It's hard to call Joe Lieberman a democrat these days. He has sounded more and more like a republican in recent years. He supported the war in Iraq, endorsed John McCain in the 2008 presidential election and, as of this writing, is currently holding up the health care reform bill in the senate, a bill that democrats need to pass while they have a majority, based on his opposition to a public option insurance plan. For most democrats, Joe Lieberman might as well be on the other side of the aisle. Perhaps it's because he hasn't been cool enough for them recently. His own former running mate, Al Gore, endorsed Howard Dean over Lieberman for the presidency in 2004. He lost the primary election as an incumbent senator 4 years later, still managing to cling on to the seat as an independent. The first 30 years of his political career were hardly exciting. A state senator in Connecticut for 10 years, state attorney general shortly thereafter before defeating an unpopular republican, Lowell Weicker, to become a U.S senator in 1989. He was respectable enough to be selected as Gore's Vice Presidential running mate in 2000. However, his initial and continued support for the Iraq war cost him enough credibility among democrats in 2004, who began to view him as a republican in democrat clothing. After he lost the 2008 primary, he won the general election with the help of republicans. Since then, he's become something of a kidney stone for the democrats, a perpetual spoiler in a sharply partisan Senate, going as far as reversing his past positions in order to block legislation. A political Benedict Arnold.
It's hard to call Joe Lieberman a democrat these days. He has sounded more and more like a republican in recent years. He supported the war in Iraq, endorsed John McCain in the 2008 presidential election and, as of this writing, is currently holding up the health care reform bill in the senate, a bill that democrats need to pass while they have a majority, based on his opposition to a public option insurance plan. For most democrats, Joe Lieberman might as well be on the other side of the aisle. Perhaps it's because he hasn't been cool enough for them recently. His own former running mate, Al Gore, endorsed Howard Dean over Lieberman for the presidency in 2004. He lost the primary election as an incumbent senator 4 years later, still managing to cling on to the seat as an independent. The first 30 years of his political career were hardly exciting. A state senator in Connecticut for 10 years, state attorney general shortly thereafter before defeating an unpopular republican, Lowell Weicker, to become a U.S senator in 1989. He was respectable enough to be selected as Gore's Vice Presidential running mate in 2000. However, his initial and continued support for the Iraq war cost him enough credibility among democrats in 2004, who began to view him as a republican in democrat clothing. After he lost the 2008 primary, he won the general election with the help of republicans. Since then, he's become something of a kidney stone for the democrats, a perpetual spoiler in a sharply partisan Senate, going as far as reversing his past positions in order to block legislation. A political Benedict Arnold.