Posted on 11/25/2008 7:44:26 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl
Senator Lieberman, thank you for your tireless effort to help Senator John McCain in his campaign for the presidency.
No elected official did more for Senator McCain than you, and probably, nobody outside his family loves him more than you do.
It was clear during the campaign, just as it was clear eight years ago when you couldn't stomach the Gore team trying to trash the military votes in Florida, that you believe in putting what's best for the country above what may be best for the democrats or even for you.
Joe's speech at the RNC convention
Now that Harry Reid has seen fit to let you stay as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, even though you spoke out with all your might against the inexperienced Barack Obama, WHY do you remain an "Independent democrat"? Why not become a Republican?
I saw you at the rallies, Senator Lieberman. There's plenty of clips of you on YouTube standing behind John McCain, clapping and nodding as he speaks not only about national security, but about tax cuts and excessive government spending. You booed along with the crowd when Senator McCain said the democrats were planning on taxing our 401K contributions. Remember this night: (WARNING: soaring score from "Rudy" and cheering crowds still stings like crazy)
So which is it, Senator? Do you agree with the democrats, or do you agree with the Republicans?
Why not demonstrate your love for Senator McCain and your belief that he was right by SWITCHING PARTIES. After all that we who supported Senator McCain have been through, it would be a powerful and courageous act on your part to say, 'you know what, I believe in my brother John and I want to live by that belief. That means I have to be a Republican.' What do you have to lose? Reid already said you could keep your chair. What's he going to do if you switch, try to take it away again? He might, but hasn't Obama been insisting that he's looking for a bipartisanship effort and the bickering has to stop?
I saw you in Israel with Senator McCain.
You know how much they love John in Israel.
It may be the only place in the world he would have won.
Some people get it, some people don't.
Unfortunately for us, lots of American voters who not only don't get it, but don't even know who Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are, checked in at their polling stations at least once on Nov. 4 and now here we are.
You are at your best when you allow your true self to come out. You know that the Republican party is more in line with where you are as a Torah Observant Jew, hence the reason 75% of Orthodox Jews voted for John McCain. And John McCain got one in ten of the military vote (including my brother's vote, and he's one of your constituents.) As so many have said before, the democrat party left you. So now is the time to leave them. They diss you all over the place. Would you want their love back even if you could get it?
I don't doubt you love John Sidney McCain III.
I don't doubt that you love this country. 
We share in disappointment that Senator McCain is not the president-elect.
It would make me feel better and I think it would make you feel better if you stood up in the Senate and said: "You know what? I can't bear it. I love the military, I love the surge, I love one man and one woman getting married and having children, I love letting Americans keep more of their own money to pay their own bills, and it's high time for me to BAIL OUT of the democrat party. The Republicans may be in the minority now, but today they just increased their number in the Senate by one."
Face it, Senator, you put it all on the line for John McCain. And you know he wanted you to be his VP and he's probably still kicking furniture when he thinks about how he was talked out of it. So make things better. Say it wasn't all for naught. Join the GOP, Senator. We're waiting for you.
P.S. Happy Birthday today to my brother! ;)
Look Cinnamon, Joe is a blue dog Democrat on defence but on social policies he’s pure Democrat. He has said it many times. I like Joe too but what you’re asking for is never going to happen.
I’m not sure adding one more center-left politician to the GOP is a good thing.
I like Jow too. He’s a nice guy. But he’s still socially pretty liberal.
I have not, will NEVER forget the Gore/Lieberman campaign going to the courts to THROW OUT military absentee ballots in 2000. All the while he was whining “We just want to count all the votes.”
I don’t trust this men, never will.
If Lieberman had run with McCain, it would have been a bloodbath. Palin was the ONLY reason I reluctantly changed my mind and voted for McCain. Before he named her, we were just not going to vote period. There were many, many like us.
How pathetic.
That’s my point. When Joe was campaigning with McCain, he was agreeing with everything— tax cuts, cutting government programs— he didn’t say he ONLY agreed with McCain on the war. So I saying, maybe Joe should recognize that where he’s at right now isn’t with the democrats.
I liked McCain’s pick of Palin. But I think McCain wanted to pick Joe. That’s all.
You’re right. The article says that he couldn’t stomach the attempt to throw out military votes. I don’t remember it that way. He was part and parcel in an attempt to subvert the Constitution and steal a Presidential election.
Is that correct?? You mean 90% of our military voted for a Marxist as Commander in Chief??? Good grief!!
Actually, that’s entirely wrong. JOE LIEBERMAN is responsible for putting the kibosh on the dems tossing military ballots. Although this is a clip from the hbo recount movie, it shows a REAL clip of Joe Lieberman on Meet the Depressed saying the ballots should be counted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLfyH4cG1o8
If the purists on FR had their way, there’d be maybe three or four Republicans in all of Congress and we wouldn’t have had a president since Reagan. But that would be okay with the purists because at least we’d only have REAL conservatives.
Joe should remain an independant.
If he switched to (R) he would be defeated in 4 years. As an independant he is set to be Senator for life!
Maybe you need to read FR’s mission statement or whatever you call it. This is a conservative board not a republican board.
I’m so disgusted with the Repubs right now. Mcain for President? Well, I held my nose and voted for that asshat and look what that got me. Hellooo President Obama.
What were you supposed to do, vote for Obama? For all the trashing President Bush has taken for not being a conservative, he did get us some tax cuts and he has been fighting the wars.
Good post for a good guy that has served his Country well.
He can disagree on issues yet still remain an honerable good person with a respectful tone. He tries to do what’s right. That’s all we can ask of elected officials.
I violated my principles by voting for that RINO and so did probably 90% of the folks here. Next election if there is no conservative to vote for I’m writing one in. I’m 100% sick of this crap.
That’s great, salesman. Then, just like the losertarians, you’ll get 100% of nothing every time. Bush also put Roberts and Alito on the SC. You have to look at the big picture.
Maybe next time there will be a conservative candidate for President on your beloved Republican ticket? Then you can count on my vote.
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