Gore refuses to back Lieberman: devisive or decisive?

Gore has refused to back Joe Lieberman. Given the frequent calls here to back any Democrat and howls whenever someone points out the conflicted loyalties (at best) of candidates and pols aligned with the corporate sponsored DLC, I'd be curious to see what people think of this.

constantly telling him via the news media to "give it up", I figure Joe just got payback.

consultant said he was a good idea?

I have a Jewish friend who said he liked the idea of a Jew on the ticket, but even he wished it wasn't Joe.

believe he's the person he represented himself to be when he was asked to run with him.

primary?

You don't like Gore? Ok but I don't see how his comments on the Connecticut primary really have much to do with that.

He also didn't endorse Joe in 2004.

Gore is not endorsing "any Democrat".

There IS another Dem, Lamont, in the primary!

Do you see now how your OP question is off the mark?

can't make everybody happy though.

had already won the primary and Gore didn't endorse him against the Repub, you see?

"Joe is a corrupt, corporate owned sack of shit--but since he calls himself a Democrat, his mere presence could help us gain the majority, and we can indict and replace him later."

How would that be?

in the presidential primaries.

probably have already gotten strong impressions of the two candidates and know which of the two draws them the most.

Gore's refusal to endorse his old running mate obviously doesn't help Joe any, but Joe's affiliation with Bush is what may swamp him in the end.

Lamont is offering a deeper shade of blue than the incumbent.

(edit because I can't type 5 words without an errot)

saying his non-endorsement of Lieberman would have minimal impact.

I woke up this morning hoping he proves me wrong.

I'm one of those summer terrorists Lieberman's advisors are so worried about, but honestly, I just like Lamont more than I oppose Lieberman. Lamont is likeable in a different way and is truer to my political inclinations.

I grew uneasy with Lieberman a few years before Gore chose him to be his veep nominee, when Joe began to moralize about Hollywood films. If Hollywood sometimes makes salacious films Joe forgets that people coast to coast line up at theaters each weekend to plunk down cash to see them.

I didn't buy Joe's condemnation of that, feeling that people can make up their own minds if they want to see a film or not.

Anyway, Lamont would be a bluer vote in the Senate, and one vote harder for Bush and Cheney to advance their agenda.

Democrats PR campaign to look culturally conservative.

lyrics.

And of all people, John Denver was one of the harshest critics of censorship. He really surprised a lot of people in those hearings.

at Grandma's house....

ass.

Gads that just chaps my butt.

Doesn't the Lieberman camp understand that Joe and Al just don't stand for the same things any more?

Somebody call somebody's mother a 'ho? What the hell is going on with all these idiotic threads tonight?

Do something constructive, read all these charts and interviews, and spread this link around.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/

He's not backing nor deriding of any potential Dem candidates. Al's a class act.

class act...

I'm glad to see Lieberman getting slapped around by the voters of his state and state party. He needs to go. I'm very encourages by Lamont's poll numbers in 3-way match ups. It doesn't look like anything is going to throw this election to the Republicans. If Lieberman runs as an independent, the race will still be between him and Lamont.

But calling him "Republican light" is just way way off and frankly makes DUers sound intolerant of dissent w/in the party. If we don't like him, support his opponent. But the name calling is petty and divisive. Gore handled this perfectly. You see who the state party supports and then you support that candidate. End of story. I hope the good ol' boys on the DCCC do the same, or there'll be hell to pay. But the last thing we need to do on the eve of an electoral realignment is to drive wedges within the party.

You can't win an election by default.

If voters are disgusted with GOP but Dems give no clear alternative, people will just stay home on election day and pull the covers over their head.

Obviously, after primaries, it would be counter-productive to spend a lot of time kicking this shitbag who will eventually move on to being a lobbyist anyway, but we need to prod the Democrats to stand up for our core values so they don't look like the cowards and opportunists so many have been the last six years.

Good for Al Gore!

supporting them. Worst decision of Gore's lifetime was putting him on the ticket. He cost us the election ...... and then went on to rub salt in our wounds over and over and over ...