No comment required. Just standard AIPAC Joe.

Lieberman to Endorse McCain
December 16, 2007 6:35 PM EST

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Sen. John McCain, trying to build momentum toward a reprise of his 2000 New Hampshire primary victory, is piling up high-profile endorsements, including one from another political maverick, Sen. Joseph Lieberman.

The Connecticut senator, an independent who was the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential nominee, was scheduled to announce his support for McCain at a town hall meeting Monday morning in Hillsborough.

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."

The adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in advance of the formal announcement, said Lieberman would continue to caucus with Senate Democrats, and said his decision was not a reflection of any lingering tension with his old party after high-profile Democrats abandoned him when he lost the Democratic primary during his 2006 Senate re-election campaign.

One 2008 White House contender, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, supported Lieberman in the primary, but said after he lost, "I'm going to just hope Senator Lieberman will take a hard look at this and do what is best for Connecticut and the Democratic Party."

Another leading Democratic candidate, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, donated $5,000 to the Democratic nominee, Ned Lamont, and sent an e-mail just before the general election saying, "Please join me in supporting Ned Lamont with your hard work on-the-ground in these closing weeks of the campaign."

Lieberman subsequently won re-election with an independent candidacy and has since been the darling of many prominent Republicans, including former White House adviser Karl Rove, for pushing a hard line in support of the country's war in Iraq. McCain also supports the war, calling it a critical battlefront in the fight against terrorism.

A top McCain aide said: "They are obviously very good friends. McCain helped him in his re-elect, and the significance of the support he will help attract to McCain cannot be overstated."

The aide also spoke on the condition of anonymity prior to the Monday event, which the campaign generically advertised as "a major new endorsement."

Word of the endorsement follows several other high-profile announcements for McCain, including weekend endorsements by The Des Moines Register and The Boston Globe.

McCain has largely ceded the Iowa caucuses to front-runners Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, but the Register said, "McCain is most ready to lead America in a complex and dangerous world and to rebuild trust at home and abroad by inspiring confidence in his leadership."

The Globe, while not based in New Hampshire, circulates in New Hampshire's vote-rich southern tier. McCain has focused his campaign on the Granite State, hoping to repeat his 2000 victory over George W. Bush.

"The iconoclastic senator from Arizona has earned his reputation for straight talk by actually leveling with voters, even at significant political expense," the Globe wrote.

McCain has also picked up endorsements from The New Hampshire Union Leader, the state's largest newspaper, and The Portsmouth Herald.

"U.S. Sen. John McCain will tell you the truth, even if it costs him the election," the Herald wrote.

McCain, campaigning Sunday in Florida, said he expected the endorsements would help him with undecided voters, especially registered Republicans.

"All of them say the same thing - that I have the experience and the judgment to lead this country and that I have been the one who is presidential," the senator said. "Obviously that will help me as we get down in the last few weeks before the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire primary, Michigan and South Carolina primaries and the Florida primary."

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Associated Press Writers Andrew Miga in Washington and Brendan Farrington in Fort Myers, Fla., contributed to this report.

Ahaha, awesome.

How long ago was he claiming "Ill always be a Democrat" What nonsense. How long ago was it when the DEMOCRATS booted him out and tried to get someone else elected? They brought it upon themselves.

Perfect! Rino & Dino!

OswaldTheOsprey

Your brown nose comment about Senator Clinton suggests you believe I might be a supporter which is hardly correct, but Hillary did support Joe's candidacy and Bill actually campaigned for him.  Shall I pull up those articles? 

Was CNN incorrect with their reporting in 2006?

Looks like an GOP election of Joe to me.

VOTE BY PARTY ID
TOTAL                Lieberman    Lamont    Schlesinger
Democrat  (38%)     33%    65%    2%
Republican (26%)    70%    8%     21%
Independent (36%)  54%           35%    10%

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/CT/S/01/epolls.0.html

I couldn't agree more with your comments about Reid and thought I suggested  something similar,  but Joe is at the very least a piece of excretement of the lowest kind who IMHO, owes his total allegience only to AIPAC and would be far better suited to  Likud and the Knesset than the U.S. Senate.

LOL, am I now to be identified as anti-Semitic? 

I'm hardly surprised by Lieberman's choice it makes good sense for a Senator who by and large is a  loyal Repug, while continuing to caucus with the Democrats who've not shown the good sense to send him packing. 

And why not John?  He can use the help.  I even voted for him in 2000 in the CA open primary of that year to try to keep Bush off the ticket.

Much as I find the invasion and occupation of Iraq or the debacle in the desert (take your pick) the worst foreign policy error since Vietnam, I actually have considerable respect for McCain compared to the rest of the GOP "midgets" on the ticket.  Had he not chosen make his move to the rabid, religious right, sucked up to Dubya in the process and remained the "straight talker" I once believed him to be, he might have actually been a choice for me as there is no one running on the other side of the ticket I'm enamored of, but then that is no longer the case because of his choices. 

I held my nose and voted for Gore, but at that point, Joe was playing a different
game.  Not having him in the position of attempting to run as an incumbant Veep may be the only positive factor in losing that election. He waffles at least as bad and Reid. I'm one of those people who actually check voting records. I also find the Lieberman/Kyl Amendment to the Defense Authorization is as repugnant as it gets with Hillary's vote for it one more reason not to support Senator Clinton.

   

Okay, the gloves are coming off right now.
DON'T YOU EVER EVER EVER INSULT ME LIKE THAT AGAIN. A supporter of violence who goes to war with a keyboard? The fact is you don't know jack about me. And the reality is, I'd be in the military right this god damn minute if I did not have health issues beyond my control.
You should pull your head out of your ignorant ass right this god damn instance as half of your posts don't even make sense.

Take another sip of the kool-aid wench

knock it off