Comments on: Liberated Lieberman, Liberating Leadership http://donklephant.com/2006/11/08/liberated-lieberman-liberating-leadership/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:41:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ChrisO http://donklephant.com/2006/11/08/liberated-lieberman-liberating-leadership/comment-page-1/#comment-103246 ChrisO Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:26:38 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=2907#comment-103246 Please, spare me. Holy Joe decided to put principal over party right about the time he lost the Democratic primary. Comments like this completely ignore the fact that he tried hard to be the Democratic nominee. I'm not a fan of Lieberman's, but I also don't have the irrational hatred some blog commenters seem to have. I think he has shown himself to be more interested in Joe than anything else. He has already stated that he will caucus with the Dems because he doesn't want to lose 18 years of seniority. Funny, I thought it was because he's the conscience of the Senate. Face it, he's a veteran, incumbent politician who has been winning statewide races for two decades, and he ran against a guy entering his first political race. Losing the primary was definitely a blow, but let's not portray him as some plucky underdog who came out of nowhere. What should really demoralize Republicans is that the victory of an independent who will caucus with the Democrats is all they have to point to as a bright spot in the election. It's almost sad to see Republicans trying to claim he's one of them. Please, spare me. Holy Joe decided to put principal over party right about the time he lost the Democratic primary. Comments like this completely ignore the fact that he tried hard to be the Democratic nominee. I’m not a fan of Lieberman’s, but I also don’t have the irrational hatred some blog commenters seem to have. I think he has shown himself to be more interested in Joe than anything else. He has already stated that he will caucus with the Dems because he doesn’t want to lose 18 years of seniority. Funny, I thought it was because he’s the conscience of the Senate.

Face it, he’s a veteran, incumbent politician who has been winning statewide races for two decades, and he ran against a guy entering his first political race. Losing the primary was definitely a blow, but let’s not portray him as some plucky underdog who came out of nowhere.

What should really demoralize Republicans is that the victory of an independent who will caucus with the Democrats is all they have to point to as a bright spot in the election. It’s almost sad to see Republicans trying to claim he’s one of them.

]]> By: sleipner http://donklephant.com/2006/11/08/liberated-lieberman-liberating-leadership/comment-page-1/#comment-102822 sleipner Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:52:19 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=2907#comment-102822 How much you want to bet that if the Republicans had won the Senate, Lieberman would have suddenly changed to Republican? How much you want to bet that if the Republicans had won the Senate, Lieberman would have suddenly changed to Republican?

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