Posted on 11/25/2008 7:44:26 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl
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 Reid has seen fit to let you stay as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, even though you spoke out with all your might against the inexperienced Barack Obama, WHY do you remain an "Independent democrat"? Why not become a Republican?
I saw you at the rallies, Senator Lieberman. There's plenty of clips of you on YouTube standing behind John McCain, clapping and nodding as he speaks not only about national security, but about tax cuts and excessive government spending. You booed along with the crowd when Senator McCain said the democrats were planning on taxing our 401K contributions. Remember this night: (WARNING: soaring score from "Rudy" and cheering crowds still stings like crazy)
So which is it, Senator? Do you agree with the democrats, or do you agree with the Republicans?
Why not demonstrate your love for Senator McCain and your belief that he was right by SWITCHING PARTIES. After all that we who supported Senator McCain have been through, it would be a powerful and courageous act on your part to say, 'you know what, I believe in my brother John and I want to live by that belief. That means I have to be a Republican.' What do you have to lose? Reid already said you could keep your chair. What's he going to do if you switch, try to take it away again? He might, but hasn't Obama been insisting that he's looking for a bipartisanship effort and the bickering has to stop?
I saw you in Israel with Senator McCain.
You know how much they love John in Israel.
It may be the only place in the world he would have won.
Some people get it, some people don't.
Unfortunately for us, lots of American voters who not only don't get it, but don't even know who Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are, checked in at their polling stations at least once on Nov. 4 and now here we are.
You are at your best when you allow your true self to come out. You know that the Republican party is more in line with where you are as a Torah Observant Jew, hence the reason 75% of Orthodox Jews voted for John McCain. And John McCain got one in ten of the military vote (including my brother's vote, and he's one of your constituents.) As so many have said before, the democrat party left you. So now is the time to leave them. They diss you all over the place. Would you want their love back even if you could get it?
I don't doubt you love John Sidney McCain III.
I don't doubt that you love this country. 
We share in disappointment that Senator McCain is not the president-elect.
It would make me feel better and I think it would make you feel better if you stood up in the Senate and said: "You know what? I can't bear it. I love the military, I love the surge, I love one man and one woman getting married and having children, I love letting Americans keep more of their own money to pay their own bills, and it's high time for me to BAIL OUT of the democrat party. The Republicans may be in the minority now, but today they just increased their number in the Senate by one."
Face it, Senator, you put it all on the line for John McCain. And you know he wanted you to be his VP and he's probably still kicking furniture when he thinks about how he was talked out of it. So make things better. Say it wasn't all for naught. Join the GOP, Senator. We're waiting for you.
Why do you expect conservative perfection? Why not just expect the relative maintenance of the conservative platform plus some action in that direction? Even Reagan was responsible for some major amnesty.
That's right, just throw me a few crumbs so I'll stay in the fold. That's the mindset that has got us in this mess.
Oh, and the Roberts thing on the SC? Wasn't there a dustup with another, shall we say, leftist, as the first nominee
Democrats jumping to the GOP is what got them in this mess in the first place. Lieberman is on the correct side of one issue. One. That’s it.
Why do you keep pimping these moderates and liberals? You middle-of-the-roaders could have your own website if any of you were passionate about anything other than compromise.
Actually, this is a little bit of leftist revisionist history trying to blame Lieberman for the 2000 loss, started by the nyt.
Lieberman was trying to shield the dems from Republican accusations that they were trying to throw out military absentee votes. He did not, in any way that I am aware of, attempt to change the dem strategy of fighting to have the absentee military votes discounted.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E6DA1F3BF933A15752C1A9669C8B63
According to Bill Sammon’s book “At Any Cost” his take was also that Lieberman wouldn’t go along with the Gore plan to spike the military ballots. You saw the clip yourself, didn’t you? He said what he said. I guess we could always be suspicious of him and never attribute good intentions to him, but I don’t see the purpose of that. Do you?
Joe Lieberman switching parties is about as likely as Moderates and Independents producing a win for John McCain in a national election cycle.
Hey....wait a minute....(chuckle)
The majority of military ballots were being contested because they didn't have postmarks which many never have. All he said was they should be looked at again, not that they should be counted.
Sammon’s take plays kind of like the HBO bit in that Lieberman was told the argument about how to ditch the ballots, but then he went on t.v. and didn’t support that position. I understand the argument that it was already too late to ditch the ballots, but even Sammon said that what Lieberman said on t.v. was used by the GOP to count the ballots.
I guess you have to ask yourself what the point of trashing Lieberman is. He is reviled by the left, as a search on You Tube will show you. If he did everything for his own sake, why did he support the war? That’s what lost him dem backing in his own primary. Even now, he went on Brokaw’s show and wouldn’t apologize for what he said in the campaign or for campaigning on behalf of McCain. He said he regretted some of what he said, but he wouldn’t apologize.
Source?
No doubt. I asked the extremists several times which Republican congressman they consider to be RINOs and which are “real conservatives”. They never gave me an answer.
On the contrary, if Joe had been McCain’s VP pick, the ticket would have won over many more moderates than Palin won over conservatives. Instead, moderates abandoned the GOP and enough of the right stayed home to cost us the election anyway.
Why do you ask me? It was Cinnamon Girl's contention. I was hoping she could provide the source.
Yes he did support the war, as did many of the dems. The others cut and wanted to run and Lieberman stayed the course, for what ever reason.
Now that the dems are in power and he has kissed and made up with reid he cannot be trusted. He voted with the dems 99% of the time and the war in Iraq is pretty much a non-issue coming up, unless the dems want to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I respect Joe for being a patriot, but that’s it. As far as I am concerned, he’s the only lib that rises to that level, and the rest of them could all drop dead for all I care.
Joe will remain a patriot, I think, but he will never give up his liberalness.
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda . . . You think. I think. Everybody thinks. If I have to “appeal” to Socialist Lites to “win”, they can just join the party they’re already in anyway - The Democrats, and let them eat cake. We have seen, for the most part, where eight years of “moderate RINOs” get us. - Conservatism is a principle, not a party.
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