"Loserman is still sore"....campaigning for McCain all over Florida.

madfloridian

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sun Aug-17-08 05:19 PM
Original message

"Loserman is still sore"....campaigning for McCain all over Florida.

There are few ex-Democrats who anger me more than Joe Lieberman. I remember his little smirky face during 2000. I wanted so badly to win, and every time we saw him speak it was painful.

The next to worst thing he did was to be such a drumbeater for the war in Iraq. The worst is that now he and his committee that decides who looks into what happened...how we went to war on lies...have decided not to "dig around" into what occurred in 2003 pre-invasion.

At the Aspen Institute, Lieberman said not to investigate Iraq and 2003.

"I don't want to see us digging around anymore for who did what in 2003," said Lieberman, stating that continued partisan finger pointing is damaging the public support that is needed to complete the efforts in Iraq and finally bring US troops home.

He also has refused to investigate the failure that was Katrina.

From the Times Picayune:

Lieberman doesn't want 'a witch hunt'

WASHINGTON -- Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman blasted the Bush administration last spring for failing to cooperate in the Senate's investigation of Hurricane Katrina. But now that he is in a key position to press the investigation, he is refusing to do so.

Spokeswoman Leslie Philips said Friday that Lieberman, the new chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, wouldn't issue subpoenas to the White House as he called for less than a year ago.

"The senator believes a more productive use of his time and that of his staff is to make sure legislative fixes are implemented and ensure that a response to a future catastrophe is better," Philips said. "The senator feels the American public has already concluded that the White House response was sorely lacking. Rather than take on the White House and open an old fight, he believes he can be more productive by moving forward."

Now the SOB is touring my state campaigning for John McCain.

From the Palm Beach Post.

'Loserman' is still sore

Get ready to see a lot of Joe Lieberman in Florida from now until November.

The itch that the Democratic Party just can't seem to scratch will be hitting the kosher lunch circuit hard from Orlando to Miami Beach in search of votes for John McCain - and some payback. The "independent Democrat" from Connecticut might be Sen. McCain's best hope of carrying Florida with a hard-line security pitch to Jewish voters who have reservations about Barack Obama.

Sen. Lieberman's clout in South Florida is formidable. Ask Rudy Giuliani. Eight months ago, he thought that his ties to transplanted New Yorkers here would make him competitive for the Republican nomination. Then Sen. Lieberman endorsed Sen. McCain - even extolling him with an Op-Ed in the New York Post - and Mr. Giuliani's candidacy rolled over and died. The party's big donors seemed quite willing to send their checks wherever Sen. Lieberman pointed.

If the McCain campaign is to win Florida, it will need to win over undecided voters who are undecided about Sen. Obama's experience and toughness in foreign policy. That's right up Sen. Lieberman's alley, which at the moment is a very strange and dangerous little cul-de-sac. Whenever you start thinking that his relationship with the Democratic Party can't get any weirder, it gets weirder.

I hear that Nancy Pelosi said we won't need him after the November elections.

I sure as hell hope she is right.