Posted on 12/12/2004 6:20:24 AM PST by Liz
Can Joe (I'll-say-anything-to-win) LIEberman be trusted?
Silly question.
LIEberman won his Senate seat by outright lying about his abortion position.
Getting elected on the backs of the innocent unborn is not something that would inspire confidence in a position requiring utmost integrity.
If Joey would go to the lengths he did to get the pro-life vote - lying smackdab in the face of pro-lifers, telling them what he knew they wanted to hear - he is surely capable of promising just about anything he thinks people want to hear.
Abortion separates the men from the boys. As a radical pro-abortion advocate who voted six times for partial birth abortions, Joey proved himself to be a pimple-faced adolescent who fools the folks into thinking he's at the library when he's out smoking weed with the rest of the nerds.
Appoint him to HomeLand Secretary?
I wouldn't trust him to walk my dog.
In Sept 2000, The Washington Times reported how Lieberman, a staunch pro-abortion candidate made a pro-life pledge to religious leaders.
EXCERPT: Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is a staunch supporter of abortion rights now, and even voted (six times) against a ban on partial-birth abortion, but Catholic leaders in Connecticut remember another Joe Lieberman.
He called on the state's archbishop with a pro-life pledge 12 years ago, when he was first a candidate for the U.S. Senate.......(and) met with Archbishop John F. Whealon of Hartford to seek Catholic votes in the final stretch of his 1988 Democratic bid to oust 18-year Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a Republican who supported abortion rights.....
"Joe was very liberal, like Weicker, but we had a poll on abortion that showed which way the wind was blowing," says Daniel Cosgrove, then the Democratic town chairman in Branford, Mr. Lieberman's hometown.
The poll showed anti-abortion sentiment outweighed pro-choice views in urban areas throughout Connecticut. "In the Waterbury area, it was more than any, 12,000 [more] against," Mr. Cosgrove says.
"He expressed himself against abortion, all suicide, and euthanasia. His position on that definitely was well received by the archbishop and priests" religious leaders said.
In fact, Mr. Lieberman's pro-life assurances were so convincing that Archbishop Whealon arranged for the Democratic candidate to meet with Catholic priests throughout the state shortly before the November 1988 balloting. Mr. Lieberman's expressed pro-life views in those meetings, Father Berry said. "That probably was not insignificant" in the November 1988 election outcome, he said.
Even the Democrats think LIEberman sucks (not that their opinion matters, but my point is that everyone except the man himself hates him).
I won't permit him to walk my dog either.
Lieberman would be an horrid choice.
I like former OK governor Frank Keating for the post.
Asa Wimpy Hutchinson might get the nod.
He has been threatening to resign his Undersecretary position because he got passed over last round. He is sending out trial balloons to see how receptive Arkansans are to his running for governor.
Keating is an interesting suggestion. You might be onto something. I recall that Bush considered him for the VP slot but that there was 'something' (never knew what) in his background that caused the idea to be nixed.
Keating would be good. Thanks for mentioning him.
He was in line for a Bush appt in 200o, but he screwed it up by saying he wanted it......a no-no.
I'm sorry I haven't been keeping up lately. But THIS is an option? Really? oh jeesh!
Wimp won't cut it.
That's why Bush wanted a no-wimp type like Kerik.
Yeah, LIEb has even been getting his supporters revved up to manipulate public opinion.
There's been FR posts boosting him, as well............the usual trolls.
I cast my vote for Zell Miller to head the DHS
LOL........I guess LIEb is his own best friend.
Man, talk about a guy with guts.....Zell is the one.
Does Zell want the job ? His age might indicate otherwise.
1. Tommy Franks
2. Joe Albaugh (former FEMA guy)
3. The sheriff out in Arizona who makes the inmates sleep in tents and wear pink underwear.
Yep.
Good nominees........#3 has been mentioned. Great guy. LOL.
I just hope Albaugh got a different hair stylist by now.
Age would be a factor to be sure.
Huh?
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