Hillary / Lieberman Option - 3rd Party Run.

It becomes more clear each day that Hillary is in this race to win.  There is not tomorrow for her.  She has effectively used her goodwill with the Democrats.  And, they abandoned her early on, so she really owes the party nothing.  The following is a good observation. 

Hillary ‘08: The Lieberman Option?

The idea of Hillary leaving the Democratic Party and continuing her run for the presidency as an Independent candidate sounds pretty crazy on its face, but is it?  There are a couple factor that, in my mind, point toward the possibility of such a run — whether it is being considered behind the campaign’s closed doors or not (and I’m guessing that it is).   

The first is her oft-stated declaration that she’s “in it to win it.” Rephrased, “there’s no way I’m getting out,” a fact she’s made abundantly clear in the last few weeks.  A second factor is that she’s increasingly running a campaign that lurches her already centrist campaign further to the right – the 3AM ad, raising the specter of a terrorist attack in the fall, and the anti-crime platform she launched today, which seems like a 1980s era throwback.