Speaking of dysfunctional political marriages

Montgomery County Commissioner Joe Hoeffel wants Barack Obama to pick Hillary Clinton as his running mate.

Hoeffel, a former Congressman, Ed Rendell confidant and Democratic Party insider, told reporter Margaret Gibbons that an Obama-Clinton shotgun marriage would be "the strongest ticket to bring Democratic unity and Democratic victory in the fall."

Gibbons notes that Hoeffel is no stranger to dysfunctional political arrangements, saying that Hoeffel had a front-row seat to the forced teaming of Bruce Castor and Jim Matthews as the 2007 Republican slate for Montgomery County Commissioner.

Castor and Matthews won the majority on the three-member board, but Matthews promptly turned his back on the Republican Party and decided to form a power-sharing arrangement with ultra-liberal Hoeffel.

Hoeffel and Rendell publicly supported Clinton for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, but both are now pledging to work to get Obama elected.

One other interesting side not from Gibbons.

Hoeffel lost his a bid as a convention delegate committed to Clinton in the April Democratic Party primary finishing fourth among seven candidates, but he's going to go to the convention anyway.

Rendell has picked Hoeffel as an at-large Clinton delegate on the governor's slate of delegates, according to Gibbons.

Read the full story, "This is the strongest ticket," in The Times-Herald.

Also check out "Popular vote suddenly unpopular" at the Always Right with Joe Hainthaler blog for another lesson in liberal hypocrisy when it came to the Obama-Clinton contest.