"It was one of those great, only-in-America Judeo-Christian moments"

"You've got to believe you are here for a reason," Senator Joe Lieberman told Sarah Palin back in the fall of 2008 when she was losing her bearings in the tense, over-scripted days leading up to her vice presidential debate with Senator Joe Biden.

"It was one of those great, only-in-America Judeo-Christian moments," Senator Joe Lieberman told a delighted American Enterprise Institute audience yesterday evening, retelling the tale of a fateful meeting between him and Sarah Palin on the eve of her vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden October 2, 2008:

So I'm supporting my dear friend John McCain in 2008, and it's the fall, it's about a week before the vice-presidential debate … Governor Palin was in a hotel in Philadelphia practicing for the debate … The McCain campaign was in a panic. She just wasn't registering, wasn't doing well.

Then Steve Schmidt, who was John's campaign manager, said to me, "Do me a favor. You've got something in common with her that the rest of us don't have … You're both religious. So go in and talk to her. Maybe pray with her" … 

So I went in, and she opened right up: "I'm off today. It's a bad day." Without washing dirty laundry in public, she was not happy with the McCain campaign: "They're not handling me right."

"You've got to believe you're here for a reason," Lieberman told her:

And she laughed and said there must be a reason. It's so unbelievable that I'm here running for vice president.

Lieberman cited the Book of Esther:

…  that part where her uncle [cousin?] Mordechai tells her to go to the king to ask him to save the Jewish people from the evil prime minister, and then this sentence, when she's reluctant, perhaps this is the reason you were brought to the king's palace: If you don't do it, somebody else will come along, and she said "Oh, that's great."

We'd never heard the story before, but a little googling reveals it was used for a bit of proto Palin's-an-idiot spin at the time:

Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman thinks that in order for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to beat her Democratic rival, Sen. Joe Biden, in tonight’s debate, she needs to keep it from turning into an “IQ test.”

What Lieberman was getting at was not at all that Sarah was dumb:

“What she needs to do tonight is get this public consideration of her back to who she is and her strong points and, frankly, get it away from being a, kind of, IQ test — she's plenty smart — getting it away from being a, sort of, final college exam,” Lieberman said on MSNBC …

“Whether she can answer every detailed question, I don't think that ultimately matters to the American people,” the Connecticut senator added. “She doesn't know every detail, all the questions senators deal with, but, frankly, that's her strength.”

“I think the point is, who is she as a person? I think that's what people are ultimately looking for,” Lieberman said.

Everything happens for a reason? We're hard-wired to see patterns. Palin/Lieberman 2012?

Update from CT4Palin on Twitter:

Lieberman will be Palin's Ambassador to Israel. :)

And John Bolton for Palin's Secretary of State.

Update II: Bill Quick of Daily Pundit links:

Well, she keeps saying it’s going to be an “unconventional” campaign. Of course, Lieberman is an “independent …”

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Cloven Not Crested.

Comments

[chickelit]

Everything happens for a reason? We're hard-wired to see patterns. Palin/Lieberman 2012?

And I'll remember that I heard it here first. Thank you Sissy!

[Beckaholic]

And lets not forget, she did fantastic in that debate.

[goomp]

Judeo-Christian values are what gave us the freest most successful economic country to have graced this earth. Let us hope we are smart enough to elect those who will return us to those values. These values represent the accumulated wisdom of mankind on how we should live to attain the best there is.

[rickl]

I haven't heard this story before. Lieberman sounds like a decent, stand-up guy. He's an old-fashioned liberal Democrat, a throwback to the days before the party was taken over lock, stock, and barrel by the radical left. There's no question that he's a patriotic citizen who loves this country. I can disagree with his political views without thinking that he's some sort of demon or traitor.

I'm still hoping for Palin/West, though.

[Laura Lee Donoho]

You never fail to inspire, delight, enrich and inform, dear Sissy. We need our Northern Light to shine down on us and when she does, it will be the right time, her time and the appointed time. During the Civil War, the Aurora Borealis actually made an appearance as far south as Fredericksburg,Virginia on the second day of the battle. These times are quite similar in many ways and there are things happening that we do not understand but in the fullness of time we will. If we don't stay faithful to what is right nothing will matter.

[nicholas]

Mordecai was Esther's cousin. When Esther's parents were killed he raised her as his daughter, and she ended up being chosen as the wife of the king of Persia. When Mordecai learned of the plot to kill all the Jews in Persia, he got word to Esther and asked her to speak for their people, but there were two problems. One is that you were not allowed to go to the king unless you had been summoned. To do so meant you would be put to death. The other problem, was that Esther's identity as a Jew was unknown to the king who had agreed to the decree that all Jews should be killed. The story shows us how God does work through things we would never imagine to be to his purpose. Esther was very beautiful of course, and brave, so the comparison is a compliment, but it also speaks to the fact that there are bigger things going on then just what appears to be happening to us personally. Of course, the press managed to miss everything that was relevant in Lieberman's story. The downside for them is they are losing their credibility. Far fewer people today would state they trust old media. FWiW.

[Viator]

Tuesday, October 4th

Link on Drudge...

You gotta love Drudge's link..

PALIN TIME...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65115.html

[Sissy Willis]

And I do.