Posted on 12/16/2007 12:19:59 PM PST by Alter Kaker
If Lieberman switched parties, wouldn’t that give the GOP control of the Senate again?
Still though Lieberman is a socialist because CT demands socialism. He might actually like to think “out of the box” but they won’t let him in CT.
Counting Bernie Sanders as a Dem, it would be a 50-50 tie with Cheney as tiebreaker. If Lieberman was going to switch, he would’ve done so already though, and he’s a leftie on most issues. So is McCain, which is why he endorsed him, they are both pro-war liberals.
No, Calhoun never changed parties. He was more Democrat than Jackson. He served as secretary of state in the Whig administration from 1844-45, but Clay had declared Tyler no longer a Whig.
Agreed.
I can see McCain switching to Independent though....he’s nearly there already.
You might want to look at this then:
Kansas: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935133/posts
Arizona: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934696/posts
Ohio: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934677/posts
Massachusetts: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932892/posts
New Mexico: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930336/posts
Oregon: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928698/posts
Florida: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928497/posts
Virginia: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928219/posts
Minnesota: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927627/posts
Wisconsin: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927624/posts
Iowa: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927619/posts
What about a McCain-Lieberman 3rd party run?
Think it's possible?
*Shudder* McCain’s ego is big enough, and he’s crazy. Hopefully, Lieberman would have more sense than that.
Exactly
Guess if such a crazy man is nominated, we should all vote for the Democrat, instead, right?
Do independents vote in the Republican primaries there?
You lost me when you said Bush should be considered a socialist.
I didn’t say I’d vote for Lieberman. I said it was a gutsy move. And if he was so prone to take the easiest road toward reelection, why didn’t he do what was necessary to get his party’s backing? He has been a staunch supporter of the war effort. That deserves some credit in my book.
I’m glad to see Lieberman lean toward the republican even if it is McCain. Maybe if there are any real “blue dog Democrats” They will vote Republican. I’m voting for whichever Republican wins the nomination even though McCain would be my LAST choice, except for Ron Paul.
Well, he became among the strongest opponents of the sitting Democratic president and a strong supporter of the Whig president, however far he may have been from the party’s beliefs.
That’s what I’m hoping for.
“That won’t sit well with the moonbats”
I’ve yet to have any of them explain what they actually WON when they cheered Ned Lamont’s “Victory” over leiberman....
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That wasn't direct to me....but can I play? PLEEEAAASE?
Thanks:
- Most of the other candidates (admittedly except Fred) oppose the obnoxious, anti-1st-Amendment, McPain-Feingold Political Speech Rationing Act.
- The other candidates supported Bush's tax cuts. McPain fought them, using Dem class-warfare lines about "tax cuts for the rich."
- Most of the other candidates have expressed at least some skepticism about the Chicken-Little environmentalists and their Global Warming hobby horse. McPain has bought it all hook, line, and sinker.
- McCain UNIQUELY distinguished himself as a traitor to the conservative cause by participating in the Gang of 14, which lent aid and comfort to the left in its effort to stop conservative Supreme Court appointments.
- McCain joined (surprise, surprise) Chuck Schumer, Teddy Kennedy, Hillary and the other leftists in the Senate to denounce waterboarding as "torture" EVEN AFTER KNOWING FROM HIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS THAT WATERBOARDING HAS HELPED US TO BREAK UP NUMEROUS TERROR CELLS. This was a two-fer for McPain: aid and comfort to the Dems and Al Queda at the same time. I don't believe any of the other candidates (except maybe Ron Paul) has unequivocally said he wouldn't waterboard if lives were at stake - AND THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
- McCain has repeatedly insulted and impuned the motives of evangelicals. Even Guiliani and Romney (neither of whom I support) have maligned Christian conservatives the way McPain has.
- ONLY McCain engaged in a years-long personal vendetta with the Secretary of Defense as he was trying to fight a war. Not behind closed doors, but in the press (as he fights ALL his battles against fellow Republicans and conservatives).
- True to form, McCain joined the MSM/Democrat axis of evil to denounce the Swift Boaters in 2004 for telling the TRUTH about John Kerry. I don't think any other GOP nominee did that.
McCain's entire case for the Presidency seems to be: "I was a prisoner-of-war, and the mainstream media love me." They DO love him, of course, because he can always be counted on to stab conservatives in the back. On taxes, on judges, on global warming, you name it, he'll do it to curry favor with the Tim Russerts of the world.
Is that a paragraph yet?
Hank
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