[knak]

also: Lieberman issued a statement saying he had “a lot of respect for Al Gore”

[Southack]

We should extend a carrot to Senator Lieberman and encourage him to bring his pro-Iraq-War and pro-Israel views on over to our big tent.

It would be a heckofa way for Holy Joe to get back at those who just backstabbed him with this endorsement...

[basil]

Don't you just love to see them imploding?

[Sam Cree]

"Gore endorsing Dean"...damning him with faint praise, basically.

[keithtoo]

Woody Gore endorses Buzz Lite-Fear

[Cicero]

I suspect that Gore has no great love for the clintons. He stuck loyally to them for eight years, called clinton the greatest president in history in his moment of need, and sullied his reputation, and in the end it was all for what?

Al's daddy promised him that after he grew up he would be president one day, but the clintons screwed it up.

So, I see this move as a defiance of the clintons, not a repudiation of Lieberman. Hillary is going to be very, very angry about this endorsement, because she has given strict orders that Dean is not to be allowed to get out in front of the pack.

[Falcon4.0]

Dean and Gore

Just two tight ass White Boys lookng for Soul Food in Harlem!

[P-Marlowe]

Lieberman is the only democrat candidate who loves his country more than he wants to pander to the left. He is the only democrat candidate who has the temperment to be president. Not that he should be. But if he became president it would not be the end of the world. If any of these other clowns were to be elected, it very well could be the end of the world.

[CMOTB]

Hmm, I didn't realise he HAD respect for Algore, I thought he just went along for the ride as VP.

Probably because Lieberman is for the war and Dean/Algore are against it. Could there be a Dean Gore ticket in the future?

[CaptRon]

also: Lieberman issued a statement saying he had “a lot of respect for Al Gore”

What? He didn't call it an historic non-endorsement?

[South40]

Gore endorsing Dean, not Lieberman

That's sure to confuse the average gore supporter.

[CaptRon]

Shows that Algore merely used him last election. Get it yet, Joe?

[Petronski]

Red Howard must be moist with excitement.

[OldFriend]

LOLOLOL.......this is going to be a lot more fun that we thought. Shartpon won't be the only clown in the deck anymore.

[gg188]

The sources described the endorsement as a way for Gore to maneuver himself to challenge former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, for supremacy within the Democratic Party. ....and could position him to challenge Hillary Clinton for the 2008 nomination should Dean lose the general election next year.

Is Al suicical, deluded, or acting in concert w/ Hitlery?

[Bosco]

With Gore endorsing Dean, it's getting closer to Rush Limbaugh's dream of the Democratic presidential candidate being Howard Dean.

He regularly says on his program: "Let it be Dean. Please, let it be Dean."

[McGavin999]

With the endorsement, Dean inherits a strong centrist base of aggrieved Democrats who still believe Gore was cheated of the presidency in 2000, Mitchell reported

Centerists? Is that what they're calling rabid liberals these days?

[kcvl]

"I was surprised," Mr. Lieberman said of Mr. Gore's decision as he arrived at a fund-raiser on West 22nd Street in Manhattan last night with his wife, Hadassah.

Mr. Lieberman went on to assert that he was staying in the race, and he took a swipe at Dr. Dean, saying, "But I am more determined than ever to continue to fight for what's right for my party and my country and to move both my party and my country forward, not backward."

Pressed by reporters on whether Mr. Gore's endorsement mattered, he chuckled and said, "More tomorrow."

In a written statement earlier in the day, Mr. Lieberman pointedly noted how he had remained loyal to Mr. Gore. "I have a lot of respect for Al Gore," he said. "That is why I kept my promise not to run if he did."

Even after Mr. Gore's intentions had spread through news reports early yesterday evening, Jano Cabrera, Mr. Lieberman's chief spokesman, said that Mr. Gore had not called his onetime running mate to alert him. But Mr. Lieberman's aides said the campaign was not caught completely by surprise because officials had been hearing rumors of an endorsement of Dr. Dean for days.

Mr. Lieberman and his aides said he would not change his strategy, which is to try to place third or better in the first primary state of New Hampshire and then go on to win a significant number of states on Feb. 3, when the primaries move to the South and the West.

Still, there were signs the Lieberman campaign was scrambling. His aides decided to keep the fund-raiser closed to the news media last night, after considering opening it for coverage, and canceled a campaign event planned for this afternoon before a Democratic debate in New Hampshire.

On Sunday, Mr. Lieberman was in Florida remembering the bitter 36-day recount there when the contested presidential election of 2000 stood in the balance.

He reminded a crowd of Democrats how close it had been until a 5-to-4 decision of the Supreme Court sealed George W. Bush's victory. "We got mad, didn't we?" he said. "Now let's get even."

[mewzilla]

Howie's toast. The Toons now have him lock, stock, and barrel. The only question now is what do they have on Howie that's given them such excellent leverage? Inquiring minds want to know....

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Will the media have similar s if Dan Quale endorses Bush?

Gore is a loser, ex-VP. Who cares who he wants to win.