A Perfect Match –updated–
UPDATE (4:05 p.m.): Oh. My. Gawd. Via Steve Clemons, are we looking at a McCain-Lieberman ticket?
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The Bull Moose and Joe Lieberman, talk about a political match made in hell.
This snippet ends with a perfect metaphor for Wittmann.
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman announced Tuesday that he had hired a new spokesman, which is not in itself that noteworthy, except that the said spokesman, Marshall Wittmann, is one of the great career vagabonds, ideological contortionists and political pontificators ever to inflict himself on a city full of them.
To say that Mr. Wittmann defies classification is like saying Paris Hilton defies modesty. But in his peripatetic soul, he is a Washington Original, a man without a political country going to work for a senator without a political party.
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Liberated from the on-message shackles of a Senate office, Mr. Wittmann soared
into the blogosphere. He immersed himself in his popular online diary, Bull
Moose, named for the party of his political hero, Teddy Roosevelt. It became
a virtual megaphone through which Mr. Wittmann could ridicule both the Bush
administration and the liberal bloggers, or “netroots” (or, in
Mr. Wittmann’s words, the “nutroots”) that attacked Mr.
Lieberman relentlessly during his re-election campaign.Now Mr. Wittmann will once again have to stifle his pundit proclivities to
the greater good of Mr. Lieberman. “I’ve gone through this before,”
he said of withdrawal from talking freely to the press. “Luckily my
wife is a psychologist,” he said of his spouse of 29 years, Karen, one
of the few enduring allegiances he has held faithfully.He will also be forced to suspend the Bull Moose. “The Moose
is now in hibernation,” Mr. Wittmann said, adding that he is not certain
if moose in fact hibernate. (They do not.)
Wittmann is always saying things on which he is actually clueless. Oh, and
by the way, he hasn't ruled out jumping Joe's ship for his friend, Senator John
McCain. If that doesn't say everything about Lieberman's politics nothing does.
As for Wittman, it's obviously helpful not to have a spine. Just ask Joe.
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