Would Joe Lieberman Be The Dem Nominee If Today's Terror Announcements Occured On Monday?
and he certainly has a liberal streak, but he talks like a social conservative (even if he doesn't always vote that way) and is a hawk; two thing it's hard to divine about John McCain. I continue to believe Joe's victory in the general will eventually lead to a de facto new Republican in the caucus, in the Lincoln Chaffee model, except Joe is a lot smarter than Lincoln. Once he's not beholden to the Dems he can vote his conscience instead of the mandates of liberal intrest groups.
The Dems have indeed done to Joe what they did to Zell; I wonder who they will send us next?
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. St. Paul
Talk is cheap, but it's your votes that speak.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
It’s funny how many care so much more about the symbolism of Senator Lieberman’s rhetoric than they do about the substance of his actual votes or the legislation he’s sponsored.
On moral issues, I think rhetoric is extremely important -- possibly more important than votes. The issues are often behavioral, and behavior is often influenced more by attitudes than laws.
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"It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race." - Chief Justice John Roberts
but still a Lamont win. As a time saver; the real enemy is in the White House. If much of Liberaldom hasn't grasped the enormity of the world war we're in by now, the latest news wouldn't make much of a difference.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
The 8% of far-left supports would still have voted for Ned. Probably would have thought the announcement was timed and released for political reasons to help Bush's poll numbers or even have blamed Bush for causing the problem and then associated Liebermann with Bush.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.--Abraham Lincoln
list some reasons why you think today wouldnt have helped. i think it would as many people only think about whats right in front of them.
I don't think this would have motivated higher turnout among the people who aren't dead-set against President Bush and the War on Terror.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
It's all about the waaaar, maaaaaaaaaaaan!
This whole "terror" thing is all because of Bush, maaaaaaaaaaaan!
They just did this to help Joe the Love Child, maaaaaaaaaaaan!
It's the global zionist neo-con conspiracy at work, maaaaaaaaaaaan!
I'm only 1/3 kidding.
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"I don't know." -- Helen Thomas, when asked by White House spokesman Scott McClellan, "Are we at war, Helen?"
I say NO.
The people who voted for Lamont don't believe that we are at war, do not believe that Islamofacsism is the enemy, and hate America anyway. This bust in the UK does not change that and in their view is probably a 'setup' anyway.
John
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Why would God invent a thing like whiskey? To keep the Irish from ruling the world of course.
Finally, somebody who gets it. I'm actually kind of surprised that so many people just don't get that the anti-war crowd has such onanistic logic that these latest events are merely proof that the war must end. If we weren't opressing Muslims, they wouldn't be angry at us, QED.
Never mind that 9/11 was planned long before Bush 43 was elected. Never mind any facts that conflict with the theory that we started it all. The anti-war crowd is lost to reason. The strong can only be at fault, the weak can only be the righteous.
Lieberman only lost by a bit, 4% right. And there was a strong swing in the last week or two, implying a sizable swing vote. So this, the foild attack news, would have just bolstered Lieberman's "Strong on Defense" position.
The radicals would still have voted against him, but they aren't even a majority of Dem primary voters in Conn. If the Dem primary voters had really been radicalized by the anti-war left then Lieberman would have lost by much more.
my 2 cents.
believe today was overblown or untrue. This is where the Democratic Party's motivated base is, and it wouldn't have helped Lieberman one bit.
Its just one more piece in his upcoming vixtory