Judas Iscariot calls you a piece of shit, JoeWell, the circle is complete and ex-Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is addressing the Republican Convention. I don't know which is the more craven and disappointing act....a lifelong liberal pandering to a staunch conservative audience or said audience applauding a man who espouses ideals they have rejected for four decades. It's the former for me, because Joe Lieberman was a champion for liberal values for much of his adult life. The Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate eight years ago has been reduced to groveling for attention to people who would otherwise throw him in the street. To wit:
- Joe Lieberman supported reproductive rights for women
- Joe Lieberman supported LGBT rights
- Joe Lieberman supported civil rights for blacks - going so far as being a Freedom Rider in the mid-60's and being beaten by Southern racists with baseball bats for his beliefs
- Joe Lieberman supported strong environmental protections
- Joe Lieberman supported strong gun control
- Joe Lieberman supported strengthening and defending Social Security from Congressional Republicans' attempts to privatize the program
- Joe Lierberman voted against amending the Constitution to criminalize flag desecration
All of this....all these years of serving his constituents and the American people honorably disappears tonight. Tonight, Joe Lieberman casts his lot with a candidate and a party that would roll back each and every advancement he has worked his life to achieve. It's a sad and pathetic spectacle.
If you need futher evidence of what a craven asshole Joe Lieberman is, witness his "stirring" endorsement of Democratic values 4 years ago when this traitor asshole was running for president:
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Joe Lieberman was really pandering for a VP nom. Plus, McCain's the only one who still talks to him.
Probably because he's the only one who still talks to McCain.
The scuttlebutt was that McCain really, really, really wanted Hang Dog Joe as his VP, but the GOP establishment kayoed that proposal because of Lieberman's liberal views on social issues.
Come November, I'm hoping the Democrats win enough seats to increase their majority in the Senate so they can throw this bum out on his ass. Right now, they need him in the caucus to preserve their razon-thin majority. And he knows that.
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