE TOTALLY WRONG.

• SURE: NH IS AN OPEN PRIMARY: REGISTERED VOTERS CAN VOTE IN ANY PARTY THEY CHOOSE REGARDLESS OF THEIR OWN PARTY ID.

• BUT MCCAIN WOULD PROBABLY LOSE AS MANY GOP VOTERS AS HE WOULD GAIN INDEPENDENT OR DEM VOTERS.

• LIEBERMAN IS GREAT ON THE WAR, BUT A TRUE LIBERAL ON ALL THE SOCIAL ISSUES - HECK ON ALL OTHER ISSUES. HE'S MUCH MORE LIBERAL THAN ZELL MILLER WAS.

• GOP CONSERVATIVES DON'T WANT A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT LIBERAL A HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM BEING POTUS.

• IF LIEBERMAN ISN'T WILLING TO CAUCUS WITH THE GOP THEN HE ISN'T FIT FOR THE TICKET.

NOW THIS BRINGS US TO WHAT WOULD BE A GREAT COUP FOR MCCAIN:

IF HE GETS LIEBERMAN TO CAUCUS WITH THE GOP.

THEN AND ONLY THEN WOULD THE MOVE REAP BENEFITS FOR THE ENTIRE GOP AND FOR MCCAIN STRAIGHT THROUGH THE ENTIRE PRIMARY SEASON AND ELECTION.

MCCAIN COULD SAY HE DETHRONED THE DEMS IN THE SENATE AND MADE REID AND DURBIN MINORITY LEADERS, AND LEAHY AND EVERY OTHER LEFTY DEM CHAIRMAN IN THE SENATE MERE RANKING MEMBERS.

NOW THAT WOULD BE A COUP!

HECK: I MIGHT EVEN VOTE FOR HIM!

FULL ROUND UP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.