Joe Lieberman Offers To Be The GOP's Zell Miller In 2008
By Logan Murphy Monday Mar 17, 2008 9:38am
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn, told the editorial board of The Advocate and Greenwich Time he's supporting Republican John McCain for president because he's the most likely to bring about change in Washington.
"He actually, in my opinion, will bring about more change than the Democratic candidates because he's a boat-rocker . . . a problem-solver," Lieberman said of McCain. "He's really a reformer."
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." Read on...
The Independent Senator from Connecticut leaves out the real reason he supports McCain -- he's a warmonger and wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years and bomb-bomb-bomb Iran, just like Joe. McCain is not a reformer anymore, the Maverick is dead and gone. Lieberman is part of the McSurge triplets currently stumping for McCain in Iraq, I think the GOP will gladly extend an invitation to him for his service to the party.
Good grief. Lieberman-the most famous backstabber in America. Which way is the wind blowing Joe? Ah, tis blowing north........what an idiot.
I still can't believe this is the same idiot that was on the ticket with Gore in 2000...
He will make his grand entrance on a giant papier mache' float of a Summer's Eve douchebag that is pulled by 4 jackasses.
-GSD
The Dems look like jerks...AGAIN.
"Independent" is such a phony label - from Joe Lieberman, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs - ALL phonies. Everyone knows who's water they carry!
Joe Lieberman is not a Democrat, not even an Independent - he is a right wing war mongering, tax cutting, ass kissing Republican.
Once the Democrats take control of the Senate in 2009 - he should be stripped of all committee assignments and be assigned a parking place somewhere to the west of Manassas.
Lieberman is banking on McCain winning the nomination so he can get a job in the Administration.
He can't win in Connecticut again, and he knows it.
GSD @ 3:
Ha! I'm going to Shanghai that one. Thanks for the laugh.
'McSurge triplets' (hee hee)
By all means, let McCain/Lieberman run on the
BushBushChangeBushBuddyCanYouSpareSomeChange platform.Dear Republican Party,
You can have this bitter old untrustworthy ugly attention whore. We don't need his ass anymore.
[deleted - over the top. sitemonitor], Joe Lieberman.
I'm quite sure the people of Connecticut who voted for him are very proud right about now.
No wonder Gore lost-- so will McCain if Liebermann is running as V.P.
Unless Diebold fix the 2008 election [:-(
Next time you hear Lieberman speak, tell me he's not the guy who did the voice of Droopy Dog.
Didn't Hillary and Schumer support "Chinless Joe" Lieberman over Lamont in the last election?
Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
Jay Johnson @ 13:
He has that Jowl action going on, too. That's why Jon Stewart does such an awesome impression of him!
Met his wife, she's really pretty. And nice.
It is clear that Lieberman is supporting McCain simply because McCain is a big Lieberman supporter of the idea that a war with Iran is a good idea. We will not to to war with Iran until we have sufficient carrier presence in the 5th Fleet area. Will Bush bring that about prior to this fall? It seems the odds are 50/50 that we will.
Right now the USS Truman (CVN 75) is in the Persian Gulf. It is scheduled to return home in June. The USS Nimitiz (CVN 68) is off China, it just linked up with the USS Essex, (LHD 2) an amphibious assault group, and is capable of being in the Persian Gulf on short notice. The USS Lincoln i(CVN 72) s leaving in a couple of days to go to the Gulf. It will be followed, probably in May, by the USS Reagan (CVN 76). We need three carriers groups in the area to attack Iran. Traditionally we have had one such group except for a few weeks when a replacement carrier overlapped the one there.
It is rumored that Admiral Fallon resigned because he saw there was an intent to increase our carrier presence in the waters around Iran.
It is also suspected that a flare up with Iran leading up to the election will be beneficial to those intent on preserving the Bush legacy.
It is the coming together of the McCain and Lieberman (and Sen. Graham) combine; Pastor John Hagee a McCain supporter with his Christians United for Israel group ; and the Bush and Cheney Legacy Preservation Cabal that makes war with Iran the 50/50 probability.
Watch The Carriers and you'll know which way to place your bets.
Ahh the delicate dance of the Right Wing and some members Jewish Community. The wingers want to support Israel so Jezus will reward them with a Rapture up to Heaven. Even though it means the Jews who cling to their religion will be damned to Hell. The Jews find themselves seeking protection in 'this' world from souls who have damned them in the 'next'.
Poor Joe. And Ed Kotch. And Dennis Miller. And Rupert Murdoch. And.................................................
Can Harry get rid of him now? WTF?
mudshark hussein @ 12:
I believe that a majority of people who voted for him were Republicans. They well may be proud of him. Most of my friends who formerly were Republicans have become Independents. The Republican party has become a party of religious nut jobs who want to bomb anyone of a different religious persuasion and control public discourse and spend money like drunken sailors. They're the American Taliban, but in Walmart clothing.
The Israeli government wants us to stay in Iraq for a hundred years or so.
Joe is a warmonger.
It's not complicated folks.
F U holy joe!
Hillary supported Joe Lieberman.
Just one more reason I will never vote for her.
Okay, okay, so McCain and Lieberman both want the U S to stay in Iraq, but their reasons are based on their loyalty to different countries.
Wow...Joe's really pissed that he's no longer a superdelegate, isn't he??
Jay Johnson @ 13:
Oh, Damn, you just ruined a perfect childhood memory for me.
Razzamatazz @ 2:
The funny thing is that Lieberman has always been constant regarding his conservative stance.
And no amount of PowerPoint (or is it really Keynote) presentations will change the fact that Gore was a founding member of the DLC, you know the same group that decided that the best strategy was to out-conserve the GOP themselves.
Men like Lieberman and McCain are not leaders. They are followers and that is painfully obvious. They do not "rock the boat" they simply go with the flow. If anyone does "rock the boat" those two are the first ones to jump to the side of the boat that is the furthest from the water and we have seen many times where they did just that.
McCain the Liar @ 22:
Well, we have a problem then... because Obama also supported Lieberman for Senate.
We are, in the parlance of our times, fucked.
BaddogLtd @ 17:
Is it me? Or does it seem like a TERRIBLE idea to force the hand of God. I think the bible says Armageddon will start when GOD is ready, not when the Republicans are ready!
This country is in the shitter because of the bush policies. McCain wants to keep the bush tax cuts (this week anyway). He voted for torture, even when he has campaign videos reminding us how he was tortured. He voted to eliminate Habeas Corpus. He voted against SCHIP. He worries more about how violence in Iraq will effect his chances of winning the WH than how many of our troops will die. He wants to stay in Iraq and now Afghanistan for a hundred years. How exactly is McCain the one that will bring change? Lieberman is nucking futs and since we don't have enough votes in the Senate to pass anything anyway, they should kick his ass out.
Fluffer....ok, so he can go down on his knees to any republican wagging a war in his trousers....
What else can he do? Nothin'!
The Dude @ 28:
I don't remember Obama coming to Connecticut and making speeches for Joe like Hillary did.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/10/26/lamont_...
Every time that I see Lieberman's face I want to scream at him, "What are you thinking?!?!?!?!"
I can only hope that Democrats make enough progress in the Senate this election cycle so that we can show Old Joe the door and let him make his GOP membership official.
deezus @ 29:
I always found it a bit of a logical fallacy, that if the Christian God is indeed omnipresent, omnipotent, and all good. That if he/she/it needed help in bringing forth a ending plan that involves destruction, death an pain at a massive global scale.
The he/she/it must be neither omnipotent, not omnipresent, and most definitively not all good.
Omnipotent beings do not need help from 3rd parties to effect their plans.
Omnipresent entities can actuate anywhere without help either.
And all good beings most definitively can't inflict pain, in account of pain being... you know, bad.
But what the hell do I know, trying to use logic. After all, god acts in mysterious ways indeed. Which I also did find ironic too. Because religious peeps seem to assume God is not understandable when it comes to them having to pass any sort of litmus test for logical coherency... so if you don't understand someone or something, how can you be certain and speak in lieu of them regarding of what they want/need/desire?
McCain the Liar @ 32:
Obama did publicly support his run for the senate. Sure, he may have not given a speech per se.
But now we are just discussing which part of a fecal dropping smells the least bad. The shiniest part of a shit is still that; shit. But that is just me....
call me nutz but they are a perfect match for each other.
mccain and LIEberman are, truly, like lovers entwined in a climactic embrace, shuddering in the after-glow of blissful passion.
and, this is good for the democratic candidates. both 'men', mccain and LIEberman, are easily lampooned for the ironic and paradoxical slogans put forth by their merry band of henchmen.
mccain considers himself the straight talk candidate, but has made a practice of mincing his words, embracing those he disagrees with and, well, lying like a fucking rug.
LIEberman sells himself, and talks up, the idea that he is some sort of uniting politician. He believes he is able to bring dems and reps together, when, in reality, people can't run away from this guy fast enough. like some sort of leper from the 17th century with a bell around his neck people know to steer clear of this radioactive and pathetic worm.
which it makes all the more a gag when these two war-spawn come together in mutual masturbation, pretending that even their followers believe the snake-oil they peddle. they are a complete joke, a sad and pitiful joke, but a joke nonetheless.
deezus @ 29:
Nope, its not just you. Apparently, God needs a lot of help getting this whole Armageddon thing together or at least, that is the way the Republicans see it. God's commandments need a little help to. From the Republican/right wing one of God's commandments doesn't just say "Thou shalt not kill" To them it says: Thou shalt not kill (but in case of evildoers do as you like). Its to bad God just doesn't measure up to the right wing religious nuts in the Republican party.
NOW, can he be stripped of any chairmanships he has? NOW? PLEASE?
deezus @ 29:
These nuts are praying for Jesus to come back. Well, they'd better be careful what they ask for..'cuase this time Jesus is bringin' his Dad with him.
The Dude @ 34:
Well, I've always been taught that just because WE don't think something is good, doesn't mean it isn't. It is also my belief that if you try to start the rapture or the end times ON PURPOSE you get to go to Hell too!
RickinSF @ 14:
Nope, you're correct. Clinton and (DINO) Schumer both supported Lie-berman. Glad to see that's working out so well for them.
Liberal AND Proud @ 39:
that's awesome. ;>
How did this nut job end as Al Gore's running mate?
Okay, everybody, we need to flood Harry Reid's office with emails, faxes, phone calls, demanding he strip this SOB of all his committee assignments. Zell Miller wasn't in a position to do any damage when he went on his rant because the ReThugs were in power.
Thanks, state of Connecticut, not for being the "Nutmeg" state, but being the state of nuts that re-elected this clown to his Senate seat so he could extract revenge on the Democrats. He succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, and now, he should be stripped of his assignments, because he hasn't voted with the Democrats anyway.
Stunts like this are way Chris Dodd should be Senate Majority Leader. He'd run Lieberman out on a rail.
I can't believe he's available for the GOP convention.
Lieberman is closely the Senate mentor to Obama once you all unserstand this many will agree to just say. " Keep the Change " .
Vote Hillary 2008.
Chuck @ 43:
Gore chose him.
Dale @ 45:
They booked his calendar for the whole week. Hope they're easy on him...he's not as young as he used to be. ; 0 )
Now all we need is a picture of the "Kiss" with McCain's face in place of Bush's, and it will be official: JOE AND JOHN ARE GOING STEADY.
personally, i would like to thank elmer fudd. at long last he has given service to the liberal wing of the democratic party. by his declaration of support for mccain, this spineless little turncoat has finally gotten the dems off their collective butts and they will begin to campaign for the democratic party, albeit, it's still a bit too early. I believe that we owe this dog excrement a vote of thanks, and while we're at it, let's give our thanks to the good people of connecticut who in their wisdom returned him to office. all right, elmer, and now, let's hear it for connecticut.
O.T. Waiting for Obama to speak and listening to the pundits. Some of these pundits make me want to throw up.
He should have been kicked to the curb committee wise in 06.
I think the GOP will gladly extend an invitation to him for his service to the party.
And we will thank them for taking him.......
Joe O. @ 37:
Also if you keep a cardinal sin scoreboard, a large number of GOPers manage perfect scores.
I guess there are some massive reading and comprehension challenges over at fundieland.
It doesn't surprise me that Mr AIPAC/CFR would do this...that is who controls America after all.
Liberal AND Proud @ 47:
Who wouldn't want him for a party? Here's his personal ad:
Mature, WM. Independent, enjoys the finer things in life. Swings both ways. Good kisser. Would love to be a running mate.
Although, I think it's safe to say he doesn't swing both ways anymore.
Ron @ 50:
I have the sound off.
Maybe McCain can draft him as his running mate.
That way Jolting Joe can be a solid 0-2.
Lieberman is co-sponsoring - with Brownback, natch - a Senate resolution declaring the first weekend in May as "Ten Commandments Weekend."
What a fucking tool.
Maybe 'Traitor Joe" might be a better nickname.
Rusty Stick a Fork in Him! He's Done! Shackleford @ 57:
I'd give them a weekend if they would shut the fuck up about the 10 commandments for the rest of the year.
The Dude @ 28:
Get your facts stright. Obama supported him in the primary. Obama went with Lamount in the election.
Rusty Stick a Fork in Him! He's Done! Shackleford @ 57:
I though the ten commandments was an all the time type of thing. I don't need someone to post the ten commandments or make a weekend about it. I memorized them. In case i forget, I know where to find them.
Jonathon @ 33:
the dems are so spineless, I doubt they'd get the "courage" to get rid of him even then.
Holy Joe has seen the writing on the wall (he scrawled a lot of it himself). When the Dems increase their majority in the Senate, Joe gets kicked to the curb -- as he should. His only hope to remain even marginally important is to latch on to McCain's Dementia Express and brown-nose his way into a cabinet post. It's a long shot, but it's all he's got.
How's Mr. Obama’s speech doing?
No coverage yet?
Lieberman is a prime example of why democrats need to vote for whom ever the candidate is. The democrats in Conneticut thought he wasn't so bad but now they see. The same thing is going to happen with McCain. If McCain gets in the whole of the United States will suffer. Both democratic candidates are 100 times better than McCain. If you what four more years of Bush vote for McCain.
We Believe!
I really REALLY want to hear from Conn Democrats that voted this jackass back in office for another term.
His promises to "ensure a Democrat is elected in '08" and "all the times he opposed George Bush" arguments he made to reassure Democrats that he was a safer choice than Lamont.
Where are these people now? I haven't heard from one of them.
Let me just say this. Joe Lieberman is an insufferable, lying slimeball who has, through his votes and political support, personally caused the deaths of almost 4000 American soldiers and over a million Iraqi civilians during this unnecessary, preemptive, and bloody War. And he has the gall to call himself a patriot. He is a gutter politician who has lied to himself and this country. If he had any decency, he would commit seppuku.
DC @ 65:
Yes, lest all be lemmings!
Afterall... Lieberman did not have made a good Senator after he became an Independent, yet he was perfectly qualified as a Vicepresident under a Dem guise.
The logical dissonance of loyalist becomes deafening at some point.
If anything Lieberman has is that he has been constant, he has not shifted a single iota on where he stands. If you think that 911 changed Lieberman, I have a nice bridge to sell you near prime real state in NYC.
Are there allot of people that still think Leiberman is a Democrat at this point? I personally am not concerned what Leiberman does, he has not exactly hidden the fact that he want to be the tooliest of right wing tools.
Why the hell doesn't Lieberman change his party affiliation to Republican and get it over with?
They seem to be having trouble with the sound system in the hall where Obama is to give his speech. To hear the talking heads on tv talk about this speech, it's do or die for Obama. I just do not believe that.
Joe Lieberman... what an effin' tard! Sit down and STFU old man!
radlib1 @ 68:
Yip when you peel away Joes phony public facade thats pretty much what's left.
I haven't seen Lieberman lately and now I know why. He is a Republican opperatve in Independant clothing.
Copy of Obama speech on Huffpo.
The Dude @ 28:
you bet@@@@@@@@@@@@@
The Dude @ 69:
I'm thoroughly confused by your comment.
Joe Lieberman, asshat, eater of dog excrement, please go to hell.
This is how I imagine a converstion between God and Jesus would be like if Lieberman became McCain's running mate:
God: Quick son! Get in the elevator! McCain now has Lieberman as his running mate and we know that they both want more war.
Jesus: Dammit dad! I'm getting tired of this getting in and out of the elevator crap. Are we going to do this Armageddon thing or what?
God: That depends on the Republicans but it sure looks like they are going to do it this time around.
Jesus: Yea, thats what you said for the last 2,000 years!
God: Just get in there and wait for my signal! Then you go down, rapture the Christians and I'll demolish the place!
Jesus: Dad, I'm still not enthused about the whole rapture thing. I mean, I'm going to be followed by hundreds of thousands of naked people. Have you seen John Hagee naked dad? Its disgusting! By the way, where is mom at?
God: You mean the Virgin Mary? She is somewhere giving Moses a hair cut.
Jesus: Yea, and why do you keep calling her a Virgin. You know your the father.
God: Shhh, not so loud! They think I have no sexual organs or feet for that matter. Have you seen the pictures they draw of me. Hell, look at you Jesus. They think you are white dude!
Liberal AND Proud @ 39:
And they're gonna be PISSED!
I bet these sunday xtians are gonna be shocked...SHOCKED I say, when they see that Jebus ain't blonde with blue eyes!
Of course this is all moot. 'Cause there ain't no god, no jebus, and no heaven and no hell...poor deluded morons.
Face it he's a two faced self serving lying slimebag.
LOL what else is there to say?
Mugsy @ 67:
Why blame Conn Democrats? They didn't put Lieberman back in office. Lieberman lost the Dem primary to Lamont. Independents and Repukes -- who threw their own candidate under the bus -- elected Holy Joe.
Chuck @ 43:
He was PNAC's plan B. If, by some miracle, bush failed to steal the election and Gore got in lieberman would have been president within 2 months.
EMBA30 @ 78:
Ummm could you be a little more subtle in your choice of words please while I'm eating breakfast?
Thanks. It's appreciated.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 80:
I personally believe there is a hell. Ask a dead Republican, they know the place well.
Can't wait to see McSame pick Joe Lieberman (R-ISR) as his running-mate.
deezus @ 61:
They are an all the time thing if you are a sincere Christian or Jew. If you're just a pandering politician, a weekend is all you need.
Dale @ 59:
Alright goddamnit! These holy rollers need to GET THE FUCK OUT of my govt!
They wanna be churchy and shit, become a preacher or whatever. DON'T try to legislate your archaic beliefs on me or anyone. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!