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HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut Democrats are calling on Sen. Joe Lieberman to apologize to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for his comments criticizing them during the campaign. . . . It chastises the longtime Democrat, who won re-election in 2006 as an independent, for speaking at the Republican National Convention on behalf of Sen. John McCain.

Senator Lieberman, thank you for your tireless effort to help Senator John McCain in his campaign for the presidency. No elected official did more for Senator McCain than you, and probably, nobody outside his family loves him more than you do. It was clear during the campaign, just as it was clear eight years ago when you couldn't stomach the Gore team trying to trash the military votes in Florida, that you believe in putting what's best for the country above what may be best for the democrats or even for you.Joe's speech at the RNC convention Now that Harry...

Tom Brokaw: talk show host or DNC enforcer? Barack Obama and Harry Reid were willing to let bygones be bygones, letting Joe Lieberman keep his Homeland Security Committee chairmanship. But Lieberman's professed "regret" for statements he made in the course of supporting John McCain for president wasn't good enough for Brokaw. Interviewing Lieberman on Meet The Press today, Brokaw pointedly observed that he hadn't heard the word "apology" for the senator's lèse majesté. Brokaw broached the subject by asserting Lieberman needed to be held "accountable."

Sen. Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign. The Connecticut independent will lose a panel post on the Environment and Public Works panel as punishment for criticizing Obama this fall.Lieberman's colleagues in the Democratic caucus voted 42-13 Tuesday to approve a resolution condemning statements made by Lieberman during the campaign but allowing him to keep the Homeland Security Committee gavel.Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he had been very angry by Lieberman's actions but that "we're looking forward, we're not...

Bayh warned that stripping Lieberman of his chairmanship position on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee could prompt the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential nominee to side with the GOP on close votes next Congress or resign his Senate seat. If he resigns, Connecticut's Republican Gov. Jodi Rell would replace Lieberman with a temporary two-year appointment, likely a GOP senator.

WASHINGTON – President-elect Obama has told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid he's not interested in seeing Democrats oust Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman from their ranks over his endorsement of Republican John McCain. Obama told Reid in a phone conversation last week that expelling Lieberman from the Democratic caucus would hurt the message of bipartisanship and unity that he wants for his new administration, a Senate Democratic aide said Tuesday. This aide spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions were confidential. The caucus is the meeting of all Senate Democrats and at the beginning of each Congress it chooses the...

U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic vice presidential candidate who backed Republican John McCain for president, will meet_with_Democratic leaders this week to determine his fate with the party. By all accounts, it appears to be grim. Unless there’s some change in sentiment determined by a new balance in the Senate, the independent Democrat from Connecticut will likely lose his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, according to several reports. That may push him into the Republican caucus. “I can’t see how he keeps the chairmanship for that committee, but they will_talk and part of the discussion...

Yes I went and voted today. For the first time in my life, I voted for a straight republican ticket. On the way to the polls I kept asking myself if I could vote for Obama as I have always been a Democrat. Could I be loyal to the Democrat party. When I sat down and looked at that ballot, I realized that I had no choice but to vote for the republicans. After I turned in my ballot and left the polling place, I got sick at my stomach. I realized that I was no longer a Democrat but...

We truly believe if all of us continue to work as hard as possible tonight and tomorrow in get-out-the-vote efforts, and if we control the Eeyores in our midst and prevent the Obamedia from depressing turnout in our ranks, that McCain/Palin will win tomorrow decidedly — 286 to 252 in the electoral college – and we PUMAs will stand proud with all Republicans and Independents who joined us in this fight, because that’s what it really boils down to for us. We’ve been trying to stop Obama and his socialist takeover of this country for almost two years now. Living...

ELECTION 2008 Obama speechwriter defects to McCain 'I didn't leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me'A long-time Democratic speechwriter who claims to have written for both Barack and Michelle Obama has announced she is leaving the Democratic Party and endorsing John McCain for president. Wendy Button, a frequent columnist for the Huffington Post, where she is credited with writing speeches for Democratic Sens. John Edwards, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John Kerry and for Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, made the announcement in a blog post called "So Long, Democrats" on The Daily Beast.Button's reasons for defecting from the Democrats...

We sure as heck never thought we’d be campaigning for a Republican — let alone TWO Republicans we genuinely LIKE.We put aside so much silly partisan nonsense during the last few months — and we made friends across the aisle we hope will last forever. After this election, we’ll be on different sides of the aisle once more, but we’ll never be enemies again.

If you know the answer to this question, you know who our next President will be. While it is possible for McCain to win even if this factor is negligible, he would need to get virtually all of the undecided’s to break his way. That is theoretically possible but it is mostly wishful thinking on the part of McCain-Palin supporters. For every undecided voter either candidate picks up, it takes a vote out of the undecided column and adds one to that candidate's total. However, the spread between the two candidates only goes up by one vote. That is not...

One must scroll down to see this part. LORD Love the PUMAs! They know the really Barry and are telling all of us. (From the PUMAs website about The book Prarie Fire)Page 10 We are a guerilla organization. We are communist women and men , underground in the United States for more than four years. We are deeply affected by the historic events of our time in the struggle against U.S. imperialism. Our intention is to disrupt the empire, to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks, to make it hard to carry out its bloody functioning against the...

Link only: Former Hillary backers want party to change http://www.app.com/article/20081101/POLITICS/811010318/1024

The former Democratic speechwriter, who came out for McCain on The Daily Beast this week, responds to the death threats and hostile comments that ensued with a plea for civility.

I am an ex-democrat conservative, which puts me in great company with the likes of Ronald Reagan, and others. To have once been a die-hard Democrat is to understand the left and be able to emphasize (not necessarily agree) with their views. To be a conservative independent is to understand the left is not always right, and the liberal left is rarely right. To not be a Republican means I refuse to be trapped in party mob think, and there are folks on the far right who can turn me off as fast as a rabid socialist liberal. If you...

The Democrats in key swing states are splitting for McCain in big numbers. This effect has either not been noted, or has been ignored, by most pundits. Democrats are beaming that their party is outperforming the Republicans in early voting, releasing numbers Wednesday that show registrants of their party ahead 54 percent to 30 percent among the 1.4 million voters who have gone to the polls early. Poll gives McCain lead in Florida early voting Yet, a poll of early voters in Florida provides a curious anomaly. A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll gave McCain a 49-45 lead over Democrat Barack...

If the exit polls from NV and FL are true, it looks like we may have found a new ally buried deep in the Democrat party. Buried so deep that the polls never detected them! I'm talking about the PUMA's and all the other Democrats who are supporting McCain. Their fierce opposition to The One is only surpassed by our own. As I predicted earlier this month, the Democrat party is deeply divided, and will not give Obama the votes he needs to win, and it is thanks to these PUMA's that Obama will face an ignoble defeat on November...

By Alan Fram and Trevor Tompson, Associated Press Writers Barack Obama's support from backers of Hillary Rodham Clinton is stuck smack whwre it was in June, a poll showed Tuesday, a stunning lack of progress that is weakening with members of the Democratic Party in the close presidential race. An Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll shows that among adults who backed his rival during their bitter primary campaign percent now support Obama. That is the same percentage who said so in June...

Tina Brown is a New Labour/Democrat limousine liberal but, unlike the Obots running the snore-sheet monodailies, she's an editor first. And so, after the Buckley endorsement of Obama, she now presents Wendy Button, an Obama-Edwards-Clinton speechwriter who's voting for McCain: Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign from Joe the Plumber to the bitter comments, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates. At first, certain Democrats and the press called Senator Clinton “dishonest.” They went after her cleavage. They said her experience as First Lady consisted of having tea parties. There was...

It is no surprise the media is going full throttle on the racism issue in this final week of the campaign. There seems to be concern among liberals that usual democratic voters will pull the lever for John McCain. NY Daily News writer Denis Hamill wrote an article today illustrating his concern that his white liberal contemporaries were defecting to McCain. Hamill emphasizes in each example that these Democrats are voting McCain because of Obama's race. (my emphasis added): But we're nervous. We're Jewish and I spoke to my parents down in Florida today. They're voting for McCain." "Because he's...

....The final straw came the other week when Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (a.k.a Joe the Plumber) asked a question about higher taxes for small businesses. Instead of celebrating his aspirations, they were mocked. He wasn’t “a real plumber,” and “They’re fighting for Joe the Hedge-Fund manager,” and the patronizing, “I’ve got nothing but love for Joe the Plumber.” ..... Perhaps this is why I found the initial mocking of Joe so offensive and I realized an old line applied: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party left me.”

A prominent supporter of Hillary Clinton is in New Hampshire today to rally the troops for Republican John McCain, as Clinton herself is in the Granite State to support Democrat Barack Obama. Lynn Forester de Rothschild -- a personal friend of Clinton, a major fundraiser, and a member of the Democratic National Convention's platform committee -- plans press conferences in Dover and Manchester, the McCain campaign announced. The events are counterprogramming against Clinton, who is now enthusiastically backing Obama and who also plans events in Dover and Manchester. New Hampshire is among the most competitive states on Nov. 4. De...

Today, 09:31 AM lynfreedom Presidential Member = >1000 Posts Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Hillary Texas Posts: 6,249 Poster Rank: #6 Clinton New York Delegate Endorses McCain: just got this in email Yeah NY Quote: Marnie Delano of New York said that nothing Obama could do "could ever make me change my mind. If Hillary isn't the candidate to be nominated, I will vote for John McCain." I wrote back to see if this was a phone conversation or if it is in the news but I am going to bed...so it might have to wait. ____________________________________________

I was going to let it go when Politico did it but now NBC’s done it too, so let’s take a moment. The new narrative about fingerpointing within Team Maverick is starting to congeal and naturally Palin, given her unfavorables, is expected to be Scapegoat #1. Hence the media interest today in Tom Ridge hinting McCain would win Pennsylvania if he was VP, which is arguably true but overlooks the minor detail of how those red states McCain desperately needs to hold would have reacted to a pro-choice VP. Here’s the latest obvious attempt to advance the ball, distorting an...

October 20, 2008 By Kyle-Anne Shiver "A People's Organization is dedicated to an eternal war...A war is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play." - Saul Alinsky; Reveille for Radicals; p. 133 Rules? What rules? Laws? What laws? Clearly, Alinsky's acolytes take him at his word. When one is fighting a war "against social evils," one is above the law. Rules and laws are for the other people. I'm stunned by the irony here. For the past eight years, Americans have been bombarded nearly nonstop by cries of "Bush...

HBO and FOX will be covering this - we need to get as many people there as possible! Go to www.democratsforMcCain.com for more info. From: Frank Pinizzotto DemocratsforMcCain.com has finalized plans for a big event in Philadelphia this Saturday, Oct. 25th. HBO will be covering the Event for a Special they are doing. Several other media outlets will be there. The Event is from 11AM until 5PM. The start off point is The Constitution Center: Arch Street between 5th and 6th Streets in Philly. The Event is Called: McCain Brotherly Love - A Liberty Event. The Liberty Group will be...

Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., stopped by the Brith Sholom Society to press an issue his favored presidential candidate John McCain hopes resonates with voters on Nov. 4: experience. "At a time when the economy is seeming to be in worse shape than it was in the '30s ... I just think that of the choice between these two, John McCain is ready to be the president that we need," Mr. Lieberman said. "He's been tested over and over again." The senator identified Sen. McCain's willingness to differ with his own party on issues like campaign-finance reform and tobacco regulation and...

Dear Members of the Republican Party, Like millions of other PUMAs, the only thing I’ve decided about this election is that under no circumstances would I be voting for Barack Obama. However, like millions of other PUMAs I have also realized that the only way to ensure that Barack Obama is not elected President is if John McCain wins on November 4th. In the last few months, I have watched with amazement as you have worked hard to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the Presidential election. In your public and private utterances you have been pessimistic, downcast,...

Gov. Sarah Palin met with a group of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former supporters Tuesday evening at a special fund-raising reception organized for them on behalf of the Republican ticket. The reception, which organizers said brought in more than $500,000, was part of an extended evening of fund-raising for Ms. Palin and Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign at the Grand Hyatt in New York that officials estimated raised more than $8 million. Ms. Palin, along with her husband, Todd, mingled and posed for pictures with the group of about 20, before appearing at the larger finance event, which McCain campaign...

Okay, everyone likes to talk about polls so much. Well, how about we look at some 2004 exit poll data and apply some common sense from what we are actually seeing on the ground too. There was 37% Democratic turnout (same as Republican makeup) on Election Day, which means there were about 44.77 million Democratic voters that day. Per the exit polls Kerry received 89% of Democrats (same as Gore did), which means that he received about 39.85 million Democratic votes. For sake of argument, let us assume a similar total voter turnout of 121 million, yet give the Democrats...

If you haven’t been a regular here at HillBuzz, you might not know about Gigi Gaston’s documentary “We Will Not Be Silenced” on the caucus fraud deliberately orchestrated by the Obama campaign during the primaries. Voter intimidation, registration fraud, vandalism, threats of violence, you name it, Obama’s supporters did it. For veterans of the McGovern ‘72 campaign who remembered thugs and hooligans engaged in similar tactics in service of their own far left candidate, the actions of Obama’s followers were so bad that even people who’ve lived through the last 36 years of ups and downs in America testified that...

I see the polls, and by all the looks, Obama is winning BUT he is NOT over 50% in most polls and the MccCain vote is in the low 40s or even high 30s (Fox) this is nonsense, and us conservatives KNOW it Here is my though The Hillary voters who HATE Barry and will never vote for him must be at least 30% that is about 0.3 * 18 Million = 6 million folks My theory is that they are ALL SAYING thy will vote for Barry, and then come election day will not only NOT vote for him...

To win this election, it is important to convince reasonable Democrats (and there are lots of them in several key states) that the Obama/Biden is bad news and that McCain/Palin is the superior ticket. For those of you who want to be active and have a positive impact on this effort, here's a flyer that is sure to cause some commotion around the water cooler. Click here to access it or at the link above: Democrats for McCain/Palin Flyer (PDF, 140K) You can use this flyer to: 1.) Give to Democrat family members and friends. 2.) Give Democrat colleagues at...

SCRANTON – A major supporter of Hillary Clinton and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, on Monday said the Democratic Party has nominated “the worst candidate” while Republicans have nominated the best. Lynn Forester de Rothschild helped open the Democrats for McCain headquarters on Main Avenue in West Scranton. About 30 supporters turned out to welcome de Rothschild and speak out for the Republican ticket. “What it came down to was that I decided I love my country more than my party,” de Rothschild said, explaining her support of Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin. “I’m really...

Lynette Long's friends can barely sputter their objections. "How could you?" they say. "What about the environment? What about gay rights? What about Roe v. Wade?" Ms. Long's son calls, flabbergasted. And her patients in affluent, liberal Bethesda, Md.? They can hardly fathom it. Lynette Long – psychologist, feminist, Democrat, Dupont Circle dweller, Whole Foods shopper, George Bush hater, Hillary Clinton supporter (to the max) – is not just voting for John McCain and Sarah Palin, she even took the stage at their rally in Fairfax, Va., to trumpet her decision to the world. Ms. Long had voted for the...

Ronald Reagan famously said "I didn't leave the Democratic Party, it left me." I'm seeing this sentiment a lot, most recently in a friend of mine. He's gay, he's Wiccan, he's Democratic – until he changes his registration. I suspect the Democratic Party has left most of its members; it just takes a major shock to get any given person to notice. Wizbang has posted a letter from someone who finally had to pay attention to having been deserted by his party. To the readers of Wizbang: I write this to you as a lifelong Democrat, as someone who has...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Today, McCain-Palin 2008 held a press conference call with Miguel D. Lausell, Senior Political Advisor to Hillary Clinton, and Clinton Delegate-at-Large Luchy Secaira. Both Lausell and Secaira endorsed John McCain for president. Excerpts from today's conference call:

ARLINGTON, VA -- The McCain-Palin presidential campaign today announced the endorsement of Miguel D. Lausell, Senior Political Advisor to Hillary Clinton, and Clinton Delegate-at-Large Luchy Secaira. "Although I supported Hillary during the primaries, I now support John McCain and Governor Palin because I am putting my country first," said Secaira, former Hillary Clinton Florida Delegate-at-Large. "They have the experience and judgment to lead America through these difficult times, and I trust them to work with Democrats to do the right thing for our country." Lausell, who advised Senator Clinton on a variety of issues including international trade, telecommunications and Latino...

It was a beautiful sight to behold. The obviously pro-Obama Campbell Brown snarling throughout an interview at the heels of former Hillary Clinton fundraiser and now McCain supporter, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, for "daring" to switch sides. After several minutes of accusing de Rothschild of everything from being an elitist to acting as a traitor to the Democrats, Campbell Brown set herself up for the grand slam dunk by Ms Rothschild using the very words of the Lightworker to turn the tables on the CNN interviewer. First we see in the transcript how Campbell Brown begins with an elitism charge...

It was a beautiful sight to behold. The obviously pro-Obama Campbell Brown snarling throughout an interview at the heels of former Hillary Clinton fundraiser and now McCain supporter, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, for "daring" to switch sides. After several minutes of accusing de Rothschild of everything from being an elitist to acting as a traitor to the Democrats, Campbell Brown set herself up for the grand slam dunk by Ms Rothschild using the very words of the Lightworker to turn the tables on the CNN interviewer. First we see in the transcript how Campbell Brown begins with an elitism charge...

I haven't seen this posted yet. Sorry if it already posted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vlExEpeFlo

RUSH: Scott in Dallas, I'm glad you waited. You're up next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello. CALLER: Good afternoon, sir. RUSH: Hey. CALLER: This morning, Campbell Brown tried to literally take apart Lynn Rothschild, a formerly very high placed Hillary Clinton supporter who has just voiced her support for John McCain. RUSH: Yes. CALLER: It was interesting to watch that she was -- Campbell Brown was furious, she interrupted Rothschild, and I kept wondering, "What if this were a former McCain supporter who had all of a sudden turned Obama supporter?" Campbell Brown would have just fawned over her....

Watching Wolf Blitzer as he interviewed a big Hillary supporter, Ms Rothschild, and Wolf grilled her and she ended with the Ronald Reagan quote, "I didn't leave the demcorat party, the democart party left me". Wolf even stated that she was going to get a lot of flack, but she was strong.

No excerpts for AP, summarized below.

Tune in and see what she says!

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN.

From CNN Political Editor Mark Preston WASHINGTON (CNN) — Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, will endorse John McCain for president on Wednesday, her spokesman tells CNN. The announcement will take place at a news conference on Capitol Hill, just blocks away from the DNC headquarters. Forester will “campaign and help him through the election,” the spokesman said of her plans to help the Republican presidential nominee. Forester was a major donor for Clinton earning her the title as a Hillraiser for helping to raise at least $100,000...

Despite it all, Sen. Joe Lieberman still considers himself a Democrat. "I do, I do," he said in an interview Monday. "Though I'm a disappointed Democrat because the Democratic Party has left some of the fundamental policies that it followed, not only when I joined it when President Kennedy was the leader of the party, but frankly just eight years ago, when President Clinton was the leader of the party. I'm talking about a willingness to reform." Lieberman, a longtime Connecticut senator who was the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential nominee, was in Las Vegas on Monday to campaign for the...

A Democratic state representative who supported U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton during the New Hampshire primary has endorsed U.S. Sen. John McCain‘s presidential campaign. The McCain campaign announced that state Rep. Doreen Howard (D-Newmarket) endorsed McCain because he "values the importance of public service."