Posted on 08/15/2006 8:40:12 AM PDT by supa consrvative
Day 1: Repeal the Bush restrictions on stem cell research. (Jan 2004)
Keep abortion safe, rare and legal; with 24-week viability. (Dec 2003)
FDA’s RU-486 decision stands; it’s made properly by experts. (Oct 2000)
Leave abortion decision to a woman, her doctor, and her god. (Oct 2000)
Rejected partial-birth ban since it ignored maternal health. (Oct 2000)
Supports abortion rights within his faith, not despite it. (Sep 2000)
Parental consent with judicial override; Gore agrees. (Aug 2000)
Supported parental notification for minors; but pro-choice. (Aug 2000)
Voted YES on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
Voted NO on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 2004)
Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions except for maternal life. (Mar 2003)
Voted NO on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
Voted NO on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record. (Dec 2003)
Expand embryonic stem cell research. (Jun 2004)
From a realistic perspective will this happen?
If it doesn't, what will you do?
Personally, I like Loserman, but his politics sucks - excpet for supporting Bush on the war on terror - and that so critical right now that I woudl vote for him unless I was sure the Repub had a good chance of getting in, and I knew the Repub wouldn't turn out to be a Chuckie Hegel or John McCain.
"How can old Joe be a conservative Jew and still vote in favor of abortion?"
The same way Kennedy, Kerry and Rudy favor abortion and have been divorced and still consider themselves Catholic.
If the grassroots GOP can get Schlesinger to drop out it will -- Orchulli is itching to run, and has said so publicly.
Personally, I like Loserman, but his politics sucks
That's not much of a reason for voting for a guy. I'm sure Ted Kennedy is a great raconteur, but we need every vote we can get in the Senate. This is the only chance we'll have to pick up a seat in Connecticut for the forseeable future. Orchulli will be way to the right of Lieberman, and he's very well-known. In a two-way race, he'd have no chance, but with the Dem vote split, now's our chance.
"I'm sure Ted Kennedy is a great raconteur"
I remember reading somewhere that Ted Kennedy is liar, an acoholic, a womanizer, at the least guilty of manslaughter and very possibly a rapist.
Losermann is at least personally unsullied.
But a good Republican beats a so-so Dem anyday IF HE CAN GET ELECTED.
Connecticut is 33% Democrat, 22% Republican and 44% Independent. A Republican like Orchulli will likely only have to win the Republican vote plus 1/4 of Independents to win. Given popular RINO Gov Jodi Rell at the top of the ticket, turning out Republicans and Republican-leaning independents shouldn't be hard. And of course, beating 33% would be great, but isn't necessary.
Bear in mind that Lieberman was elected in 1988 over Weicker when Bill Buckley, Tom Scott and other principled conservatives decided it was time for Weicker to go. Lieberman's promise to the conservatives (which he has kept) was to be sound on foreign policy and defense. Weicker had gone scuba diving with Castro that year and had the film shown on Connecticut newscasts such as Eyewitless News. Lieberman copied the tapes, made a commercial showing the corpulent Weicker in swim trunks with Fidel and then showed wife Hadassah's parents' concentration camp tattoos, whereupon Joe said: In my family, we understand the evil of totalitarianism. If I am your Senator, I won't be scuba diving with or supporting anything resembling Castro.
A choice between the Devil or his helper.
Actually, I consider myself a conservative and I've no moral quandary.
Country trumps ideology.
I'm supporting Leiberman. He's earned it on the important issue.
I knew Buckley formed a group to toss Weicker, I didn't know Leiberman made that promise. Interesting.
Orchulli is a businessman and the GOP candidate for senate against Dodd in '04. He ran an acceptable campaign against a popular incumbent -- O'Connor and McKinney would definitely be stronger candidates, but neither has the same ability to self-fund that Orchulli has. Why settle for Lieberman when we can win this? Do we have enough seats in the Senate that we can afford to burn them?
Hello, democrat newbie. Trying to paint Joe as evil so some Conn Republicans won't vote for him to keep Lament out of the Senate? Bwahahahahaha Democrats are so transparently elitist.
You are incorrect regarding Judaism and the fetus. But would you like for me to post data from aish.com for your edification? Or would you like to go and read the truth for your own edification?
Joe Lieberman has an ACU rating of 8. Hillary Clinton has a 12. If you feel comfortable voting for a man well to the left of Hillary Clinton, go ahead and vote for Lieberman. But I think it makes more sense to take advantage of divided Dims by finding a viable Republican candidate (not Schlesinger!).
MHG - could you post a link to the aish.com info? I'd like to read it myself. Thanks!
Meaning, of course, that he'll dance with the one that brought him, which will be conservatives and moderates. A lot of these votes on the margins will start going the other way (like votes on abortion notification,vouchers for DC, etc)
Too late for that, friend. .Better Lieberman than Lamont, and possibly even Shleshinger, given his history.. (Shleshinger aint giving up his 15 minutes of fame just because you want him to)
He is not a conservative Jew, not much of a human being either. Anyone should be able to tell that abortion is murder! Children are precious blessings, do not get pregnant if you can not love them.
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