Lieberman: The (Accidental?) Cooler
First Gore (then Bush?), now McCain. Is there a politician with a greater propensity to harsh a campaign’s buzz than Joe Lieberman?
If you’re a gambler (and John McCain most definitely is) he is probably thinking that his Pal Joey is a cooler.
Coolers are an urban legend to the rest of us, but to gamblers (especially paranoid gamblers) they are very real. A cooler is a person who, while wandering around the casino disrupts the flow of the game — your game — just enough to make you lose. Maybe the cooler talks too much. Maybe he jostles you at the wrong moment. Whatever it is, you believe he is responsible for stopping your momentum, distracting your concentration, cooling off your hot streak. No casino would admit that a cooler actually exists, but if they could, they’d all employ them, sending them out like stealth torpedos to make winners into losers at just the right moment to help the house.
So, first Gore (then Bush?), now McCain: is Joe Lieberman the accidental cooler?
