Lieberman to Skip Democratic Convention
As if the world needed confirmation, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman -- the one-time Democratic vice-presidential candidate turned self-proclaimed Independent Democrat turned John McCain supporter -- told the Connecticut press Friday that he'll be skipping the Democratic National Convention in August.
I am not going to attend the Democratic Convention for obvious reasons.
Lieberman, who still caucuses with the Democrats, has put party leaders in a tough spot in the last year: While they desperately need him to maintain the upper chamber's thin Democratic majority, the party faithful are also growing weary of his decision to side with Republicans on prominent issues, not least of all over the Iraq war and his choice of presidential candidate.
As Matt Blake reported last week, Lieberman is well aware of the Democrats' reliance on him, and is milking that position for all it's worth. But with the party likely to increase its Senate edge in November, the question remains: What will become of Lieberman when he's not so indispensable?
Actually, the senator may have answered that question himself last week. As several Connecticut papers reported over the weekend:
Friday, Lieberman said he will attend the Republican National Convention this summer, "if Senator McCain thinks it will be helpful to be there in some capacity."
Perhaps then the evolution would be complete.
Comments:
Posted 03/20/2008 12:51am with
To quote our illustrious VP when asked about the majority of Americans who oppose the war…”So”?
As if we didn’t already know what Lieberman represents(and who) he has finally come out of the closet to tell the world….he’s a Republican. Part of the Great Oil Party. He should be the first to go after the elections…or better yet now. His prime loyalty has always been to himself, from the first time he took money from William F. Buckley to run against moderate Republican Lowell Weickert.
Thirteen years ago, Lieberman joined Lynne Cheney in co-founding the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. Sole purpose was to attack dissident educators, setting themselves up as cultural commissars who took on the right to decide what was and wasn’t appropriate patriotism when educators explored key public issues. Their approach would have fit well in Communist East Germany, but seemed strangely out of place in a democracy, and Lieberman’s never disassociated himself from it.
He’s already suggested that hospitals should have the right to refuse emergency contraception to rape victims, and force them to go elsewhere in the middle of the night.
What kind of supporters does this person have?
Posted 03/20/2008 05:35am with
You know, of course, we are going to see a McCain\Lieberman ticket.
They will get elected after the Clinton\Obama mutual assured destruction campaign strategy.
And then, to quote Ronald Reagan: “The bombing begins in ten minutes.”
That is assuming Bush can resist a military trifecta prior to his departure.
The Soviets, itching to show some spine ever since the Cuban missile embargo, will do something very scary.
Israel will take a nuke from somewhere.
Biblical predictions to follow.
Posted 03/20/2008 11:50pm with
That’s devolution not evolution.
What’s more good riddance to bad blue dogs. Lieberman always was a DINO. Never saw a capital gains tax cut he didn’t like.