Joe Lieberman will speak at the Republican convention. Don't say I didn't warn you about that guy.
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by PaulaG on Aug 20, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Joe Lieberman will speak at the Republican convention. Don't say I didn't warn you about that guy.
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22 Responses to “Lieberman Surprises No One”
Welcome CT voters to the special shame that is just like ours in 2004 when Zell spoke.
If anyone from Ct is reading this, call me we have lots of ideas of how to throw a kick ass party on that night.. Of course Zell rhymes with hell, so we did have a slight advantage in fun tag lines.. Not sure what rhymes with Joe or Lieberman.. nothing catchy that's for sure.
Now I'm sure we'll get to hear how Lieberman is simply another Zell, even though on an issue to issue basis, Lieberman is much more aligned with the Democratic Party than the GOP.
Oh wait.. here's a good button slogan..
"How low can you go Joe?"
I wonder what Lieberman will use his speaking time to attack the party on. I mean, the guy is not a Conservative Democrat like Zell. Maybe he'll just rant and rave on the war.
Rural just curious then why is he hanging with McCain and speaking at the RNC? I mean is it a vanity thing, a attention getting thing? We all knew Zell bumped his head kind of hard in 2003 and went crazy but what's Joe's excuse?
Sour grapes. Twice dude lost as a Democrat for POTUS so clearly its not him, its us.
Jules,
I have on clue. I'm curious as well! I'm not siding with Lieberman on this one!
I can understand not supporting Obama, but crossing over to support McCain? Neither of the candidates are that appealing, and certainly not worth crossing over for.
Honestly, other than some trade issues, Lieberman is pretty liberal, so I'm not sure what he can really talk about other than his support for the war.
I guess I give Zell a pass because he's a Conservative Democrat and I completly understand his frustration.
However, Lieberman is a liberal Democrat, and I'm honestly puzzled about why he's speaking unless he gives a war speech.
Now, don't get me wrong, I think the entire tar and feathering that they're wanting to do to Lieberman is wrong. Sure, Warner and a few others will win, but cutting Lieberman out? The guy could have simply ran as a "independent republican" (though a very liberal one) and won and denied the party the current majority.
I just want to know why Harry Reid and Dick Durbin won't kick the traitor out of his Committee chair.
It frighteningly obvious. Lieberman is the latest GOP play toy. They'll ignore his views on choice and rather socialist economic views so he can utter "surge good" "partisanship bayad" at their big whoop-te-doo. Then every pea spewing bobblehead from Jim Wooten to Sean Hannity can say "See! This is what's wrong with the rest of the Democrats!"
I don't know if Zell got crazy, found Jesus or discovered Phillis Schlafly had pictures of him playing pick up sticks with the devil, but he was no conservative Democrat (a platitude so common and vague these days some upon hearing it in dulcet tones simply role on their back to be scratched). He abandoned the pricinples of his "progressive" (back when it meant socially progressive and fiscally conservative) governor forefathers to become a screaming muppet character who only has about three good right wing utterances when you pull his string.
Joe is either a doddering old fool,desperate to maintain his image of rebel or so narcissitic on an Edwardsian level that he will succumb to lapping at the trough of delusion just to continue to be invited on such paens of fairness as the Glenn Beck show.
Frankly I don't know which is worse.
"The guy could have simply ran as a "independent republican" (though a very liberal one) and won and denied the party the current majority."
Funny, that's what I thought he did. He strayed far enough from the Democratic Party of Connecticut that he was successfully primaried. So while he provided a majority, it was a semi-dysfunctional one with us currently having to watch the whip counts with maximal attention.
Four or five Democratic Senators = Bye-bye Joe. His days of being the Alan Colmes of the Democratic Caucus are numbered.
Rural, I'm old enough to remember Zell and his BFF President Bill Clinton tearing it up at the Houstons on Paces Ferry & Northside in the DAY!
No woman under 60 was safe in the bar then. They were veeerrrry bad boys then.
Like I said, he must have bumped his head (maybe it was on a bible being held by his wife) cause prior to that he wasn't all that conservative.
Dude you're going to have to trust us old folks on this.
I would really really really really REALLY like to kick Joe Lieberman in the face.
I will instead settle for winning enough of a majority in November that the Democrats can kick him out of their caucus and tell him to go f*ck himself.
odinseye2k,
The ONLY reason Lamont and the kos crowd wanted to beat Lieberman was because of the war.
It is a very, very important issue, but ONE issue alone does not make someone a liberal or conservative.
Apparently Rural believes that if you have a southern accent you are a "conservative Democrat," see John Edwards, see Zell Miller, etc., and if you are a northern Democrat, see Joe Lieberman, you are a "liberal Democrat" even though Zell Miller, back when he was Governor and before he became a US Senator, was probably the most liberal Governor Georgia has ever had and John Edwards, if he had not run for Vice President and instead ran for re-election to the Senate from North Carolina, probably would have lost because he would have been portrayed as "too liberal."
Yes, Griftdrift, it is a common and vague platitude these days and it means nothing.
I'm more than a little confused by RD's assertion that Lieberman is a liberal, and the idea that his war vote is the only thing to hate about him. I was a Connecticut voter from 1992-1997, waaay before the Iraq War, and I've hated the guy ever since.
Dg,
Which Dg is this that's posting?
You clearly don't know what you are talking about Rural.
Is that right?
Yes, you don't have a clue. If you are insinuating that there is more than one Decaturguy then it is obvious that you don't know what you are talking about. I am only one person, always have been, always will be. I'm not sure where you got information otherwise, but it is false and you are very gullible.
Wow that hit a nerve. I could have meant you have multiple personalities.
Now that you've mentioned all that, hrmm, I do wonder if there is more than one of you
nothing quite like a friendly, low key debate!
If I can bestow jackass status on anyone, Joe gets it. He "switched" and not out of principle (I can respect people who switch because of policy, not because they lost two elections). He is willing to dick around with "his party" because he has a bone to pick. He won't become a Republican because he can't win as a Republican in Connecticut. I can't think of anything else right now but there is more.
Joe is an unprincipled hack. When we get to 55+ I swear to god I hope Harry or Obama has some balls and kicks him out. I say good riddance to attention whores with no conscience.