Shame on dem leadership for elevating him all those years..

fu*ktard as his running mate.

I'm sure he thought he NEEDED a Jewish guy like Joe-Mentum to win Florida, but Joe sold him out there when it mattered..

1) Even without a Jew on the ticket, Democrats would have gotten over 75% of the Jewish vote AND they always have a very high rate of voting. In 2000, it likely would have been more so as GHWB was NOT liked by the minority of Jews voting because of Israel.

2) There were some stories that he was picked because being the first Jew on a ticket would have created some excitement for a candidate that the media designated as "boring".

3) The far more common reason given was that Joe Lieberman, one of the first Democrats to blast Clinton about Monica was the media designated "anti- Clinton". (The media was far happier with JL than one likely alternative - who likely would have led to a Gore victory - John Kerry. Consider Gore would have won with NH which he lost narrowly and where JK was liked and Kerry debating Cheney would NOT have ended with the man unwilling to condemn apartheid and against free lunches for poor school kids looking like a kindly grandfather. Kerry has mentioned with pride very often that Teresa marched against apartheid in South Africa and has spoken like the social justice Catholic he is on caring for the poor. )

Gore seemed to choose Lieberman to get a clean start and separate himself from Clinton's immorality. Yet, his own Eagle scout, married to his high school sweetheart with 4 lovely children should - by itself - have done that without the need to say a word.

People seem to keep forgetting that, despite it being the reason for this site's existence.

or do the words "Conservative Think Tank" seem like an oxymoron?

"Me conservative. Me think "tank"....Oooooooooh shiny!"

And this makes me feel better after hearing how Lieberman shows his true roots for the 1000th time/ Got one for WWII tanks?

My beloved Shermans! So many, many variants...

how many different kinds of tanks there were...guess I never really studied them that much. Everything I know about WWII I learned from Hogan's Heroes. lol.

But one of those tanks looks suspiciously like an airplane. Who knew they had stealth technology back then!?

and I've bought several other books, one of which is the most famous for being almost nothing but variants of the M4 Sherman.

I've bought about 15 Sherman Vs and Fireflies to field my army with.

.....I laughed out loud at that one. I REALLY did.
Having a tough day with my 11 year old girl.
Thanks for the laugh I needed that-even though it was the very definition of corny!

you obviously have the best of both

The Repub was way worse (By 2001 Mayor Giordano from Waterbury went to jail, as a sex offender). And I guess I voted for him again as I was not voting for Bush or for Nader to help Bush win. I was not voting in primaries back then as I was only in my early 20's. I really wish I had. By 2006, I voted for Lamont in the primary and then in the general election. Unfortunately, lots of people in CT had loyalty to Lieberman. I apologize for that idiot. Ashamed he is from my state and wish he would just leave.

Lieberman knows no bounds. And when my kids bust on me for doing it I can honestly say "How did I know the best candidate the Republicans had was a pedophile?"

When Gore needed Lieberman to go on the attack during the debates and show America what a monster Dick Cheney really was, Joe played nice nice, trying to show the world how presidential joe was. Joe always thinking about Joe, fuck him.

Many of them were very high-profile posters of the time..

Droopy dog is just a barrel of laughs.

go to keep their mouths shut.

Do Democrats even HAVE think tanks? It seems like most of them are Republican-owned or owned by the rich to control our educational system, health care, etc.

John Kyl, too? Hmmmm!

Because in the media lingo, only conservatives can think about stuff.

As he admitted when called out for saying that Planned Parenthood spent 90% of its money on abortion - when the true number was 3%!

Just who you want in a think tank!

Lieberman 2006: I Will Help Obama "Reach to the Stars"
http://crooksandliars.com/2008/08/31/lieberman-2006-i-will-help-obama-reach-to-the-stars

"As far as I'm concerned (Barack Obama) is a 'Baruch,' which means a blessing. He is a blessing to the United States Senate, to America, and to our shared hopes for better, safer tomorrows for all our families. The gifts that God has given to Barack Obama are as enormous as his future is unlimited. As his mentor, as his colleague, as his friend, I look forward to helping him reach to the stars and realize not just the dreams he has for himself, but the dreams we all have for him and our blessed country."

Smiling that simpering grin of his while he stabs you in the back.

the Mill quote:

"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it."

Were it not for Nader, Gore would have been President in 2000 and 2004, NAFTA would have been repealed, the Third-Way would have been pointed toward the highway, and Lieberman would have been elected POTUS in 2008 and 2012.

Oh, and all the left-wing republicans (Centerists) would have gotton the pink-pony they keep whining about.

and picked a better running mate

Gore won Florida.

The US Supreme W. Court gave us the chimp, not Nader.

They stopped the vote counting and appointed the chimp.

Some conservative spokesrat claims, "We can't work with this moron - he's even worse than a Teabagger!!!"

Joe, make an aliyah to Israel and pledge your undying love there and don't ever come back to the States.

for some un-named ex-Senator to suffer a broken nose.

TANJ it just burns me up to see evil get rewarded. The piece of slime is 71 years old and has a Senator's pension. He doesn't need the money and yet he still gets a good paying job for the evil empire. I mean, for Hashem's sake can't you just enjoy your wealth and retirement, do you HAVE to continue to advance the cause of evil? Is that part of your contract with Satan or something?

Fuck, I need to hit something now.

this is the nice way to say; he hopes to get tons of foreign bribe money to lobby his congress friends to vote for policies that undermine average Americans that can't afford to pay for his "thinking"....

Al Gore's biggest mistake was picking that loser as his running mate.

it says see Joe Lieberman .

he will be in his element with those tape worms even though he professes to be Jewish and they secretly hate his wimpy little punim .

I could swear he was on that team ...

He was at best a lukewarm Democrat. Given his Jewish background I would have expected him to understand that the Republicans only want those in the Jewish community for two things (1) their money and (2) their allegiance to Israel. Any other values and policies such as caring for the sick, elderly or poor were hogwash as far as he was concerned.

Good riddance Joe. I hope the door slaps you on the back on your way out. I wish you well in your newfound life as a shill for the forces of evil.

That's the very nicest thing I could think to say about Liarman.

Yeah, like a project with Kyl is non-partisan - if anyone believes that, come see me re some valuable swamp land here in beautiful FL.

Bilge water seeking its own level.

(I mean, "defeated.&quot

Kyl at a think tank. I laughed until I "ROkered" my pants. And Joe Whinyman will fit right inwith the right wing douches.

So let's not act like Lieberman was some kind of anomaly. His policies are not too different from Obama's.

is if he doesn't also end up in a high-paying job at a bank or insurance company. He'll get rich from his AEI sinecure, but not filthy rich like he would from a bank.

or are they just a sort of welfare/slush fund as a "thank you" for conservatives to avoid the appearance of outright bribery?

The most he can hope for is a conservative drunk tank.

....that would always defend Joey Lies like a Batman signal went up as soon as anything bad about him was spoken? I'm pretty sure he got banned/left in 2007 or so....

I'm sure he's speechless today....

the creator of Bob Boudelang. He was always calling us idiots for not worshipping Lie-berman. He finally got so obnoxious he was banned.

Good callback. I'm sure he's shocked.....shocked! at this turn of events!

That's the only good thing I can say about that asswipe.

Doesn't he have grand-kids, for Pete's sake? Reminds me of Zell Miller from GA. Honestly, I think that was one of Gore's biggest errors... choosing JL for Vice Pres running mate. As soon as Al chose him, I said to myself... "Oh, shit!"

Glad I didn't vote for Joe as VP.

What a couple of bookends you and Zell Miller made.

For those who do not recall, Zell was from Georgia, southern version of the pair.

Zell Miller (D) Georgia Support for Republicans

Throughout Zell Miller's career as a U.S. Senator he showed increasing support for Republicans and increasing criticism of Democrats, leading some[who?] to question whether his fellow Democrats in the Senate had given him a lukewarm reception. However, given his beginnings as a conservative southern Democrat, it is likely he found his views drastically different from the more liberal ideology of the national party.[citation needed]

Although nominally a member of the Democratic Party, Miller has endorsed Republicans since at least 2004. He backed Republican President George W. Bush over Democratic nominee John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election and since 2003 has frequently criticized the Democratic Party, and has publicly supported several Republican candidates. In 2006, Miller did voice-overs (narrations) for Republican candidate commercials in Georgia state elections (George "Sonny" Perdue and Ralph Reed).
He declared early in 2008 that he would not support either Senator Barack Obama or Senator Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. He supported Senator John McCain instead. After Obama was elected President and Democrats increased their majorities in the House and Senate, he endorsed Republican Saxby Chambliss in the Senate run-off against Democrat Jim Martin and criticized Obama over "spreading the wealth".[24]
In 2012, Miller served as the national co-chair to the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.[25] The same year, Miller endorsed Doug Collins, the Republican candidate in the 9th District of Georgia congressional race.[22]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zell_Miller

I wonder what he'll be think-tanking about while at the AEI?



Iran maybe?

Guess I thought wrongly.

Figures.

at least it isn't the Heritage Foundation.

eom

Wolf

I always knew that asshat was a PNACer.

Bite me.

not

Didn't this happen years ago?

leave ... go be with your people.

He is a greedy little social climber that will do well with the conservatives. They all think alike. No soul.

Did anyone really think he was a "Democrat", or even an "independent"? Get serious. This saucy, slime-ball had his lips locked on W's behind in 2000 and 2004. He's done what Charlie Crist did in FL, except the opposite. Let him go already. What a sleaze ball.