Cheney Endorses McCain, Is It Out Of Spite?

With three days to go John McCain has an enormous problem on his hands, just within the conservative community. Democrats and many Independents are lining up behind Barack, but so are long time conservatives such as Lawrence Eagleburger and even GOP Congressman Chris Shays has thrown McCain under the bus. So obviously he needs to hear that someone prominent is still in his corner, but could there be anyone worse to step up than Dick Cheney?

From The Huffington Post:

The Obama campaign gleefully sends over an announcement of a major endorsement.... for John McCain... by Dick Cheney.

"In three days we'll choose a new steward for the presidency and begin a new chapter in our history," the Vice President said Saturday morning. "It's the biggest decision that we make together as Americans. A lot turns on the outcome. I believe the right leader for this moment in history is Senator John McCain."

Gleefully, ecstaticly, joyfully, all those adjectives work for the occasion. Cheney isn't an idiot though, he knows how much America loathes him after the last eight years. Why would he offer such an "endorsement" with only a few days to go when the last of the impressionable voters are looking for their candidate? Perhaps he did it out of spite because McCain didn't go negative enough? Hmmm, that's one question to ponder, but I'll take the good news even without an answer.