Letters to the Editor
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Eh...
I'm sure Lieberman thinks that somehow this is some sort of brilliant movement to get back at all the people he accuses of back-stabbing him, but the joke is going to be on him in the general election. If the Democratic toehold in the Senate increases enough (and theres a Dem in the White House) the party will have zilch reason to support him, despite his constant threats to leave the party, and will simply give him the boot.
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Thanks, Bill and Hill!
I wonder if the Clintons now finally regret their support for Lieberman in the 2006 CT senatorial primary.
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That's nothing
They are blowing each other in the cloak room.
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McCain, Romney, Clinton, and Obama are kissing cousings too.
Is this some pathetic attempt to portray Lieberman as somehow different from the rest of the warmongering shills who do not publicly kiss each other on camera?
Ann Coulter is right, Clinton is more conservative than McCain. When Ann Colter is right, the stink must be overwhelming to all except those in the mainstream media who shovel, hurl and traffic in offal to the point that they no longer notice any odor at all.
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The Kiss of Death?
Shoeless Joe Lieberman shilling for McCain, of course, no surprises there; they've been ever-chummier as the US has slid ever more deeply down the slippery slope of war without end, amen. The protesters with the "Warlords" sign are right on the mark, there -- two more natural bedfellows could not be found than John "Hundred Years' War" McCain and Joe "Defense Industry Appropriations" Lieberman, so the kisses are to be expected. Hugs, kisses, whatever it takes -- they're willing partners in the industry of war, and if McCain makes the GOP ticket, the Democrats should paint him as the candidate for war the way LBJ's people painted Goldwater that way in '64.
I think a Democratic ousting of the GOP this election will reveal Lieberman suddenly moving from "Independent" Democrat to Republican in his affiliations. Can there be any doubt of that? Right now, while he could hand the Senate over, his name would live in infamy, but in the imminent implosion of the GOP in Congress, a defection by Lieberman could be swept under the rug, and what's more, he'd have time to stage-manage that defection in time for his next election, and build support among the last of the Republicans in Connecticut. Lieberman's a quisling's Quisling, and we know that if there's a wrong stance to take, Lieberman will sanctimoniously take it.
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McCain Bad
McCain seems like a nice guy, a smart guy, and a non-partisan guy, but his postion on many issues - especially Iraq - shows a real lack of judgement.
Warning: Do not be wooed by his personality.
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You've hired Colin?
He was one of my favorite writers in CT. He was funny on the air too.
Good call. Hope he is a regular on here.
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Ignorance
Ann Coulter is right, Clinton is more conservative than McCain.
Clinton is a bit conservative for a Dem, but no way in hell she's more conservative than McCain. She votes more than 80% with the Dem party, and he votes over 80% with the Republican party.
McCain has built his maverick image on just a few votes, for the most part he's just another lockstep Republican. Although, to judge by comments like yours, it seems that image is working for him on some level.
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@Renegade Iconoclast
Nah, try stupidity. The democrats are republicans. Nixon was the last liberal in the White House. The country has shifted so far right that most republicans from the 60s and 70s would be considered too far leftwing and radical to be in the democratic party.
Putting in perspective, who was more liberal, Hitler or Mussolini?
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obama support for lieberman
Sorry, bearpaw1, Obama also supported Lieberman in the 2006 election.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/04/02/164/90446
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Support for Lieberman
Carol H: Well, then Obama should regret it too, shouldn't he?
I'm guessing that he and Ned Lamont may have spoken about this ... given that Lamont is Obama's campaign co-chair in Connecticut.
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Y'all are kind of creepy
All this borderline hate speech leveled against someone who's not running, has no role in the election and says little if anything is getting a little creepy already. You DO know Borat is comedy, don't you?
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The Senator from Tel Aviv breathes life into the brittle fascist's campaign
How lovely, a match made in heaven. Was McCain's campaign not just about dead in the water prior to Lieberman's breathing life into it a month or so ago?
When does McCain offer Lieberman the Vice-Presidency?
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"When does McCain offer Lieberman the Vice-Presidency?"
Was McCain's campaign not just about dead in the water prior to Lieberman's breathing life into it a month or so ago?
When does McCain offer Lieberman the Vice-Presidency?
Right after he offers you the position of Secretary of State, half-wit.
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"hate speech"?
"All this borderline hate speech leveled against someone who's not running ..." --Anonymous
"Hate speech"? I didn't realize that liars -- oh, sorry, I mean "differently-truthy-Americans" -- had become a protected class.
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Lieberman, Obama and the Clintons
Obama supported Lieberman in the primary. He didn't do the last minute, save-his-ass campaigning for him (including robocalls) that Bill Clinton did. And he didn't go on national TV and say it didn't matter who won because "Joe" is a great Democrat. Hell, Hillary is still babbling about what great friends she and Lieberman are. The Clintons' stupid, short-sighted, self-serving (and look how that worked!) support of Lieberman is one of the reasons I'm for Obama.
In his new book, Lincoln Chaffee says one of the reasons he never left the GOP is because he was afraid of payback. Lieberman is a textbook example of why Democrats are so weak. Who's afraid of Harry Reid?
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It's gonna be sweet . . .
. . . To see the back of Shays and to see Shoeless Joe completely de-balled by a working Dem majority in the Senate come November.
My guess is he'll not like the minority any better than the other a-hole, d-bag repub senators, which explains Joe's inveterate kissing of McCain's ass, all in hopes of a neat position in a McCain administration.
Thus, as if we needed another reason to support Obama, the possibility Joe getting promotion to the cabinet presents yet another.
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The GOP will thank Joe for that.
I mean, John McCain is about as exciting a candidate as a bowl of cold oatmeal, just like Joe.
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Anyone who questions whether Lieberman is
a narcissistic personality need only hear him talk about the scars left in his back after the 2006 election. What a bass-ackward world he must live in, to feel aggrieved by the Democratic party. Never mind defeating him at the ballot box. What we ought to do is have him committed.
As for Ned Lamont letting bygones with Obama, it's a free country. But since I never gave Ned my proxy to forgive the betrayal of Connecticut Democrats (of which I am one), Democratic primary voters, and the notion of grassroots politics in general, I'll continue to hold a grudge against Mr. Obama. I also reserve the right to say "I told you so" when Obama's elitist, undemocratic tendancies manifest themselves - surprising and disappointing his current champions- in the unlikely event that he wins in November.
P.S. Love that Colin McEnroe. It'd be nice to see him here more often, hint, hint.