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Lieberman
This is a short one but hopefully I can get some information and discussion. I sort of get why he is going there......but can someone closer to CT give me a better idea? I guess we all know we have a common enemy now don't we? His name is Joe McLiberman. Benedict Arnold.
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I have such an irrational hatred of that man. Fortunately for me, it's becoming less and less irrational by the day. I'm in CT. It wasn't Democrats that put him in office. The Republican who was running in the 2006 Senate race garnered an extremely small percentage of the votes.
Check out these exit polls:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/CT/S/01/epolls.0.html
Particularly the number of voters by party affiliation. 70% of the state's Republican's voted for him. 54% of Independents. He only got 33% of the Democratic vote, and I would wager a guess that that had a lot to do with name familiarity at that point.
On the bright side of things, he's doing a bang up job of uniting us on this!
April 16, 2008 10:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
How soon until you fine folks in CT can get rid of him?
April 16, 2008 10:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
2012. I'm hoping to at least get a bunch of Senate pickups in the fall so we can kick him to the curb.
April 16, 2008 11:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
I live in Connecticut, and I can't really help.
Joe is the party of Joe ever since 2005, or so. He's broken every promise he made to voters to convince a slim majority of Connecticut residents to vote for him, even after he lost the primary. They likely did so because he USED to be a fairly decent senator. I didn't. I voted for the real antiwar opponent, Lamont. I knew this would come back to bite Obama in the butt, but I figure it's like wage expectations. Who knew Lieberman would fall so far so fast? It's even surprised me, and I was disgusted with him in 2006.
I should hope Obama would denounce him as easily as Lieberman denounced him. What is quite obvious to anyone concerned is that Joe has changed, a LOT. That is a case Obama won't have any trouble making. Heck, I'll be happy to help him make it.
The junior senator from Connecticut will be lucky if he isn't recalled. He most certainly won't win another election in this state.
Every time that turncoat opens his mouth, 1,000 Liberals in Connecticut gag and have to refrain from vomiting.
April 16, 2008 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is it his concern for our stance in the middle east? A worry about Isreal that causes him to react this way?
April 16, 2008 10:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe, or maybe he just got promised AG by the Repubs. He's always been ambitious.
You bet I'll pound him on his website, if it doesn't crash and burn first.
I've called his office to complain about him so many times, I have the number memorized.
April 16, 2008 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
I've been on his website before as well. We cannot let him try and trash one of our Candidates without a full assualt on him. We HAVE to find a way to change the dynamic in the Senate so we can tell him to go f--- himself.
April 16, 2008 10:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
I just sent him a scathing email.
I feel a little better.
http://lieberman.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
April 16, 2008 10:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Couldn't be more true. Everyone I know is also surprised at how far he's taken this. He ran by trying to paint Lamont as the crazy left-winger and talking up bipartisanship. Little did most know that bipartisanship, to Joe, meant turning into a full-fledged Republican.
April 16, 2008 10:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
What makes me vomit is that the party didn't come out for Lamont at all in trying to not "hurt" Liberman. To my chagrin Billary came out for him as well. I honestly think the guy must have gone mental. One can make a case for Zel Miller. Georgia white boy. But Liberman? what gives.
April 16, 2008 10:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
To their defense, they only supported him in the primary. Once Lamont got the Democratic nomination, they supported him. Ditto with Obama. Going into the primary, he had the majority of the support from the establishment. Most of those supported Lamont in the general though.
April 16, 2008 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's true, and to give Hillary a little credit, she did say she wouldn't support him if he ran as an independent before he actually did. That was good of her as the Dem establishment was hemming and hawing at the time.
I still think he broke some rules. I wish they could declare his run null and void.
April 16, 2008 10:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
If he goes after Barack, I'd hope that all of us will pound him on his web site. If your not with us your against us. He needs to pay.
April 16, 2008 10:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Louisville, I couldn't decide if this was sarcastic or not for a moment. Maybe we should be thanking Lieberman, in a round-about way. ;)
And I honestly see no way in giving him the boot until after November, unfortunately.
April 16, 2008 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
{sigh} Damn it. You're right.
Joe still does vote like a Dem on a lot of issues. Not good enough for me, though.
At least we've got Dodd.
April 16, 2008 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Uh no. Family fight. We can kick each other all over the place but if your not in the family and take a shot....look out. Seriously. Redneck Kentucky comes out in me. :)
April 16, 2008 11:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm registered as a dem for now, Louisville.
:D
I have a friend in Kentucky, Owensboro, he's got the dreamiest voice...
April 16, 2008 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
well I really didn't mean part of the part. I meant mostly our mindset. I think most here have similar values and can be called a "family". If they start shooting at us they shoot at all of us.
Don't get me wrong. I think Barack is a very accomplished Politician. But thats for another post and another argument. You can call me names over there :)
April 16, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
April 16, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
If he speaks at the GOP convention, I hope the democrats kick him off the committees he chairs. Why reward disloyalty?
April 16, 2008 10:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Problem is we aren't majority without him. If we kick we have to have a plan b to keep the chairs. Right now we don't have it.
April 16, 2008 10:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Louisville, I'm responding here to your comment here, and hopeful that you'll track it over.
Yes, I have said things in the past, and you've called me out for being snotty (though I don't think I was being such in that instance), but I am trying to approach things differently now. This has less to do with the primary than it does to do with various personal changes.
I have given in to defending Obama in a way that wasn't productive. I apologize if anything I've said has offended you. That's from me, the real me, and not a green dinosaur'd avatar.
While I don't agree with every criticism you have of Obama, I do think you're by and large more reasonable than those who get dismissed as trolls, and I do welcome criticism toward him and, in fact, think it's our duty as citizens.
Mea culpa. I won't blame you if you write this off as the late-night musings of an Obamaton (and please don't take that to mean my support of him has wavered!) -- but no, I'm not going to be consistent. I'm going to be kind. Hopefully that's a change for the better.
April 18, 2008 12:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Heh, though it would help if I didn't do it under an umbrella account I registered to beat others to the punch, and in a thread of your own origin. :)
Nonetheless, the sentiment is my own and sincere. Reply to let me know you've seen it, or I'll have to track you to a more relevant blog!
April 18, 2008 12:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
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