by Jill Zuckman
Derry, N.H. – There’s a benefit to bringing a friend to a town hall meeting if you’re a candidate for president of the United States.
This weekend, members of Congress are coming to New Hampshire in droves to help their candidate of choice.
Tonight, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Democrat turned Independent who’s backing Sen. John McCain, stepped in when a voter asked about illegal immigration, the hot-button topic that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is using to try to bludgeon him.
McCain gave his standard quip: “This meeting is adjourned.”
Then he gave his standard response, noting that “all of these people are God’s children, created in God’s image.”
That’s when Lieberman jumped up, eager to cut to the chase, which is Romney’s advertisements accusing McCain of supporting amnesty for illegal aliens.
“I was there when he was trying to solve a problem,” Lieberman said of McCain’s efforts to broker a compromise on immigration legislation. “To say John McCain ever supported amnesty for illegal aliens is simply a lie. I cant say it any more clearer…don’t believe it, don’t believe it.”
McCain later thanked Lieberman for his words, though he has refrained from accusing Romney of lying himself.
“I’m not saying it,” McCain said. “There was no amnesty in our bill, it was a path to citizenship and punishment for illegal behavior. It was never amnesty. I’m the hesitant to use the words ‘it’s a lie’ about anything. You don’t want to get into that kind of rhetoric.”
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