A Clinton Conspiracy Theory
Probably to distract myself from even more depressing topics, I've been sitting here trying to imagine why Bill Clinton has agreed to campaign for Joe Lieberman in Connecticut this weekend.
Lieberman, as you recall, faced with the likelihood he would not get the Dem party nomination after 24 years in office, went Independent with his own "Lieberman for Connecticut" party (catchy name, eh)? The GOP wants him re-elected so badly they're not only helping to fund him, they look ready to bump their own candidate from the ticket so they can run Lieberman on the GOP ballot line.
Here are the theories for Clinton's campaigning I've dreamed up thus far:
- Lieberman for Connecticut was just such a catchy name, Bill couldn't resist? Nah.
- Clinton's "new" parents, Barbara and George H.W. "Poppy" Bush, threatened to withhold Bill's dessert if he refused? Possibly.
- Bill still can't forgive Connecticut for producing Bush Jr? Although Dubya loves to play cowboy, he was born in Yale-New Haven Hospital to a Greenwich family on Connecticut's "Gold Coast". Unlikely.
- Bill's lived with Hillary so long, he forgot he's with the Democratic Party? Possibly!
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