Does anybody really support Lieberman?

[PlanetBev]

This guy is about as appealing as a dust ball in the corner. I haven't met a single Democrat who doesn't gag when his name is mentioned. I hope the Democratic Leadership organizations don't have any happy ideas about getting behind him.

[anti_shrub]

1. Not many here do

But saying so publically opens the door for someone to claim not supporting Lieberman means you don't like jews....

[Skittles]

2. I really get tired of that

I've heard my negativity towards him called a "knee-jerk reaction" too. BULLSHIT. My number one complaint is that HE IS F***ING BORING. I CANNOT STAND TO HEAR THE MAN SPEAK.

[anti_shrub]

6. Amen to that

My first experience with Joe was back in the early 90s when I was a non-political arcade rat and he was co sponsoring a bill to ban violent games, and making himself sound like the stereotypical out of touch parent.

Plus he looks like Emperor Palpatine too...

[Lexingtonian]

3. In my opinion

he's running for VP, really. Or maybe as the 'savior' figure able to squeeze a bunch more Jewish votes out of Palm Beach and Broward Counties next November.

So I don't mind what he does (pro-Likud propaganda, Iraq cheerleading, Bush agreement, etc) and all kinds of criticism of him is beside the point since he doesn't have the kind or level of support to win the nomination proper. If he does get Democrats an additional 50,000 votes in Florida which wins that state for us then he has served our purposes well. And his own, because I don't believe that he took the loss in 2000 lightly. (Sure, he didn't expect to win then given what the pollsters were saying up to the day before that Election Day, but I think the way he and Gore were abused by the process that followed is what drives him now.)

I suspect that only three or four of the candidates are exclusively aiming at taking on the big job. A guess would be that Lieberman and Graham seem to want Veep, Edwards something like Attorney General, Kucinich maybe Sec. of Labor, Moseley-Braun something on the order of DHHS or HUD, Sharpton some kind of commission or other advisory role.

[Noordam]

8. This Florida boys opinion is Graham would have got GORE a ton

more votes in Florida in 2000 than holy joe did.

[angeleyes]

4. I do

He is not very charismatic but.....I think he could get the repubs to work with him. He has the best appeal with moderate republican voters as well.

[Piperay]

5. I can take him or leave him...

I would rather leave him but I will take him over chimp any day of the week. If Gore picked him as running mate he must have seen something in him, if he was good enough for Gore he will get my vote IF he gets the nomination.

[ikojo]

9. What Gore saw in Lieberman is a very conservative

Democrat who it was thought could appeal to the Reagan Democrats and/or soccer moms. He was conservative on cultural issues. Since Gore was so closely associated with Clinton, nominating someone as conservative as Lieberman was seen as a repudiation of all things Clinton.

It was political opportunism at its best that got Lieberman the nomination for VP.

[Myra]

7. No

EOM

[eauclaireliberal]

10. RE: Does anybody really support Lieberman?

Hell no. Lieberman is a zionist-i.e. he supports what Israel is doing to the Arabs. He supports the illegal war in Iraq. He dissed Gore, then signed-off on the U.S.A Traitor Act...thrashing your rights for the benifit of Ariel Sharon, G.W. Bush and the rest of the criminal gang. He is no democrat: he's a neo-con wannabe.

Lieberman, like every other member of the House and Senate, deserve to be locked-up in a maximum security prison, along with the BFEE and the Felonius Five.