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(WOW:) Lieberman Leaves GOP Door Open (!!!)
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-lieberman1113.artnov13,0,6768878.story?coll=hc-headlines-politics-state ^ | Hortford Courant.com

Posted on 11/13/2006 8:51:39 AM PST by screw boll

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To: Bahbah
He was re-elected to the Senate by his dem base. NO WAY will he switch.

However, he also realizes the DNC didn't support him in the primary as they should have and he's mad as hell at all of 'em. And he should be!!! He's now an independent and can pretty much do what he wants to...LOL

21 posted on 11/13/2006 8:59:41 AM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: GitmoSailor
Rovember?


22 posted on 11/13/2006 9:00:28 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Bahbah

He will use this threat to get what he wants and they will give it to him. There will be no switch.
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Yes, they will DO ANYTHING to keep power. You can bet your life on it.


23 posted on 11/13/2006 9:01:10 AM PST by EagleUSA (T)
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To: screw boll

Ra.


24 posted on 11/13/2006 9:01:20 AM PST by dr_who
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To: screw boll

Join, Joe...Feel the power of the Dark Side...


25 posted on 11/13/2006 9:01:40 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: rodeodrive3

I don't know if he will switch to the Repubs, but when I saw Michael Medved speak in August here in Denver, he said a little bird (Lanny Davis) told him that Joe Lieberman was really ticked off at his "friends" in the Senate that backstabbed him. Medved put it "he is hurt and angry".


26 posted on 11/13/2006 9:01:55 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: Bahbah

Bingo! We have a winner!

I guess I'd like to see him get Armed Services. Probably pretty unlikely.


27 posted on 11/13/2006 9:02:11 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Pete
I think this is all playing for position

He's now the swing vote in the Senate. Far from hurting him, the moonbats made him far stronger - and a blocking vote against Dem appeasement.

28 posted on 11/13/2006 9:02:48 AM PST by dirtboy (John Kerry - the world's only re-usable political suicide bomber.)
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To: screw boll

i think we just need to let this go and see how it plays out. much to soon to see anything, and if its even that huge a deal. but hey, itd a great laugh!


29 posted on 11/13/2006 9:02:49 AM PST by NMH8
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To: screw boll

On the most important issue of the day -- the War on Terror -- Lieberman understands what we're facing. Even if he never switches, keeping the door open will put enormous pressure on the Dhimmis to be reasonable.


30 posted on 11/13/2006 9:02:56 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: screw boll

You know, if a miracle were to occur and Lieberman did switch, I would bet everything that the weak-spined Republicans would offer to share power just as they did before.


31 posted on 11/13/2006 9:03:06 AM PST by OldPossum
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To: Bahbah

From which party? He'll receive offers from both parties and go with whichever one suits him best.

He should remember that Chafee received much better treatment from the GOP than he received from the dems.


32 posted on 11/13/2006 9:03:07 AM PST by bobjam
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To: screw boll

I don't see it happening. We won't get control of the Senate as far as Committee chairs, etc. The best thing we can expect is his support for continuing funding of the war, IMO.


33 posted on 11/13/2006 9:03:32 AM PST by dinoparty
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To: screw boll
There are two separate issues here...

1) Under no reasonable circumstance will wee see Joe Lieberman join the Republican party

2) However, caucusing with the Republicans in the Senate for organizational purposes isn't completely out of the question. With Lieberman joining the Republicans for organizational votes, it's a 50-50 Senate, with Cheney breaking ties (and no Chaffee to worry about in terms of ship-jumping).

Honestly, it looks like Joe is shopping for the best offer... this type of equivocation is designed to elicit better offers from the 'rats and to let the GOP know that he's still "for sale".

34 posted on 11/13/2006 9:04:29 AM PST by kevkrom (John F'n Kerry's 'apology': "I'm sorry you were too stupid to realize I wasn't calling you stupid.")
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To: bmwcyle

WE NEED a 50/50 split Senate with Cheney being the tie breaking vote!

LLS


35 posted on 11/13/2006 9:07:12 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: Echo Talon
Not so fast............there is a way the Republicans can offer him the same things. If they do that, he very well might sway.
36 posted on 11/13/2006 9:07:27 AM PST by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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To: screw boll
Lieberman as a Republican= RINO

He backs Bush on the war, other than that, he is a slime Liberal. I don't want him in our party. (except, to make the Democrats pissed)

37 posted on 11/13/2006 9:07:41 AM PST by fish hawk
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To: screw boll
Nonsense. Holy Joe isn't going anywhere.
39 posted on 11/13/2006 9:08:09 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: WashingtonSource
I keep hearing how tough Joe is against terrorism, so could you please explain his NAY vote against the House Border Security Bill????

Hillry voted for that bill, even after she claimed the Republicans would make Jesus illegal if they could, right after they passed it. See NO MSM attention upon that Border Security Bill, and it was the peoples House that got turn over to these liberals and here everybody keeps singing the empty praises for Joe. UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Joe may 'talk the talk' but his votes demonstrate otherwise.
40 posted on 11/13/2006 9:08:18 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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