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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMorning Joke repeats the Lieberman "They think he'd be appealing to Democrats" meme
It's why he's the front runner...because Democrats like him.
Cha
(298,074 posts)do you have to be to think that?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)They want Comey in, they want Lieberman out... it's as if the Democrats put principles above partisan politics!!!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I mean, even the most sensible woodchuck-y sensible woodchucks in sensible woodchuckery land can't stand that dude.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Fox News made it sound as if the western world would collapse if Joe Lieberman were to lose his Senate-seat.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)But Joe was a craptastic choice for the ticket.
And it's worth remembering that his main qualification was his sour-faced Senate moralizing about wayward Clenistic behavior. If this was a Democrat getting a blowjob from a consenting adult, I would have full confidence in his leading the FBI to getting to the bottom of it.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)dem4decades
(11,322 posts)Was her escort. There was a story on how Lieberman 's law firm represented Trump. I hate Lieberman and consider him to be one of th reasons Bush beat Gore.
Demsrule86
(68,825 posts)You would think the GOP would know better than to put cronies in important jobs after Katrina...Brownie was not doing a good job. And we are talking national security here.
TheBlackAdder
(28,261 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,043 posts)Yeah "Democrats" "like(d) him" so much that they supported a different Democratic candidate in CT, resulting in his primary loss, and eventual run in the general as an "independent".
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I am hearing this meme on TV. He was NOT a Democrat. He was a lifelong moderate Republican, who, when having trouble with his party, and when Gore was looking to appeal to a broader audience, ran on the ticket with Gore as a Democrat. Americans obviously didn't go for that. Then Lieberman became an Independent.
But make no mistake, Lieberman is a REPUBLICAN at heart, though a moderate one. And a weak individual who would be grateful just to become relevant again. And has NO experience in running or spearheading investigations or an intelligence agency.
The FBI would become dysfunctional under someone like Lieberman. The rank and file would not accept someone as inexperience and unqualified as Lieberman, and Lieberman would make all the novice mistakes you'd expect (a la Trump play acting like a President while giving top coded secrets to our enemies).
Tom Rinaldo
(22,919 posts)Lieberman LOST the Democratic primary so he started his own "party" to get onto the ballot. Republicans tacitly supported him in the CT general election by putting no resources behind their own official candidate.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)eShirl
(18,509 posts)Tom Rinaldo
(22,919 posts)And he has zero background in law enforcement. Right. Democrats just love how he spoke at the Republican convention in 2008. The Democratic Party has shifted left since then - at least the base has. Any Democratic Senator who supports him will face pitch forks at home. Way to go Donald.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)They thought we would be happy about the Comey firing too And they call Democrats out of touch.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)I also consider him the main reason W ascended to his terms of terror.
Democrats who like this guy should get to steppin'.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)Lieberman is hideous to most Dems I know.