I never understood all the enthusiasm for Lieberman by conservatives/Republicans in this Senate race anyway.
I didn't either. People were acting as if he were another Zell Miller.
he is a strong supporter of the war on terrorism. we should be fortunate we can get even that out of connecticut.
Why?! What's so hard to understand that Lieberman is 5X better than his opponent, Demented?
Say a little bird told me.
After that, as far as anything official goes, Lieberman will be a full member of the Democrat establishment. Joe Lieberman is as much a Democrat as Pat Leahy. What's unbelievably ironic about all this is that the money that Lieberman turns over is almost exclusively from the $6-$8 million in GOP contributors that Rove steered towards him. So you'll effectively have Bush Pioneer types funding the Democrat party. BRILLIANT STRATEGY GUYS -- so glad that money went to a stalwart conservative like Loserman rather than to, I DON'T KNOW ---- George Allen.
The race was interesting because it was direct evidence that Iraq was _not_ the deciding factor in 2006. Votes in Conn had a clear choice between a pro-War and an anti-War candidate that was untouched by the Congressional Republican scandals, spending, earmarks and just plain bad bills.
And they went for the pro-War candidate.
Agreed. Some on this board were more excited with Lieberman than with true conservative candidates. It made me nauseous.
"I never understood all the enthusiasm for Lieberman by conservatives/Republicans in this Senate race anyway."
Lamont was a commie, a serious real commie, that is why.
Simple! He is a chameleon. He is a likeable guy, even though he is a staunch liberal democ rat. He was likeable before 2000 and then changed his stripes to team up with none other than Big Al Gore. That failed so Joe moved to the right again? Hannity drools over this guy. When Lieberman, again changing his stripes, left the democ rat party to run as an independent pubbies saw him, once again, as an OK guy. OK enough to give him 37% of his vote in the general election. Now that he has won and the democ rats have won, Ol' Joe, being the chameleon that he is says, "call me a democ rat"!
Trust him as far as you can throw a bull by his gonads......
Neither did I.