Posted on 01/26/2010 5:56:55 AM PST by Justaham
Senator Joe Lieberman told Eyewitness News 3 that it is possible that he could run as a “good old-fashioned New England Republican” in 2012. Lieberman says he was kicked out of the Democratic party in the 2006 primary after his stance on the Iraq War.
For the record, Joe Lieberman was right on Iraq. The surge was a huge success and today Iraq is continuing to take steps on its path towards democracy… no thanks to the cut-and-run democrats and the state-run media who did everything they could to impede success in this front against Al-Qaeda and radical Islam.
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Thank you Joe, but we already have enough Moderate Republicans ... in fact, we are trying to get rid of them.
This is only possible because the Republican Party leadership has been running to the left so that they will be better liked at beltway dinner parties.
It reflects on the GOP, not on Lieberman. Lieberman hasn’t changed.
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Well said. The party of lil’ Mikey Tinsel is the party of Colin Powell, Dede Scozzafava and Lindsey Graham.
A secondary target, in other words. First we need to slay the dragons, then get to the lizards.
Make that a “McCain Republican.”
Lieberman voted for the Healthcare takeover bill. He is a socialist!
We still need the lizards to vote for our side, though. There's the rub. We have to convert them to the Right side again.
Sorry Joe, you’re no Conservative and hence will NEVER get a Repub nomination. The Conservative Ascendancy is in full swing and will no longer accept douchers like you.
Go play in the sandbox with your “distinguished colleague” Chris “Friend of Angelo” Dodd. Get off the public stage.
“Joe Lieberman Says “It’s Possible” That He Could Run as Moderate Republican in 2012 (Video)”
The same jackasses that were on this forum pushing McCain in 08 would back him. You just watch.
LOL!
We still need the lizards to vote for our side, though. There’s the rub. We have to convert them to the Right side again.
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There is that too. That was one of the features of Reagan that we have not seen in a long time. The ability to persuade THEM to come over to OUR side.
Exactly. Joe’s number one prioity is to look out for Joe. Another RINO? No thanks.
I don’t want him. However, two things that are obviously true:
1. Joe has shown that he will, on matters of party discipline, be a “good soldier”. Even as an independent, he has backed the democrats he caucuses with when he clearly disagreed with him. That would be useful for the republicans, if we have no other choice in the matter.
2. We have no other choice in the matter. In a year where Lieberman ran in a general election as an independent, against both a Democrat primary winner and a Republican, he still won his election. That pretty much shows that it would be virtually impossible for a Republican to ever beat Leiberman in a general election. With ZERO chance of putting a republican in the seat, and a virtual certainty that Lieberman WILL be in that seat, having him vote with OUR party on organization and party displine matters is better than having him vote with Democrats.
The only downside would be that he would have a committee chair somewhere that should be a republicans. But if he was willing to take a chair in a committee like a foreign relations or military, where he is largely on our side, it might be a worthwhile tradeoff.
I don’t think anybody would ever confuse him for a “moderate republican”, or treat his support for a particular democratic agenda item as a sign of “bipartisanship”.
I would much prefer that. Run as an independent, but tell your constituents you will caucus with Republicans. And if the Republicans in return don’t run a candidate, that would be OK with me.
I think you mean, No Jose, No, Juan.
The cynical view is that, if things stay as they are, we will almost certainly retake the Senate in 2012. We’ll likely be over halfway there after this election, and in 2012, over 2/3rds of the seats are democrat, mostly in marginally republican areas.
So cynically, this could be Joe just wanting to be in the majority, when we might not need him to BE in the majority.
On the other hand, I don’t see how a republican ever wins that seat while Lieberman is there — we couldn’t even beat him when there was a democrat primary winner on the ballot against him.
Except when we need them to stop Obama, like Scott Brown in Mass. OR when we owe them, like Palin backing McCain in Arizona.
Before his switch to Ind-Dem, wasn’t Lieberman one of the most ‘liberal’ Senators on social issues.
About the only thing he was ‘moderate’/right on was military/WOT matters.
The Pubbies don’t need another Collins/Snowe type nor another Graham/McCain wannabe maverick type.
He's got absolutely no support from either party.
Quite redundant.
He voted for heathcare, we dont wont him.
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