Kristol: Lieberman’s Liberal Bashing Makes Him A Good Choice For Vice President
Kristol: Lieberman’s Liberal Bashing Makes Him A Good Choice For Vice President
On Sunday night, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) gave the Norman Podhoretz Lecture at the annual dinner of the Commentary Fund, in which he claimed that the “Democratic party has completely lost its way on foreign policy.” The speech — and an “adapted” version of it published in the Wall Street Journal today — was enthusiastically received by conservatives across the board.
Conservatives were so pleased with Lieberman’s broadside against his former colleagues that they are now reviving talk of him as vice presidential choice for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
In an editorial yesterday, the New York Sun concluded from the Commentary speech that Lieberman “would be a fabulous running mate for Mr. McCain.” On Fox And Friends this morning, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol concurred with the Sun, saying that “after seeing Joe Lieberman’s speech Sunday night,” he really wonders whether McCain will pick him. Watch it:
This isn’t the first time that a Lieberman speech attacking liberals has inspired Kristol to suggest him for vice president.
In Nov. 2007, after Lieberman lashed out at “left-wing blogs,” Kristol penned a Weekly Standard editorial declaring that the eventual Republican nominee should “offer him the vice presidency.” Former Bush adviser Peter Wehner quickly endorsed Kristol’s thinking on the National Review’s blog, calling it “an intriguing idea” that would “scramble the political chessboard.”
In January, McCain appeared open to the idea of picking Lieberman, telling the Wall Street Journal that “he’d be a great partner in any endeavor.”
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Much to our chagrin, Joe LIE already has been on a ticket for VP.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:51 amwups… romney better get on the stick!
May 21st, 2008 at 11:52 amhe’s got some catchin’ up to do!
Liberal and change are a real threat to the righties. Amusing!
May 21st, 2008 at 11:53 amGee, if Mr. Bill Kristol says it, it must be right. Right?
Oh……. you mean he has never been right about anything he has ever said in the past? OK, My Bad.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:55 amAmerica’s version of Pravda at it again.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:55 amGrampy McSane needs his own personal ‘Dick’ to tell him what to say.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:55 amYou righties can have him. He didn’t do us much good as a VP candidate and certainly not since. Let him be Loserman for both parties, then maybe he’ll drift away into political oblivion.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:57 amYes, the Lieberman will end up on the ticket with McCain. One could have seen that coming since Lieberman’s great switch to being an independent. This will by McCain’s proof that he is bipartisan and no longer associated with the partisan politics of the past.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:00 pmIf one of the criteria for being Vice President is the approval of Bill Kristol… God help this nation
May 21st, 2008 at 12:01 pmSo according to this jerk, the criteria for a good VP is that he bashes/smears liberals? How pathetic.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:02 pmMy little love-note to all the Neocon/PNAC leg-humpers:
Please, quielty, just go DieNow, ForPeace sake.
Where the hell is the next Jim Jones when you need him?
May 21st, 2008 at 12:06 pmTwo thoughts:
1) “scrambling the political chessboard” is the only prayer the Republicans have. Chaos, confusion, disarray… these are friends of those who realize that what they’re doing now ain’t working.
2) I kind of look forward to Turncoat Joe going down in history as the only candidate ever to run for Vice-President for both parties AND LOSE.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:16 pmThis proves exactly what I’ve been saying about Joe Lieberman for years. He’s really a Republican who fools the voters by telling them he’s a Democrat. Apparently the voters of Conn. are too stupid to figure it out. How can you continually vote for a man who doesn’t have your best interest at heart? The voters in his district need to wake up and heed my advice. Don’t reelect Lieberman if you want a real Democrat vote for Ned Lamont. How do you go from being the Vice Presidential nominee of your party to being a traitor in 8 years? Easy, just put Israel’s interest ahead of your country. Joe Lieberman is a Jew first and American second. There’s nothing wrong with being Jewish, but to put a foreign country ahead of your own is treason.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pmIt’s a brilliant suggestion since we all now that Lieberman has a wonderful and successful track record running as a VP. Go Joe, Go!
May 21st, 2008 at 12:18 pmCorrection: ….since we *know* that….
May 21st, 2008 at 12:18 pmThe chaos plan hasnt worked out well at all. Reading conservative sites [such as Malkins] they see both McCain and Lieberman as liberals. They have even started repeating the slogan ‘The change we deserve’ for allowing McCain to become the Republican nominee for president.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:19 pmWow, what a set to pick from:
Romnutz, Huckster and LieforIsraelbernam.
Bring em on.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:19 pmDear Connecticut,
Please stay out of politics.
Sincerely,
May 21st, 2008 at 12:20 pmAmerica
RU; it sounds like you described the 3 stooges.
nyuk, nyuk, nyuk
May 21st, 2008 at 12:21 pmmy apologies to Larry, Moe, & Curly
May 21st, 2008 at 12:22 pmMcCain and Lieberman
May 21st, 2008 at 12:27 pmIraq and Vietnam
Vote for them if you don’t give a damn
About the future of being an American
I say that if McCain wants Lieberman, let him have the guy. Lieberman has already betrayed one group that he befriended, so why woudn’t you trust him?
I’m sure that the Republicans will be thrilled to vote for a guy with an 80 ADA rating to be next in line to the oldest president ever.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:28 pmHow would a McCain/Lieberman ticket talk about how Lieberman had actually already won the popular vote for VP once already?
I think that issue would be just too damned confusing to handle, so they’ll avoid it by not nominating Lieberman.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pmOf course, anytime William the Bloody opens his pie hole, you’ve got to consider the source.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pm.
McTorture and the LIARman…
I sense a major defeat for the two,
.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:31 pmIf Lieberman did run with McCain and then they both lost does that mean that Lieberman would lose his current seat? (Because that would be great)
Please excuse my political dumbness on this matter in advance.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:32 pmWow - first time I’ve ever agreed with Bill Kristol on anything.
Lieberman, a war hawk with liberal positons on social issues, would no doubt enrage the hard-core conservative base even more than McCain does, and keep evangelicals home in November in record numbers.
I say we make this happen.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:32 pmAs Samuel Clements once said, the difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. When it comes to the Republican Party the Lunatics have, indeed, taken over the asylum.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pmImpeach Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
On Sunday night, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) gave the Norman Podhoretz Lecture at the annual dinner of the Commentary Fund, in which he claimed that the “Democratic party has completely lost its way on foreign policy.”
Bush’s foreign policy has been a complete failure. We’re involved in a war that a clear majority of Americans feel was a mistake, and it’s the Democrats that have lost their way? What color is the sky in Lieberman’s world?
http://progressiveworldreview.com
May 21st, 2008 at 12:35 pmHow did LIARman go from a respectable Gore partner to a despicable McAncient underling?
May 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm@ 26, Mary sez: If Lieberman did run with McCain and then they both lost does that mean that Lieberman would lose his current seat? (Because that would be great)
Please excuse my political dumbness on this matter in advance.
Holy Joe ‘won’ his seat last, and infamously, in 2006. Bombin’ Johnnie was re-elected in 04, both of them are sagfely sinecured at the public trough even if they lose in Nov…
May 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pmOf course the same is true for both BHO and HRC; interestingly, none of ‘em actually risked very much to run, at least in a material sense…
I really believe Loserman (I-Judea) has been a GOPNAIPAC mole in the Dim party since he unseated Lowell Weicker…
May 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pmUnfortunately, no. Lieberman was re-elected in 2006 and his seat won’t be up again until 2012. But it would sure as hell make it hard for him to convince Connecticut voters to re-elect him.
I’m all for Joe as McCain’s running mate, it’d force Reid to finally kick him out of his chairmanship.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pmLieberman on the McCain ticket would make this the most hilarious election ever. Please let this happen.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pmGore picked Lieberman in 2000 for one reason, deliver Florida. He couldn’t even do that.
Plus, Lieberman is not a fit on the social issues that are so central to conservatives that are already only luke warm to McCain. Should Obama pick someone like Wes Clark or Jim Webb then Lieberman has no upside for McCain.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:58 pmGiven that US foreign policy is directed by the President and for the last seven years our President’s policies have resulted in two interminable ongoing wars, record debt to foreign countries (some of which are dubious ‘allies’), continued trade deficits, loss of global leadership in dozens of industries and services and the loss of moral and political credibility with most of world’s nations, I can’t quite see how the 15-month old Democratic House majority has been able to “lose its way” on a foreign policy over which it has no direct control.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:06 pmThanks tokin librul and anonymousryan - apparently I was indulging in a moment of wishful thinking.
I’m not sure I like the idea of a military person as Obama’s running mate though. I’m not comfortable with politics mixed with the military (or religion but that’s another story). But, then again, apparently I’m not thinking too straight today.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:19 pmmary Says:
Thanks tokin librul and anonymousryan - apparently I was indulging in a moment of wishful thinking.
I’m not sure I like the idea of a military person as Obama’s running mate though. I’m not comfortable with politics mixed with the military (or religion but that’s another story). But, then again, apparently I’m not thinking too straight today.
Terry Gross interviewed Webb on Fresh Air yesterday, and if you can find the transcript or a recording I highly recommend it. Webb comes across as highly intelligent, very thoughtful, and with his heart in the right place. He believes, with very good reason, that the Democratic Party needs to focus on economic issues, including equity (CEO salaries vs working salaries, for example) because they’re critical to the country and also strategically appropriate for the election. He’s been a strong opponent to the invasion of Iraq while maintaining a great deal of credibility in regard to the military, which Obama is going to need in the general election.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:23 pmBrilliant Billy. LIEberman voted against the flag desecration amendment, against the anti-gay marriage amendment, gets an F from the NRA and oh, by the way for the sake of the southern rednecks who now form your party’s base, is a Jew. Aside from his routine sellout to the pharma industry G.I. Joe’s most Republican selling point is his blind support for a catastrophic foreign policy/military error that the vast majority of the voters want to end. Add in the fact that the guy is only five years younger than McCain and has the charisma of a corpse and you have the most boneheaded veep choice since . . . Joe LIEberman in 2000.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:45 pmWe can only pray that MyCane chooses him. Joe is a born MUSH. This would guarantee a GOP loss come November.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:03 pmDo It!
Do It!
Do It!
Jospeh Lieberman and J.McCain who sponsered The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998…which lead later to a war in Iraq under Bush in 2003,according to PNAC plans
May 21st, 2008 at 2:08 pmNo surprise there…
Few years later, Lieberman/Kyle bill was introduced by Joe Lieberman and was passed by the Senate to give Bush the authority to start another war in Iran.
Hillary Clinton voted for the bill.
Any surprise that NeoCon Bill Kristol is so happy to spread the word about Joe Lieberman selection…
Sorry…
May 21st, 2008 at 2:13 pma Typo: Joseph and not Jospeh
I can see the bumper stickers now: McSame/Loserman 2008. And the campaign slogan can be: Not good enough in 2000, still not good enough now!
May 21st, 2008 at 2:17 pmI can’t *wait* to see that betraying asshat LIEberman get kicked to the curb by BOTH parties - and it WILL happen.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pmPLEASE PLEASE!!!!
Pick George McLieberman for VP PLEEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEEEEE!!!
Please.
RIP
May 21st, 2008 at 3:13 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Just fabulous! But you’ll have to get him a make-over, those dowdy plain-jane suits and ties just won’t do! Maybe get him an earring and you know, a cravat or at least a turtleneck! Lavender comes to mind, it is such a fabulous color! I can just see him now, strutting next to McCain and whispering corrections into the man’s ear.
[Disclaimer: the previous attempt at sarcasm was in no way meant to disparage the GLBT population. It just seemed a natural follow-on to the quote.]
May 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pmYeah, McSenile!!!
Choose LIEberman.
Obama by a margin of 30!!
May 21st, 2008 at 4:22 pmIt’s not about democrats ” losing their way” it’s joe Maoman is disappointed that the Democrat party hasn’t drank the NEOCON KOOL-AID and that there is opposition to the WAR MONGERING agenda the neocons like Michael ledeen have laid out , along with Cheney , kristol and the bush crime family .
May 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pmJoe Maoman wants everybody to jump on board the NEOCON EXPRESS , as his close friend Michael Ledeen wrote , ” Total War on the Middle East ” , supporting them on their BLOODY conquest of the middle east . No Joe, we don’t want any part of your MURDEROUS rampage , no bloody Joe , we want no part of your MURDEROUS RAMPAGE .
Now COMPLICIT CNN is questioning OBAMA ” toughness ” repeating Right wing accusations , but interesting ly they wON’T question whether or not McCain / Joe Maoman are recklessly aggressive with their WAR MONGERING .
TWO old white guys. Yeah, that’s the ticket! Holy Joe can see the Landslide coming. This is his last hurrah. After the election, Harry R. will dump him into the “other” column, and Joe Lie will be just another backbencher with no power and nobody to listen. CT deserved better, but they voted for the wrong guy.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:30 pmYES!! McCain/Lieberman ‘08. We all know what an asset he was to the Democratic ticket in 2000; gotta know he’ll be just as effective running with McCain.
I remember a debate between Smokin’ Joe & cheney - Cheney blatantly stated that he’d never benefitted (financially) from the Federal government (at the time he was CEO of Haliburton, which now OWNS the federal government). Joe did not dispute the claim.
Match made in Heaven - Rapture, anyone?
May 21st, 2008 at 6:38 pmPatrick Says:
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Lieberman on the McCain ticket would make this the most hilarious election ever. Please let this happen.
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i agree patrick - stadler and waldorf in the whitehouse!!! - but i think there are already too many muppets there
May 21st, 2008 at 8:04 pmUnggawa, looks like more Jews on bad drugs.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:35 pm