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What are you getting at here? They can’t do that. Anyone can join any party and no party can kick anyone out or revoke their membership.
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No, but they could do the next best thing: Refuse to let him into the Democratic Caucus and strip him of all his committee assignments. If he wants to be on any committees, he’d HAVE TO do it under the GOP wing… meaning instead of just being a wolf in sheeps clothing, he’ll be a wolf in wolf’s clothing.
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I’m amazed some people think this result is a poke in the eye to President Bush; I bet he’s pleased as punch.
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It is because now other Dems will take the lesson that campaigining on an antiwar platform is a winner, and that hurts Bush a lot more than the Pubs gaining, or Lieberman keeping, Connecticut’s Senate seat would help him.
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No, but they could do the next best thing: Refuse to let him into the Democratic Caucus and strip him of all his committee assignments. If he wants to be on any committees, he’d HAVE TO do it under the GOP wing… meaning instead of just being a wolf in sheeps clothing, he’ll be a wolf in wolf’s clothing.
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He CAN’T join the GOP; Lord Rovedemort would want to tattoo the Dark Mark on his arm, and as a conservative Jew, he can’t allow that.
What about Libertarian Jews?
Well, I’m not prepared to speak to that, all I know is that he insists upon staying kosh–
Hey, WAIT A MINUTE!
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Lieberman is not a Bush kiss-ass. He’s just not as hard-core and far-left as Reid and a few even in this thread.
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Karl Rove offers help to Lieberman: “The boss wants to help.”
Tony Snow: A vote for Lamont is a vote for 9/11
NRSC starts pro-Lieberman/anti-Lamont spam campaign
White House blames extremists for Lieberman’s loss
Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt, guys.
Yeah, that crazy far-left radical, Harry Reid. Why, just look at the guy, you can see that he simply seethes with revolutionary fervor and Trotskyist zeal!
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Karl Rove offers help to Lieberman: “The boss wants to help.”
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From the link in that blog post.
Just my opinion here, but that just seems like sticking by someone that backs his policies (Lieberman) instead of someone who doesn’t (Lamont).
Do you have any other cites for this? All I saw was a scant paragraph with no source noted.
I have to say that this whole sordid Lieberman thing smacks of “If’n ya ain’t with us, yer agin us.” I have no problem with the voters chucking him if they don’t feel he represents their views. I just don’t see how the guy who sounds like Alf’s dad deserves this much vitriol.
National GOP chair Ken Mehlman refuses to endorse republican candidate over Lieberman.
I read about that too. Too funny. Two bits says that is “clarified” into non-existence within a day or two. No, no, that’s not what he meant, taken out of context, distorted, yadda-blah, yadda-blah. It reeks of opportunism, and it won’t focus-group for shit.
He’ didn’t say it, and if he did say it, he didn’t mean it, and if he did mean it, he didn’t say it.
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Lieberman loses:
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I blame video games.
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Hey, at least Bush didn’t try to give him a shoulder rub.
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I think ol’ Laura needs to give up the pink Real Soon Now before Bush gets so horny he tries to dry hump Nancy Pelosi.
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
It is because now other Dems will take the lesson that campaigining on an antiwar platform is a winner, and that hurts Bush a lot more than the Pubs gaining, or Lieberman keeping, Connecticut’s Senate seat would help him.
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I am not at all convinced that the anti-war platform is a winner, but I do think that supporting an open ended military committment to Iraq is a loser. Frankly, I don’t see why we need to be there in full force anymore.
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National GOP chair Ken Mehlman refuses to endorse republican candidate over Lieberman.
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Republican Mike McGavick, challenger for the Senate seat held by Democrat Maria Cantwell here in Washington State, went one step further: he has actively endorsed Lieberman’s independent bid, choosing him over Alan Schlesinger, the official Republican candidate in Connecticut.
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…choosing him over Alan Schlesinger, the official Republican candidate in Connecticut.
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Man, that’s gotta hurt! Kicked to the curb and then shoved under the bus!