Turncoat Lieberman Addresses Fellow Republicans
By SilentPatriot Monday Sep 01, 2008 11:05pm
Why does Joe Lieberman keep referring to himself as a Democrat? Probably because the Republican base is dumb enough to believe him.
UPDATE: John Amato: Lieberman attacked Obama so much that David Gergen said---even though he knows Joe for forty years---he was shocked by that, just shocked and Joe won't bring in many votes. Donna Brazile bored me to death on her response to her former VP pick. She said Joe had a little more energy this time around. And of course Joe just loves Palin even though he probably just met Sarah and virtually has nothing in common with her.You can't trust a word out of his mouth...
God how I loathe and despise this sanctimonious jackass. How dare he call himself a Democrat and presume to LECTURE and harangue us to vote for a rightwing nutcase for president.
And what's the first thing out of Wolf Blitzer's mouth? "Anyone who knows Joe Lieberman, knows that he speaks from the heart." Sure he does --- he's always been a pr*&k, even when he was a Democrat and he is even more of one today. He is a perfect Republican --- hypocritical, bloodthirsty and completely full of shit. Enjoy GOPers, he's all yours.
Full transcript below the fold:
In these prepared remarks, Sen. Joseph Lieberman says he supports McCain because "country matters more than party" and McCain is the person to break through the partisan divide.
Thank you for that warm welcome. I am honored to be here.
We meet tonight in the wake of a terrible storm that has hit the Gulf Coast but that hurts all of us, because we are all members of our larger American family.
At times like this, we set aside all that divides us, and we come together to help our fellow citizens in need.
What matters is certainly not whether we are Democrats or Republicans, but that we are all Americans.
The truth is, it shouldn't take a hurricane to bring us together like this.
Every day, across our country, millions of our fellow citizens are facing huge problems.
They are worried about their homes, their jobs, and their businesses; they are worried about the outrageous cost of gas and of health insurance; and they are worried about the threats from our enemies abroad.
But when they look to Washington, all too often they do not see their leaders coming together to tackle these problems.
Instead they see Democrats and Republicans fighting each other, rather than fighting for the American people.
Our Founding Fathers foresaw the danger of this kind of senseless partisanship. George Washington himself — in his farewell address to our country — warned that the "spirit of party" is "the worst enemy" of our democracy and "enfeebles" our government's ability to do its job.
George Washington was absolutely right. The sad truth is — today we are living through his worst nightmare, in the capital city that bears his name.
And that brings me directly to why I am here tonight. What, after all, is a Democrat like me doing at a Republican convention like this?
The answer is simple.
I'm here to support John McCain because country matters more than party.
I'm here tonight because John McCain is the best choice to bring our country together and lead our country forward.
I'm here because John McCain's whole life testifies to a great truth: being a Democrat or a Republican is important.
But it is not more important than being an American.
Both presidential candidates this year talk about changing the culture of Washington, about breaking through the partisan gridlock and special interests that are poisoning our politics.
But only one of them has actually done it.
Only one leader has shown the courage and the capability to rise above the smallness of our politics to get big things done for our country and our people.
And that leader is John McCain.
John understands that it shouldn't take a natural disaster like Hurricane Gustav to get us to take off our partisan blinders and work together to get things done.
It shouldn't take a natural disaster to teach us that the American people don't care much if you have an "R" or a "D" after your name.
What they care about is, are we solving the problems they are up against every day?
What you can expect from John McCain as president is precisely what he has done this week: which is to put country first. That is the code by which he has lived his entire life, and that is the code he will carry with him into the White House.
I have personally seen John, over and over again, bring people together from both parties to tackle our toughest problems we face —to reform our campaign finance, lobbying and ethics laws, to create the 9/11 Commission and pass its critical national security reforms, and to end the partisan paralysis over judicial confirmations.
My Democratic friends know all about John's record of independence and accomplishment.
Maybe that's why some of them are spending so much time and so much money trying to convince voters that John McCain is someone else.
I'm here, as a Democrat myself, to tell you: Don't be fooled.
God only made one John McCain, and he is his own man.
If John McCain was just another go-along partisan politician, he never would have taken on corrupt Republican lobbyists, or big corporations that were cheating the American people, or powerful colleagues in Congress who were wasting taxpayer money.
But he did.
If John McCain was just another go-along partisan politician, he never would have led the fight to fix our broken immigration system or to do something about global warming.
But he did.
As a matter of fact, if John McCain is just another partisan Republican, then I'm Michael Moore's favorite Democrat.
And I'm not.
Sen. Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But eloquence is no substitute for a record — not in these tough times.
In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.
Contrast that to John McCain's record, or the record of the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who stood up to some of those same Democratic interest groups and worked with Republicans to get important things done like welfare reform, free-trade agreements, and a balanced budget.
Gov. Sarah Palin, like John McCain, is a reformer who has taken on the special interests and reached across party lines. She is a leader we can count on to help John shake up Washington.
That's why the McCain-Palin ticket is the real ticket for change this year.
The Washington bureaucrats and power brokers can't build a pen strong enough to hold these two mavericks.
And together, you can count on John McCain and Sarah Palin to fight for America and to fight for you! And that's what our country needs most right now.
What we need most is not more party unity in America but more national unity.
Especially at a time of war, we need a president we can count on to fight for what's right for our country — not only when it is easy, but when it is hard.
When others were silent, John McCain had the judgment to sound the alarm about the mistakes we were making in Iraq. When others wanted to retreat in defeat from the field of battle, when Barack Obama was voting to cut off funding for our troops on the ground, John McCain had the courage to stand against the tide of public opinion and support the surge, and because of that, today, our troops are at last beginning to come home, not in failure, but in honor.
Before I conclude, I ask the indulgence of those in this hall tonight, as I want to speak directly to my fellow Democrats and independents who are watching.
I know many of you are angry and frustrated by our government and our politics and for good reason.
You may be thinking of voting for John McCain, but you're not sure. Some of you have never voted for a Republican before and in an ordinary election, you probably wouldn't.
But this is no ordinary election, because these are not ordinary times, and John McCain is no ordinary candidate. You may not agree with John McCain on every issue.
But you can always count on him to be straight with you about where he stands, and to stand for what he thinks is right regardless of politics.
As president, you can count on John McCain to be a restless reformer, who will clean up Washington and get our government working again for you.
So tonight, I ask you whether you are an independent, a Reagan Democrat or a Clinton Democrat, or just a Democrat: This year, when you vote for president, vote for the person you believe is best for the country, not for the party you happen to belong to.
Vote for the leader who, since the age of 17, when he raised his hand and took an oath to defend and protect our Constitution, has always put our country first.
So, let's come together to make a great American patriot our next great president.
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Joe Lieberman is not a democrat, he is a Republikud.
DEMOCRATS better get on the airwaves to point out that DEMOCRATS voted him out of offfice!
Poor Sadsack Joe.
Nobody likes Joe but a few far right crackpots.
Hes even tanking at home in the polls.
Greetings from CT. Once again, on behalf of my entire state, I am so sorry.
I'm desperate for video of Joe Lieberman telling Andrea Mitchell that Palin's qualifications don't matter because "let's assume the best." Please tell me somebody got this video.
Andrea Mitchell: Do you feel Sarah Palin is qualified to be commander-in-chief if g-d forbid, something should happen to John McCain?
Joe Lieberman: Well…you know…let’s assume the best (chuckles uncomfortably). John’s in great shape, he’s gonna be the president and let’s assume that nothing bad will happen…why should we? But if it does…yes, she’ll be ready.
"Vote for the leader who, since the age of 17, when he raised his hand and took an oath to defend and protect our Constitution, has always put our country first. "
Implication: Obama has not always put his country first.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG
his hell is going to be HOOOOOOOT!!
oh no mr bill,! liberman thinks snarfing in bushes crotch makes him a cunniligist!
Joe said tonight "country first, ahead of party". He's talking about the country of Israel, but he's wrong there too because his views are those of the hard right Likud party, not of the average Israeli!
He keeps calling himself a Democrat so that he can make it appear as if the party is out of touch with it's own members, so that he can make it appear that we are neither unified nor strong. The fact that Harry Reid doesn't have the balls to kick Lieberman's sorry ass out of the Senate Democratic caucus does a pretty good job of validating both arguments.
The Gooper base will believe anything it is told to beleive. Inability to think for one's self is mandatory for signing that pledge of allegiance to the Republican party. Fuck country. It is ALL about party...and tax funds going to cronies. Nothing else matters.
You can tell Joe Lieberman holds some resentment towards Palin since she got selected instead of him. It was quite telling to hear him talk about Sarah Palin's qualifications after bashing Obama for an alleged lack of experience.
Warm up the Tar and get the bag of Feathers........
He's trying to sound Obamaesque with the unifying message. Cindy Lou did it last night too. Please, gag them.
In Worldwar II , they called turncoat by a different name and the punishment wasn't very nice.
GOPBullshit @ 1:
Actually, he's an Israeli/Mossad masquerading as an American Independent masquerading as an American Republican.
There's actually nothing Democratic about him.
Joe had his Hillary moment!
Didn't Lieberman voluntarily surrender his c sometime ago.
McCain aides confirm - Palin was vetted "late in the process" (WaPo - 09/03/08)
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 2 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain's vice presidential vetting team until last Wednesday in Arizona, the day before McCain asked her to be his running mate, and she did not disclose the fact that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant until that meeting, two knowledgeable McCain officials acknowledged Tuesday.
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The pregnant daughter was the clincher - the ONLY reason McCain picked Sarah Palin - so they could exploit her pregnant 17 year old daughter for political gain, and they could exploit the "Down Syndrome" baby. A Pro-Life 2fer, and the only qualification Sarah Palin needed to get on the ticket.
Shame on John McCain and Sarah Palin for exploiting her children.
Joe delivers Florida. No worries there.
Is that what you call all the hate filled speech coming from the rightwing pundits toward the Democrats?
Americans re: good little turncoats who sacrifice their core beliefs and morals and follow their overlords blindly
That's true, it didn't the last time a hurricane destroyed a city in the U.S. Bush and McCain merrily went about their business as if nothing was wrong.
Problems caused by this administration, the one McCain has voted with 90% of the time.
Give em hell tail gunner Joe!
If you look up the definition of slime bag LIEbermans name comes up.
"What you can expect from John McCain as President is precisely what he has done this week," - Joe Lieberman
LMAO!!!!
The republican party is no longer an American party. It is an infiltration of the right wing of Israeli politics in washington and seeks to undermine US interests for Israel.
Thats why the new name for the republican party is the Republikud party. The actual republican party is the party of the past that only a few politicians are members of today such as Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel. It has only superficial similarities to the republikud party which Joe Lieberman, Bush, McCain, Palin and most other right wing American politicians associate with.
"Down with baby-killers! Oh, this baby-killer likes our guy? Yay baby-killer!"
Miatch @ 7:
Actually when he was at the Naval Academy he did anything BUT put his country first. He put titties and beer first. If he were putting country first he would have done all he could to absorb as much knowledge as was being paid for by the taxpayers so that he could be the best possible Navial Officer. He didn't. He just wanted to have a grand ole time on the taxpayer dime. Sounds like the line of attack for Repugs against welfare recipients.....
Droopy dog isn't a Democrat.
He lost the primary.
MsJoanne @ 12:
Vote Republican---it's easier than thinking!
Joe LIEberman, Sen, I, Israel
Country first my ass.
Schmuck.
StirFry @ 24:
I expect that's true. After all he did go down to the gulf states and pretended to be president.
dennis @ 21:
Hillary Clinton delivers Florida and you better be worried... Obama 50% McSame 42% in today's poll.
Sarah Palin's husband Todd was a registered member of the Alaska
Independence Party until 2002
they are known for secessionist of alaska..they are extreme i guess
remember how they beat up michelle obama
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/todd_palin_was_registe...
Palin can't even keep her slutty, home schooled teenage daughter from getting knocked up, how can we expect her to manage the country if she can't manage her own household.
Poor Bristol Palin. She's actually kinda cute, if it weren't for her pregnancy she could've appeared in Girl's Gone Wild.
Lieberman is a shill for anyone willing to do Israel's bidding. His ONLY concern and his only reason to back McCain has been and remains that he wants as much war in the middle east as he can get. Lieberman is a Jew first, an Israeli second, and an American somewhere around the bottom of the list. This is not anti-semetic...I love all of God's children...but Lieberman is quite blatant in his loyalties...
Joe Joe was a man who thought he was a winner
But he was a fucking ass.
Joe Joe left his party when it was convienient
'Cause he is a fucking ass
Fuck off!
Fuck off!
Get out of our fucking sight!
Rasputin @ 32:
Palin delivers Alaska and their three electoral votes. Powerful stuff.
constituent @ 33:
Xtian militant militias. Joel's Army? Dominionist Fundamentalists? Oy Vey!
If they love him so much why isn't he the VP nominee?
Yep, I checked. Lieberman gave up his c and has officially been a demo rat for several years.
dennis @ 21:
He did it in 2000. To Bush.
GOPBullshit @ 34:
Easy does it she's 17............poor parenting...the republicans love it.
dennis @ 21:
Not so fast, bud. I watched Joe Biden on C-span this afternoon at a town hall meeting in so. Florida. The crowd was fairly large and tehre was an awful lot of applause and nodding going on from LIEbermans' supposed "peeps."
Of course all republikuds will call anyone who dissagrees with them anti-semites because they need that smokescreen to disguise their true foreign policy agenda.
It really isn't even a Jewish driven foreign policy. It's based more on Christian eschatology. These people believe the rapture will occur in their lifetimes and that we must prepare for the coming of christ by ensuring that Israel remains in the hands of the Jews.
For such a righteous cause they would gladly sacrifice the USA.
constituent @ 41:
Did anyone think to check the tapes. Remember Spitzer's friend.
GOPnot4me @ 30:
What you just said!
Sarah Palin's husband was a registered member of extreme group.
i thought it was interesting you don't see or hear the name/word
republican........just switch to NEOCON
this cock sucker needs to be kick out of the democratic party once and for all fuck him
joe has long made the hair on the back of my neck stand up
his pandering to his only hope of retaining power in washington is nothing short of shameful
no ethics
no balls
no no no....
perhaps the republicans are trying to make politics look so sleezy that democrats decide to not vote
PLEASE VOTE
PLEASE GET YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE
Because only an ancient-ass, carbon-dated, fool like LIE-berman would embrace the failed positions of yesterday's generation. They are old, tired, and played-out.
As I've said before: The Republican Party: 19th Century Solutions to 21st Century Problems.
dennis @ 21:
Florida votes the straight hypocrite ticket?
McCain at the Naval Academy, 898 classmates, he graduated 894th. Enough said !!!
at least Spitzer's lady friend remembered that no glove means no love. I'm sure Sarah Palin has never once talked to any of her children about sex, birth control, men, STDs or anything.
Basically, I couldn't stand Lieberman 2000 (though I voted for Gore), and I can't stand him today. He has that smarmy look about him and a disgusting, dirtorted, oversized mouth that reminds me too much of Bill Kristol----EW-w-w-w-w- !!!
Lieberman will be around as long as Americans turn their backs and ignore the election fraud. How else can you explain that his opponents received the EXACT same amount of votes in 2000 and 2006?
The difference between Joe Lieberman and the rest of the Democrats is that Joe Lieberman is more honest about his imperialist intentions.
Functionally speaking, what is the difference between both parties? It seems that no matter which ones we elect, we somehow manage to get the same results.
President Bush I destroyed Iraq's army, President Clinton embargoed Iraq the entire eight years of his presidency, and President Bush (the second) conducted war on them for another eight.
A cynical man might be willing to say that both parties have provided a nice one-two-three punch.
And there's still about twenty trillion dollars worth of oil under the ground in Northern Iraq and the Caspian basin... a figure that has no doubt gone UP since the rise in gas prices, predicated by The Middle East War.
You know, The Constitution isn't just some kind of relic, to be hung in a museum and admired for it's calligraphy. It's the LIVING law. And our "leaders", no matter who we pick, can't seem to adhere to it.
Ron Paul 2008
I would play a game of "count the falsehoods" in his speech, but unfortunately my degree in mathematics is only a Bachelors.
When he talks, he sounds like he is straining to take a shit.
All that comes out of his mouth is foul-smelling Republican diarrhea.
Ned Lamont's take on what LIEbermans speech would be tonight.
"John understands that it shouldn’t take a natural disaster like Hurricane Gustav to get us to take off our partisan blinders and work together to get things done."
But a disaster like Katrina? Why, he's schlepping it up with Shrubby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNyKxZ2Pxg
the obama dude on larry king rebutted lieb pretty good
National Enquirer (Did The Edward's Affair) has reporters up North, Supposedly they found juicy details and dirty secrets.
Babygate
*Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out
*Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy.
*But Bristol, 17, refused to go along with the plan and that sparked a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup.
*The ultra-conservative governor’s announcement about her daughter’s pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news.
*In a preemptive strike Palin released the news, creating political shockwaves.
Also people are so mad about troopergate in Alaska that everyone is coming forth with details and stories about Palin and her scandalous ways.
NE promise more to come!
Since he won't be VP I guess he won't be whispering corrections in John's ear anymore to clear-up his f-ck-ups.
Would it be asking too much if we were to request that he have all of his committee positions stripped?
Am I in the twilight zone? I've listened to a few minutes of Bush speak and a few minutes of this clown speak and all I hear is some fake pre-recorded applause.... or some sort of alteration of audience response. Is this how the whole convention is going?
dennis @ 21:
Don't bet on it.
I'm a Jew from Miami with lots of Jewish friends in Dade and Broward Counties. Most of us HATE Lieberschlepper!!
What an electrifying speaker.
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JohnT @ 63:
No. It might be going to far to have him tared and feathered but those days are over.
Emmanuel Goldstein @ 39:
he's pro-choice that's very important to them. it's the great divider.
jeff @ 48:
Here's your warning... Heck, let's mix up metaphors ... he becomes the next Trojan Joe!
Joe's Senate career is over. Come Nov, he will chair ... uhh, nuttin. In 4 years, CT will be done with him. What will he do next? Yup - can you say lobbyist?
What worries me is that Dems are so spineless, they will let that wolf - Joe the Lobbyist - into their hen house.
Why is he pretending and calling himself something and being entirely a Republican. There is no middle with this man; he is not a Democrat.
It's his basic Jewish guilt (I confess, I have Catholic guilt; working on it) with a dash of inferiority complex (because he really is a nerdy homely sort), and a sprinkle of mother angst (that accounts for his whining voice; I bet it annoys Graham) that causes him to play both sides; all along justifying his tactics by deluding himself as being " so independent that both sides don't like him".
It's Lieberman's slime style, that no one likes. Sincerity from an opportunist isn't rare, it is however elevated to an art form; such pains this man has taken to be the butt head that he is.
Now having said that; I predict that Palin will bow out for the good of the this, the that and the other; and she will be hailed as a patriot and a martyr of the conservative right and the relentless liberal press blah blah blah blah.
McCain will finally get his 2000 bearings (ball bearings that is) and Lieberman will just shine beyond belief, like the crazy loon he is.
Reminds me of a joke; two loons came to the white house; oh wait it wasn't that funny.
I'm surprised you didn't post the best soundbyte of the night, the elderly co-chair of the RNC, Jo Ann Davidson, referring to the upcoming nomination of Sarah PAWLENTY.
I have the video up if you haven't seen it.
http://scootmandubious.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-post.html
I do feel sorry for the ordeal that Bristol Palin must endure for the sake of her mother's ambitions. Unfortunately worse is in store for that poor girl. If you follow x's link to the story about her boyfriend's face page you will find that girl's troubles are just starting. The guy's a classic pinhead jock. I only hope he doesn't check her into the boards too often. I don't know but maybe the real reason the McCain vetting team is in Alaska is to find that girl a more respectable husband.
What makes people think the Dems won't support Israel? Our government has always funded and armed them, to our occasional detriment.
Best soundbyte of the night? The co-chair of the RNC, Jo Ann Davidson, referring to the upcoming nomination of "Sarah PAWLENTY!"
If you haven't seen the video, I have it posted:
http://scootmandubious.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-post.html
John J @ 61:
Can we leave this crap for the Enquirer? We don't need to discus them here, there are millions of better issues to crush the republicans than this crap. I don't want to know about her family problems, they are none of my business.
Man, I'm honestly kind of disgusted by some of the comments on here toward Palin's daughter. If you want to point out the whole "abstinence isn't an answer!" thing then great, I think that's completely valid. Focusing on that stuff is what leads to kids thinking that drinking a capful of freaking Mountain Dew can prevent pregnancy like they were reporting in Florida a while back.
But Girls Gone Wild? Slutty? Shit happens. I'd hate to be some of you if these things ever happen in your families.
People want women to be chosen based upon their professional background and then people here are turning around and judging these people almost entirely on a mistake her daughter made. Give me a break. Concentrate on how she's simply unqualified for this position and perhaps the ridiculousness of her family even being in this situation given her beliefs on absintence, but the rest of these insults? Come on.
This is too much... right after he says "we need more national unity" at 13:50 min, moments later the subliminal message "U.S.A." is suspiciously added to the audience applause... this party does everything it can to wrap itself up in the American flag..... it's dizzying!!!
If at first you don't succed....I have been trying to post my link to the video of the huge "Sarah Pawlenty" gaffe from the RNC co-chair.
One more time:
Sarah Pawlenty
fedup @ 52:
I always wondered if he and the four below him ever get together for lattes at Starbuck's to talk about the good ol' days?
How do you go from being the Democratic VP candidate to whoring yourself to this corrupt bunch of low life Republicans in the span of eight years?
Joe is one sad sack, sorry, piece of shit!
Miatch @ 73:
I disagree. A dysfunctional family in the White House could be a security risk. If McCain dies (even though there is almost no chance of that. People like that live forever), but if he does we will suddenly be confronted with dealing with this and its family.
Putz
JHR @ 79:
I am sorry he is a sck of shit too.
Harriet MiersI mean Sarah Palin is the appetizer to really energize the handlers of the party. Make the things worse before making things appear better. I can see it now. Palin steps down because she is a mother first and needs to put her family first blah blah blah. This energizes the party because they feel they have dodged a bullet and now it is time to win this thing for the Gipper!The GOP did not even vet Sarah Palin. Please Jerry Falwell send me a sign or something to let me know if Hell has frozen over.
Peter G @ 72:
Let's introduce him to a military recruiter--he's 18.
fastfeat @ 84:
Let's keep everyone out of the military that we possibly can.
k1ngothwld @ 76:
Jon Stewart had a great segment tonight about how seriously the Republicans take "unity" - a series of them saying "we'll take off our Republican hats and put on our American hats".
Translation - "we normally don't wear our American hats"
douche...