To the surprise of no one (Harry Reid excepted) the Connecticut Crapweasle will be endorsing a Republican for President. Showing that he hasn’t a lost his flair for lost causes and politically tone deaf moves, he has chosen to bestow his favors upon John McCain who has already suffered so much in this life.
Does this mean anything? Only if it’s an admission that he sees the writing on the wall of a potential Republican wipe-out in 2008 where Democrats will no longer feel the need to tolerate his presence. Who knows, maybe this is his all-in bet, with an agreement to become McCain’s running mate in the unlikely case that McCain wins the nomination since I can’t imagine any of the other egomaniac nominees agreeing to play second fiddle… with the exception of Mike Huckabee.
Either way, hopefully this will be the last straw for the Democratic party and they’ll boot the malignant little polyp from all committee seats. It’s not like anyone is going to miss him.




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Yup. Lordy, and after Hill and Bill went to bat for him last year. They’re the reason he wasn’t stripped of his committee seats after he went Indy.
Gee, Hil, now the little twerp’s stabbed y’all in the back a second time in the past decade. Care to go for the trifecta?
A Lieberman adviser said the senator decided to back McCain despite being a Republican because he believes his colleague from Arizona “has the best chance of uniting the country in its fight against Islamic terrorism.”
I hadn’t heard much on the fight against Islamofascism lately. It’s good to know that Holy Joe is still on the job.
and yet, here’s Lieberman before the election
The last honest man.
Isn’t it more of a slap on Obama? or is it a two-fer? It seems like more independents and Republicans are on the Obama bandwagon there.
You didn’t hear? We totally, totally won. There are pit bar-b-q stands popping up everywhere, and the women are all dressing like Paris Hilton.
Please try to keep up….
Does anyone think the timing of this is a coincidence? Just when the netroots are hammering on Harry Reid for his “all Calvinball” USSenate, RGJoe swoops in to make Harry Reid’s Monday even better.
What a fuckin stinkwad.
You know, when I last checked Joe’s official website, he was at least trying to come to grips with the harsh realities of his fucked-up self. I wonder if 2008 will see Senator Palpatine finally turn to the dark side and embrace that which slowly rots at the core of his evil being?
HAHAHA!!!! Yeah, that will happen about the time Republican men start having sex with adult women.
HOw can the people of Conn continue to be so incredibly stupid?
It’s not the people of Connecticut who were stupid. It was the Republicans of Connecticut who put HoJo over in the general. My wingnut brother and sister-in-law were giggly as shit over the opportunity to ’stick it to the Democrats.’
When McCain’s campaign craters after New Hampshire, the only question is whether Lieberman will endorse another Republican right away or wait to endorse the ultimate GOP nominee. And yes, he’ll do that even if the nominee is Huckabee, who probably thinks Lieberman has horns and puts Christian babies’ blood in Passover matzohs.
Damn, what a friggin’ weasel. I just despise that guy. He’s worse than a republican.
Christianity…isn’t that the religion where knocked up nuns have to say Jesus is the Daddy?
Is Joe Lieberman the lowest form of life in the universe? Opinions differ.
This is all part of the great “Chastity ‘08″, I mean “Unity ‘08″ plan. After losing the Republican nomination, McCain and Loserman will become the “Unity” party candidates.
Will this endorsement thing involve more kissing on the lips, like with Bush? Cause if it does, I don’t want to watch.
VonZeppelin, thanks for that visual. Ewwwwwwww. I had put the Bush smooch out of my mind, finally. Now this.
A Liebermaniacal attempt at trying to remain relevant.
It’s not the people of Connecticut who were stupid. It was the Republicans of Connecticut who put HoJo over in the general. My wingnut brother and sister-in-law were giggly as shit over the opportunity to ’stick it to the Democrats.
Connecticut Republicans couldn’t have made the difference without Connecticut Democrats abandoning their party in significant enough numbers to put Lieberman over the top.
And a sizable minority of Connecticut Dems wouldn’t have done this if
the Senate Democratic leadership had stripped Holy Joe of his seniority and committee assignments when he decided to run against their own party’s nominee last year. Though Bill and Hill certainly have responsibility for their own support of him, his semi-official recognition by the party he betrayed was what let this whole farce continue as it has.
As is usually the case, the Democratic Party has gotten exactly what it deserves. Democratic voters–and the American people–however deserve better.
I heard this story while driving today, and my first thought was what a scum-sucking crapweasel; thanks for adding that term to my vocabulary since obviously we are all in great need of it at this point in time.
I had to immediately scroll your post past his photo since I can’t stand to look at this pig. This is one time where it was truly merciful that only the top post has the photo displayed when you enter Tboggdom!
Well, they do have a lot in common. Like, they both went to Baghdad and wore body armor, and bought stuff in the ‘market’.
Just to make sure this is the kiss of death, it might be time to remind our wingnut counterparts (who are already convinced that McCain is a ‘liberal’) about all of Holy Joe’s (actual) liberal positions on the environment and such.
I heard his sanctimonious endorsement on the radio, too. Political parties are OK, but he puts America first. Ugh. Sickening. I really despise him and his whinny voice and his weasel face.
He still has all his committee seats and whatnot because the Dems have a one-seat majority in the Senate. If they take away his toys, he bolts for the other side and the Democrats become the minority party.
Considering that the dems don’t seem to be able to counter the repub obstructionism in the senate, they should kick the lieberweasles ass to the other side of the aisle, anyway. Having Reid in charge is as good as being the minority party or republican when he makes crap decisions like he did on the FISA bill until Chris Dodd and tens of thousands of net-rooters told him “No Way”.
Better that, and have enough minority Dems to block everything McConnell wants because of the Magic Sixty Votes, than keep HoJoe in the caucus. For fuck’s sake, if endorsing a candidate of the other party doesn’t get you thrown out, what does?
Oh, and expect HoJoe to speak at the Republican convention next year. That’s an easy one.
One big reason aside from all the “Crapweasle” reasons why Lieberman for Lieberman threw in for McCain the Republican is that no Democrats asked for the Crapweasle’s endorsement. Of course, I suppose you could say that his being a Crapweasle would explain that also.
I believe that even if Crapweasel chose to organize himself with the Repubs, leadership would not change during this session of the Senate because of the rules that were adopted at the beginning of it. All that would happen is that Crappy and his Repub pals would start making a huge stink about the fact that the “minority party” was in control of the levers of power. We can safely assume that their attempt to rally public support for a transfer of leadership would be met with a deafening silence from the electorate, unless the popularity of the Party of the President suddenly skyrocketed while I wasn’t paying attention.
Time to put old Joe out to pasture. Let him be an Army of One for the rest of his meaningless last term.