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Joe Lieberman Actively Seeking Votes For John McCain From Clinton Supporters

Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in Politics.
Jun 5th, 2008 | Comments

He’s now making a direct pitch to recruit supporters of Hillary Clinton.

Prediction: The Democrats won’t do anything in terms of ostracizing Lieberman right now. But after the elections it’s highly likey that no matter what has been said so far they’ll make life difficult for him. The reason: the Democratic party base is going to demand it, particularly if it shapes up as a close Presidential election.

There are several was to perceive Lieberman. To many Democrats, he is a turncoat. To Republicans and to some independents (independents tend to be split in the way they lean, although they are now leaning more towards the Democrats) he is courageous. But his problem in coming years will be with Democrats: they need him now to retain their Senate majority. But if they don’t after the November elections, they may feel he has now crossed the line and that they want to help shove him totally over it.

casualobserver

Now what was that final spread again between ol' Joe and the darling candidate of the left....10 points? Does he really need to care what the darlings think of him now or next year?

As long as the D's don't get 60 seats (I suspect a pretty long shot), he's certainly no worse off.

Slamfu

No more than the democrats deserve for throwing him to the wolves. They brought this on themselves.

GreenDreams

no sale, Slamfu. The DNC and many voters did not support Joe because he no longer supports the party's platform. And they didn't throw him to the wolves, they had a mutually beneficial compromise, in which he got to be a majority member of Committees and vote with the minority, while they got to BE the majority party.

Neocon

Joe Lieberman the last time I looked or when I studied civics in 9th grade represents the people of his home state. He does not represent the Democrats.

He is affiliated with democrats. He sides with democrats but he represents his home state and the people that voted for him.

This continues to be the very reason why this nation will never have a third party. The two parties have so ingrained themselves into the mindset of Americans that we no longer think about the country unless its from a political persepective of Democrat or Republican.

I am beginning to understand the mindset of the states rights, libertarians who see things the way it was intended to be. Not the Way Democrats or Republicans have convinced us they should be.

kritt11

Lieberman represents mostly himself. He alligned with Independents and got a lot of help from the GOP to win back his Senate seat. He's used his position to get the maximum amount of power possible- even threatening to caucus with the Republicans after promising his constituents to caucus with the Democrats if they reelected him. He's an opportunist.

lurxst

He also shows some memory lapses in his statement of support for John McCain, claiming that McCain stood against the poor war policies of Bush.

Er..when was this?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/12/ap/po...

runasim

I don't know what inner demons drive Lieberman to be the kind of politician he is, so I reserve judgment on him as a human being.
As a public figure, though, he has becone what I teach my grandchildren not to be: a user.
It seems pretty clear to me that he would jump ship again if either McCain or the GOP strayed an inch from his fanatical policy obsessons.

DLS

"But first and foremost, I am an American. I have an obligation to do what I think is best for our nation regardless of political party. [...]

I am confident we will find many Democrats and Independents who, like John McCain and me, put country before political party and will support a leader with a real record of bipartisanship."

The extreme Left and nearly-as-bad lockstep-party-line Dems will hate him for it.

Now that he has said this (and we've observed this before if Holly says it, to name one example), he can expect the truly-far-right-style Samuel Francis treatment.

Lieberman is AN AGENT OF A FOREIGN POWER!

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