Astounding. and further evidence of how the democratic party has changed in the past 7 years. [rquoter]BREAKING: Kristol: Lieberman to Endorse McCain December 16, 2007 • By William Kristol NEWS FLASH: THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that Sen. Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, will endorse Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for president tomorrow. The two will appear together at a press conference Monday morning in New Hampshire, weather permitting.[/rquoter]
Only regarding national security otherwise Lieberman has been a fairly solid liberal while McCain a fairly solid conservative.
I think this says a lot about the horribly flawed democratic field when a long-time democrat has to look outside his own party to find someone competent to serve as President.
Ron Paul is against US elective wars in oil producing countries. I guess you could claim that this is further evidence that the GOP is changing.
one of the party's 2000 standard bearers is so disillusioned w/ his party he's endorsing a republican.
You obviously have a short memory. Lieberman definitely isn't a "standard bearer" for anyone. He's always been fairly independent, which is how he was re-elected last time after being DEFEATED in a Democratic primary. This isn't a surprise and is barely newsworthy. If he's lucky, this will add 0.2% to McCain's poll numbers.
While it might cause some embarrassment to the DNC this doesn't mean much as Lieberman isn't likely going to bring over many Dems to McCain's camp and Lieberman isn't going to attract Republicans either who are backing the other Repub candidates. The one person who this might hurt a lot is Lieberman. Right now Lieberman is keeping the Dem edge in the Senate by caucusing with the Dems. If the Dems pick up more senate seats and/or a Dem wins the presidency then there is no reason to cater to Lieberman in the next Senate. Its possible the Dem. leadership takes it out Lieberman for crossing party lines to endorse a Repub. and run as an independent and decide to do away with committee chairs.
We Democrats are very ashamed that we lost the favor of Joe Lieberman. Every vote counts and we were counting on his vote to help us win Connecticut -- a true battleground state that we lose every 1,000 years or so if memory serves. And one in which his own party rejected him last year too! We were really counting on his endorsement to bring Republicans into our camp for a 100% popular vote there instead of the usual 70 or so. When we lose Joe Lieberman, it's almost as embarassing as how far the Republican party has fallen. As I understand it they've lost approximately 30% of their registered voters and added only 2. Not 2%, 2 voters. Lieberman and basso. And as I understand it those two were added on account of the Iraq war, which approximately 70% of the country now opposes and wishes was over yesterday. Yes basso, the Democratic Party is in truly terrible shape. We are well under 65% hardcore approval for our agenda and our opponents are closing in on 35% for their own. If we're not careful, we might only win by 10 or 20 points. But, you know what? In a nation so divided, I'll take that.
Short memory? The guy was the Democratic VP nominee in 2000. Here's the question: has Lieberman changed or has the Democratic Party changed?
Hilarious that the repubs here take solace in the fact that an independent rejected by Dems and elected with huge assistance by the GOP is endorsing a Repub candidate that flirted with the idea of becoming John Kerry's running mate. Sounds like Joe and John are a party of two. Besides the Fox shows, where he's Hannity's favorite non-Repub, hard to see where Joe brings McCain any votes.
