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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:21 PM
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Was Lieberman as VP the Neocons "Backup plan"?
Tinfoilers, please comment.
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corkhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:23 PM
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1. I thought he was the Trilateral Commission's choice
:tinfoilhat:
locked and loaded sir.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:23 PM
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:24 PM
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3. prolly has a whole spy-recording system in that combover
I SWEAR he looks like Lynne Cheney from the back.
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Totally Committed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:26 PM
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4. I've come to think so lately...
even moreso since he started his "I'm gonna run as an Independent if you don't elect me in the Primary" bullsh*t. Yeah... I think he was, and when he goes over to the Republican Party, he'll just be going back where he belongs.

TC
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:26 PM
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5. In What Way, Ma'am?
You really give nothing that can be commented on....
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:27 PM
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7. Well, golly, Sir! He is, after all, a Republican!
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:31 PM
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8. Not Actually, Ma'am
He is, and remains, a Democrat. He was selected by the Party, at the behest of its nominee for President, Vice President Gore, as its candidate for Vice-President, in 2000.

Your query, however, provides nothing on which sensible comment can be made. If his nimination is the "back-up" for some plan, what is that plan, and what would activate the "back-up" you suggest Sen. Lieberman represents?
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:43 PM
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13. If my query "provides nothing on which a sensible comment can be made"
what are you wasting your time here, for?
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The Stranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:51 PM
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15. Leibercon VP would have supported U.S in Iraq, launching the War on (for
more) Terror, torture flights, obliteration of civil liberties, corruption, etc. -- these are all things this former Democrat supports.
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 05:10 PM
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22. And Yet, Sir
As Vice President, he would have had no power to do any of things. Thus, it hardly matters what he might have supported.
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 05:00 PM
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18. There Is No Accounting, Ma'am
For whimsey, taste, or folly....
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 05:06 PM
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19. Sometimes I think you're Vincent Price. Ya sure sound like him!
in a good way
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 05:08 PM
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21. Mr. Price Is Dead, Ma'am
"I've been dead for years now, but I just had to come back to offer you this amazing record package!"
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 05:21 PM
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24. lol his voice lives on.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:26 PM
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6. Oh, sure. That's why he was picked by Al Gore.
:eyes:
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SoFlaJet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:41 PM
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12. he lost me
that day in 98 when I heard him cast an"aye" for censuring Clinton-friggin holier-than-thou A-hole.THAT could have been Gore's biggest blunder yet,and I'll bet ya he regrets it to this day.Then,Randi Rhodes was trying to tell him on election day 2000 (you know the day of the coup)live on the radio that there were a lot of problems with dems trying to vote down here and he pretty much brushed it off as poppycock.I hope he loses...
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:58 PM
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17. He wasn't. Gore was pressured into accepting him by the DLC.
NT!
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 05:07 PM
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20. As A Matter Of Curiousity, Sir
How does one pressure a candidate for President standing as heir apparent and nominated by acclaim into doing anything he does not want to do?

If Vice President Gore had wanted another person for a running mate, all he ould have had to do was say the name, and that person would have had the nod.
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 05:36 PM
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25. From what I recall, Kerry was up for it.
I'll have to do some digging to back up my statement, though it might take some time (I'm at work, typing during breaks).
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:32 PM
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9. Rumour. Why not talk about what is really going on..which is Lieberman's
Edited on Fri Jun-16-06 04:34 PM by applegrove
different fears..than that of the American public. Is it American to be so pro-israel that you cannot think policy without including that.. who you are.. in that?

I don't think so. He may loose. But he still is very, very American. And very, very democrat. Just a Dem Hawk. As vulnerable to being wedged by the GOP as Kerry was. For who he is.

Do you go after him for the side of the wedge he was on.. as he was being himself? Or do you like politicians who vote who they are? And accept the range within the Dem party.

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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:35 PM
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10. He certainly is fighting much harder and dirtier
against Lamont than he ever did against Bush and Cheney. He didn't object to losing that election nearly as much as he seems to object to the prospect of losing to Lamont.

I actually shudder when I think that he might have been essentially next in line for the presidency. I still can't fathom why Gore thought that he was a good choice for running mate.
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:41 PM
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11. That is a very scary thought
If Gore were to have suffered a horrible accident, then LIEberman would have been POTUS. :scared:

I had never considered that before.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:45 PM
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 04:57 PM
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16. No information to even suggest that, to me.
But hey, considering the founders of far right think tanks financially support Lieberman's beloved DLC (yes, an inconvient fact DLCers always ignore), I wouldn't be surprised to someday learn that was true.
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Rocknrule Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 05:11 PM
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23. Part of me still believes Lieberman was a GOP mole
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