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Title: Lieberman won't rule out run as Republican in 2012
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CNN
URL Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITIC ... n.senate/index.html?eref=ib_us
Published: Dec 15, 2009
Author: Dana Bash,
Post Date: 2009-12-15 21:52:02 by mininggold
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Views: 306
Comments: 24
Lieberman won't rule out run as Republican in 2012 Published: Dec 15, 2009 Author: Dana Bash WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, a former Democrat who sits with Democratic caucus, said Tuesday that he would not rule out running for re-election in 2012 as a Republican. Lieberman angered his colleagues in the Democratic caucus this week by threatening to torpedo health care legislation if it contains a government-run public health insurance or an expansion of Medicare. Lieberman said he wasn't sure which party, if any, he would represent in his next election. "I like being an independent, so that's definitely a possibility," the Connecticut senator said. "But I'd say all options are open." He called running as a Republican "unlikely" but added that he wouldn't "foreclose any possibility." "I've reached the stage in my career where I'm not measuring every step I take based on how it's going to affect the next election," Lieberman said. "I think if you do that, you end up compromising the quality of your service." In 2000, Lieberman was Al Gore's running mate when Democrats lost the closest presidential national election in U.S. history. Six years later, he was defeated in the Democratic primary and then ran as an independent to win re-election to the Senate. Lieberman still sits with the Democratic caucus, which holds 60 seats in the 100-member Senate, the minimum amount necessary to overcome a filibuster. That dynamic allowed Lieberman to assert his will in the health care debate by threatening to join a Republican filibuster if the health care bill contained the public option or Medicare expansion he opposes. He acknowledged that his stance angered Democratic colleagues but said he acted on principle, not politics. "I knew some of them were upset about positions I'd taken," Lieberman said. "But like each of them, I didn't get elected by telling my voters in Connecticut that I would follow the majority of my caucus even if I thought on some things they were wrong. We each have to do what we think is right." Taking a stand in the polarized political environment means "a bunch of people will think you've done something great and a bunch of people will think you've done something awful," Lieberman said. However, Lieberman's stance on the health care bill could prompt a backlash from liberal Democrats. He was criticized by liberal groups, and even his wife -- who formerly worked for a pharmaceutical company -- was targeted. "I've done what I thought was right, but it's no fun to have your colleagues be angry at you," Lieberman said. "It's no fun to have your wife attacked. But, you know, you got to do what you think is right."
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#1. To: mininggold (#0)
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I'm all tingly w/ excitement! It would be the first time two ex VP candidates from opposing parties would be on the same ticket, at least in my lifetime. And both from losing tickets! lol
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Scary title!
Avoiding foreign entanglements is the best domestic policy.
what ever gave you the notion they are from opposing parties?
I know, I'm just being optimistic, gullible and naive. Lieberman alone proves the one party theory. Personally I can't wait for our first dual citizenship president. The crowning touch after Obama. And I do mean this with sarcasm.
I'm all tingly w/ excitement! "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
Are the Republicans so totally devoid of presidential timber that they would nominate someone they had been trashing back in 2000?! Lieberman's opposition to the health plan isn't based on some noble conservative principle. He's the Senator from Connecticut and Hartford is the home to several big-time insurance companies. Lieberman was rejected by Democrats in his last bid and he won as an independent only by sucking up to the big money interests - and in Conn that means the insurance companies.
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Ya just can't be more hypocritical than this ! Here's how I see "party" politics: They put your quarter in the Juke Box, they drink your beer, smoke your dope and fuck your old lady, then tell you to support the bastard kid. What a "party" !
Doing what's right isn't always easy but it's always right.
I guess everyone here realizes Liebermann is a dual citizen. I didn't, because (silly me) I assumed that duals couldn't run for the top two slots. The total emersion of the USA with Israel in one candidate. How appropriate.
Just makes it official.
Avoiding foreign entanglements is the best domestic policy.
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Some on the Daily Kos are demanding that he needs to revoke one or the other. Of course some sites are calling that by the same old names. It's hard to really tell because I think like for Mexicans our government doesn't require proof.
He's a dual personality............ creep and creepier.
Chances of that ticket happening is about the same as Al Gore getting the interior temperature of the earth anywhere near correct. ;-)
Thompson/Hunter ........ oh, that would be suicidal.
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------- As compared to which other tandems? Sorry. I had a brain fart. I meant Hunter/Thompson would be suicidal. ****
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Hunter Thompson ................ the very interesting and now dead writer. The guy was somewhat of a genius. Some people could not stand him. I thought he was great.
The guy was somewhat of a genius. Some people could not stand him. I thought he was great. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kentucky_Derby_Is_Decadent_and_Depraved This is a nice example of his style of writing.
Why not? The Republicrat Party has morphed into nothing more than warmongering leftists anyway. He will fit right in.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 The purpose of the legal system is to protect the elites from the wrath of those they plunder.- Elliott Jackalope "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Why doesn't he just change his registration to "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
#2. To: Eric Stratton (#1)
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Palin/Lieberman '12
#3. To: mininggold (#2)
#4. To: mininggold (#0)
#5. To: mininggold (#2)
It would be the first time two ex VP candidates from opposing parties would be on the same ticket, at least in my lifetime. And both from losing tickets! lol
The best gun to have, is the gun you have, when you need a gun.
#6. To: IRTorqued (#5)
what ever gave you the notion they are from opposing parties?
#7. To: Eric Stratton (#1)
(Edited)
Palin/Lieberman '12
#8. To: mininggold (#0)
#9. To: Original_Intent (#7)
#10. To: mininggold (#0)
I'm not measuring every step I take based on how it's going to affect the next election," Lieberman said. "I think if you do that, you end up compromising the quality of your service." In 2000, Lieberman was Al Gore's running mate
#11. To: All, Eric Stratton, Prefrontal Vortex, IRTorqued, Original_Intent, Shoonra, Noone222 (#0)
#12. To: mininggold (#11)
The total emersion of the USA with Israel in one candidate. How appropriate.
#13. To: mininggold (#11)
#14. To: Eric Stratton (#13)
Seriously, he's a dual citizen?
#15. To: Eric Stratton (#13)
Seriously, he's a dual citizen?
#16. To: Eric Stratton, mininggold, All (#1)
Palin/Lieberman '12
#17. To: Eric Stratton (#1)
Palin/Lieberman '12
#18. To: beyond the sea (#17)
#19. To: Eric Stratton (#18)
Thompson/Hunter ........ oh, that would be suicidal.
#20. To: beyond the sea (#19)
#21. To: Eric Stratton (#20)
#22. To: All, Eric Stratton (#21)
Hunter Thompson ................ the very interesting and now dead writer.
#23. To: mininggold (#0)
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#24. To: mininggold (#0)
Lieberman won't rule out run as Republican in 2012
National Socialist err, Likud already and just be done with it?
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