Posted on 10/30/2009 6:43:57 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Sounding more like an independent than a Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., tells ABC News he will campaign for some Republican candidates during the 2010 midterm elections and may not seek the Democratic Senate nomination when he runs for re-election in 2012.
"I probably will support some Republican candidates for Congress or Senate in the election in 2010. I'm going to call them as I see them," Lieberman said in an ABC News "Subway Series" interview aboard the U.S. Capitol Subway System.
Lieberman infuriated fellow Democrats in 2008 by supporting Republican presidential nominee John McCain as well as congressional candidates Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.
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Is Olympia Snow going to be campaigning for any Republicans? Just asking.
Lieberman is not a conservative. I guess he just isn’t liberal enough for the media
It will interesting if Lieberman continues to caucus with Democrats. I imagine that he’s pissed them off quite a bit in the past year. If he gets stripped of his chairmanships, I bet he bolts the caucus.
I think Lieberman is smelling the TEA in the air.
Lieberman is an extreme leftist on most matters, but he does have some common sense in two key areas: defense and fiscal responsibility.
Lieberman knows that the Connecticut GOP leadership is really weak and that they will not be able to field a candidate to challenge him. His best hope is gain the support of conservatives who have no where else to go.
I won’t count on LIEberman at all. He will say no to gummint option and vote yes on trigger option.
Same thing, different name.
I think the Dhimmis are making him feel uncomfortable. He may be thinking of a switch, sort of a off-set of Specter.
He’d fit right in with the rest of the Northeastern RINO’s. Nobody needs another one of those.
It would surely infuriate Hussein and Dingy Harry, though, which makes the move worthwhile if he decides to do it.
Lieberman ain’t movin’ right. He’s standin’ still.
Its the Democrats headin’ left that makes it look that way.
Seems like he’s been distancing himself from the other CT senator. He was conspicously absent from the 0bama /Dodd grub fest in Stamford last week. He claims for religious reasons but I think he doesn’t want to be seen in the same light as Dudd.
BTTT
His ACU rating is like 15, thats barely higher than Dede Scozzafava
Who is not against us, is for us. Unlike NY-23, I doubt a strong conservative could win the Conn. Senate race. Therefore, Newt’s point would be valid in this situation b/c it would be 1 vote less for Reid if nothing else. If he switches we ought to welcome him, but kindly remind him that it he who sought the GOP out and not vice versa.
True. OTOH, is also neither a lying opportunist or a mind-numbed fool.
When Lieberman came in, he was considered on the far left of the Dems. Now, he’s considered a screaming Right-wing nut by many in the party, and is far right of those in the White House. It shows just how far out of mainstream the Dem party has strayed.
While anything is possible in politics, he came out on Monday morning and said forcefully and without equivocation he would not be voting for the public option or the trigger.
Then, some made some noise about him saying he would vote for cloture. He came back and clarified. He will vote for cloture to get the bill out of committee, but WILL NOT vote for cloture when the bill comes to the floor. He will join the Republican filibuster. In both instances, he's to the right of Olympia Snowe.
THOSE are the two most important ISSUES affecting all Americans.
BTTT
Well put.
For this reason, I think he'll easily win reelection in 2012. With Dodd in trouble in CT, it shows that while the party is moving to the left, most people in CT are not - like Lieberman. And, if that is happening in CT, it could be happening in other NE states.
I have no problem, and never have, with honest liberals who have a different point of view from me....provided they aren’t idealogues who aren’t hell bent on destroying our way of life, like Pelosi. Whom I consider the spawn of the Devil himself.
I have always thought Joe Lieberman to be one of the most thoroughly decent human beings (who happens to be too liberal for me on most things) around. I think he’s one of the rare libs that would cut off a limb, rather than hurt the country.
And he’s putting his nuts on the line, announcing he figures to campaign for some Republicans. He knows that it will cost him his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee, as the Dems are so vindictive.
That is the definition of a principled patriot, regardless of party affiliation.
Which reminds me, it’s something like endorsing an obscure candidate in third place in some race in NY. A person who ignores the letter after the name and endorses on idealogy. :)
If Lieberman does switch to the GOP (which I doubt), then posters here will bash him as a dirty RINO who must be purged from the party. Lieberman is more liberal than Snowe and Specter.
It never ceases to amaze me how Hannity and some on this board fell in “luv” with this guy ... even to the point of a possibility of McLosers running mate. It proves my point over and over .. most americans have brain cells that are seldom used .... they forget what happened in the prior week.
Did anybody remember the different tune Lie ..beer Man took as ALgor’z running maate .. he was trying to out liberal a very liberal ALgor. Lie . beer man threw all his core values (not that he had many) under the bus for Algor.
He will never become a stinking RINO even if he did switch.. he IS just another worthless liberal career politician. Nothing toooo hard to understand about that. Actually .. I see very little difference between a liberal and a RINO if truth be told.
if he follows through he can kiss his seat goodbye next election, I doubt his constituents will reward him with another term for this (if he follows through)
Yeah weird state that CT conservatives have found themselves in; it would be interesting if CT also elected Peter Schiff as US Senator as well!
Hamlet Lieberman continues to manipulate the GOP for his own ends. Have a moonbat to challenge him on the Dem side and suckers the GOP into supporting him and keeps voting 90%+ leftist and continues caucusing with the very rodents who “claim” to oppose him. We need to field a solid Conservative candidate against him in ‘12 and he and the moonbat Dem nominee take the remainder of the vote. Wake up, guys, you’re being played !
I don't know. CT Dems are wildly social liberals - way left wing. But, there's an thread of fiscal conservatism (small c) that runs through the state. They don't like huge deficits - which is exactly what they're getting. Look at Dodd. He was at one time untouchable in CT.
A social conservative could never get elected in CT. But, a strong fiscal conservative might. I think Lieberman won't be touched, but Dodd could be unseated.
No such thing as being fiscally Conservative without being a social Conservative. Contradiction in terms. A social liberal requires big government, high taxation and big spending. You can, however, be a social Conservative and fiscal liberal.
Well, we could be arguing semantics. There are PLENTY of devout libertarians that are pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage, pro drug legalization, clear separation of Church and State but want only a minimal amount of government spending - at the state and federal level, to include low taxes and no deficit spending. Penn Gillette and his "Bullsh!t" series immediately come to mind. I believe most people would describe them and him as "social liberals" and "fiscal conservatives". Certainly, that's how I intended my comment.
Come on over Joe, we have a big tent and you are a very good example of what moderate dissatisfied Democrats should do right now. Remember 1980 and what happened then can happen again in 2012!
As a practical matter, I don't necessarily disagree. Of the active 100 members of the Senate, and the 435 members of the House, only two come to mind that are actual fiscal conservatives - Jeff Flake and Tom Coburn. Only these two guys show any consistency in voting against spending projects, even when that nay votes come at the expense of their own political self interest. The rest of them - ALL OF THEM - happily vote for all manner of pork and pet projects, wasting literally hundreds of billions a year in taxpayer money.
Every time a bill comes to the floor for a vote, with the exception of non-binding or honorary resolutions, the passage of that bill would mean, in some way, spending the taxpayer's money. The Legislative branch passed some 618 bills - most with clearly bi-partisan majorities, and all involved spending money, sometimes an incredible amount of money.
A "fiscal conservative", it could be argued, is the political equivalent of a Unicorn - not found in Republicans or Democrats nor in liberals or conservatives. Liberals do a tremendous job of raising taxes and spending money. Conservatives, sadly enough, have done a tremendous job of cutting taxes and spending money.
It’s like I said above, we see a lot of social Conservative/fiscal liberals. The problem with all that spending and gov’t expansion tends to render their SoCon credentials as meaningless. Shrinking gov’t, cutting pork, cutting taxes & spending, returning gov’t to its Constitutional boundaries is just about the greatest test of fidelity to Conservatism, social or otherwise.
I hope the CT GOP isn’t stupid enough to support him again, I suspect they are.
I have the GOP candidate for you Joe, her name is Dede.
(I never though I’d have a reason to type Dede so many times.)
Which is why he tried to suppress the votes of our men and women overseas in 2000 and voted against the Bush tax cuts. ;)
It's nonsense that the GOP can't run a Senate candidate. A decent Republican who gets the GOP base vote likely wins a three way race.
A person can be for abortion and gay marriage and small government. I’m sure many are.
But none are in office.
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