Praise for Joe Lieberman.

http://www.economist.com/World/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5305064

Clinton with a conscience

The hardliners in the Democratic Party no doubt regard this as an even bigger betrayal—a Republican-lite policy that will lead the Democrats to disaster. But Mr Lieberman has been a persistent critic of Republican positions on gun control and the environment, and he wants to raise taxes on the rich while lowering them on the middle class. His policies offer a much better recipe for Democratic success than the party\'s left. Like Mr Clinton in the 1990s, he understands that, as long as there are roughly twice as many conservatives as liberals, the Democrats will never win by appealing to their base, and they will certainly lose if they reinforce the public\'s suspicion that they are a bunch of cut-and-run, soft-on-defence doves.

Mr Lieberman is arguably the last surviving example of a peculiar Washington species: the Wise Man who is willing to put party allegiance aside when it comes to big issues such as foreign policy. Figures like Vandenburg and Henry Stimson, who Mr Lieberman also mentioned in his speech, were commonplace during the second world war and the cold war. Pat Moynihan, Sam Nunn and Henry “Scoop” Jackson all preserved the wise man tradition in the Democratic Party. But today Mr Lieberman is almost alone in realising that there is more at stake in Iraq than just partisan advantage in the 2006 and 2008 elections.

A man of principles and common sense. A sweet dream it would be to have Lieberman and McCain together in the White House. The country would for once head towards the right direction.

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McCain would make an awesmoe president. We need a good moderate. I don\'t know too much about Lieberman but according to that article, he seems pretty good. Maybe those two together would make a good team.

Lieberman hates video games and wrestling.

Tough trade off. ;]

-Dan

I don\'t mind McCain, but Lieberman is a pompus ass.

John "Gooks" McCain will never get the support of his party\'s base and neither would Leiberman.  Without that neither can succeed.  Many in the GOP label McCain a RINO (Republican In Name Only).

Personally I like Guiliani

McCain will be the next US President... mark them words.


EDIT:  He is also the best economist of the bunch

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Originally posted by Eiksirf
Lieberman hates video games and wrestling.

Tough trade off. ;]

-Dan

But what can he really do about both? Neither can really be banned and regulations will only go so far until people begin to complain.

Lieberman\'s a turd.

McCain\'s a pussy.

Hilary Clinton all the way.

now it\'s blatantly clear you are just trying to get a rise out of people....

right...?  :omg:

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Lieberman? Clinton!?!?!?

Jesus, did I just stumble into a thread full of minority women on SSI?

It\'s becoming more and more possible as times passes that MA governor Mitt Romney will run for the Republicans. I\'d be pretty happy about that and would definitely vote for him, but what I\'d be more happy about is if Lieberman got the nom for the Democrats.

It\'s true, moderation is good. Less to worry about come election time (in my biased opinion) if one guy is a conservative and the other a moderate..