Joe Lieberman endorses Susan Collins, appears in ad for her in Maine
Source: NBC News
WASHINGTON Joe Lieberman, a former U.S senator and the 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate, endorsed Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on Wednesday.
Lieberman is also appearing in an ad for Collins as she faces perhaps the toughest race of her career.
"I'm a lifelong Democrat but I put my country first, always. That's why I'm supporting Susan Collins for Senate," Lieberman, a Democrat turned independent, said in the ad, which is paid for by the Republican Jewish Coalition.
RJC is spending $400,000 to run the ad on digital platforms, aimed at persuading women voters in Maine, according to the group's spokesman Neil Strauss. Lieberman called Collins "a fighter for women's issues" in the ad.
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This is disgusting, I'm ashamed that he was my Senator decades ago and I may have voted for him (forget it was so long ago)
Hopefully this has a negative effect on Collins' campaign.
AZ8theist
(5,487 posts)DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)what a low life.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Lieberman was a rat bastard then, and hes a rat bastard now. I console myself with the firm belief that his endorsement means absolutely nothing ... to anyone.
-Laelth
IronLionZion
(45,496 posts)because of Clinton's scandal.
I know, there are so many better candidates Gore could have chosen and won big. Lieberman was a mistake.
I don't understand the constant pivot to the center right that was embraced by Democratic strategists since Reagan. I guess it was to present a ticket that had something for everyone. Maybe it works sometimes. Biden was a calculated foil to the scary black man preaching hope and change. That worked pretty well, but Lieberman was/is a, to quote you, rat bastard.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Instead Holy Joe weaseled his way in there.
LisaM
(27,820 posts)What bugged me about him was that in 2000, he enthusiastically endorsed late military ballots being counted in Florida (which of course would have tended Republican). I was looking this up recently, and if memory serves, about 1500-1700 late military ballots were accepted. This had nothing to do with the postmark - they were cast after the election and no one would say boo about it.
Then, when he (deservedly) lost the Democratic primary in 2002, he put himself on the ballot anyway. It still maddens me that he cared more about his own losing efforts in 2002 than the ballot I cast in 2000 where he actually won the election!
Lieberman did not deserve Al Gore's faith in him. He really let down the side.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Big splashy stage appearance with the two of them raising clasped hand in triumph...
Then poof.
Gore picked that mealy mouthed looser, Lie-berman.
Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)It's an all-too-familiar strategy.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)for a couple months? We really didn't, because Lieberman was one of the 60 -- and he opposed a public option.
If it weren't for Lieberman we'd have one today.
MurrayDelph
(5,300 posts)is/was a lobbyist for insurance companies.
He was looking out for his own interests.
jpak
(41,758 posts)But I'm sure it will induce vomiting.
Yup
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)dhill926
(16,351 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...to help Sarah Gideon.
BlueMTexpat
(15,370 posts)SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Would suck if she who will not be named gets reelected.
Escurumbele
(3,401 posts)I have never liked the guy, he is the best example of a two-faced person. Country 1st, yes sure...
I wonder if that endorsement is any good anyway, not sure Joe Lieberman is a respected politician.
JHB
(37,161 posts)It was the pond he was swimming in, so that was the thing to call himself to get stuff he wanted.
Transactional. Nothing deeper than that.
rampartc
(5,432 posts)or is he protected by being a democratic party member?
2naSalit
(86,748 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....help republicans retain their majority in the Senate, he's no friend of Democrats.
DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)I have learned here on DU that ANY questioning of a Democrat is subject to DU censoring the comment........
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Response to DENVERPOPS (Reply #29)
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SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)AZ8theist
(5,487 posts)He left the party IMMEDIATELY after being ousted in the primary for senate.
A spineless worm.
Polybius
(15,465 posts)I've seen bashing of Andrew Jackson a lot. Zell Miller also got ripped apart here 16 years ago.
2naSalit
(86,748 posts)dalton99a
(81,566 posts)Lieberman a member of the board of the organization that DeVos founded, the American Federation of Children talked about DeVos in glowing terms and said she has helped hundreds of thousands of children.
She is disciplined, organized, knows how to set goals and then develop practical plans to achieve them. She is really a purpose-driven team builder, he said. He noted that the Department of Education is bigger than anything she or virtually all of the senators on the panel had ever run but said she is ready to take on the task.
And then, he said: I know that some people are questioning her qualifications to be secretary of education, and too many of those questions seem to me to be based on the fact that she doesnt come from within the education establishment. But honestly I believe that today, thats one of the most important qualifications you could have for this job.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/01/17/joe-lieberman-disses-the-entire-education-establishment-at-betsy-devoss-confirmation-hearing/
DENVERPOPS
(8,844 posts)would be Double-Agent??????????
He did massive damage to the Dems, it is not surprising to see his endorsement of any Republican, especially a threatened RepubliCON Senator..........
He loves attention, and if the Dems won't give it to him, he will sell out to the RepubliCONs and continue waging war against the Dems for not glamorizing him........
He is fishing for a Trump administration appointment.......LOL
ResistantAmerican17
(3,811 posts)Auggie
(31,178 posts)Yeah, I hope this has a negative effect on Collins' campaign too.
LudwigPastorius
(9,164 posts)buy into Medicare early.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/senate-democrats-drop-public-option-woo-lieberman-and-liberals-howl
To not put too fine a point on it, fuck him sideways.
marybourg
(12,633 posts)Just like Palin is the reason we didnt have a President McCain. Otherwise good candidates showing their vulnerability to making poor decisions . I, and many other dems, including the current Dem Senator of my state, did not vote for Gore because of his choice of Lieberman. It was clear to me then, just as its clear now, that Lieberman was a covert publican.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)He was and is a snake.
Budi
(15,325 posts)He was an Independant. Neither here nor there. No loyalty.
But when the opportunity presented itself to serve his own politucal agenda, counter to the tenats of the Democratic Party, Joe Leiberman slithered in as though he'd been one "his whole life".
He was always a self serving grifter.
He was always a Dem in name only.
Never trust the word of an Independant nor a Republican.
George II
(67,782 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)That 'Independant' would remain in a minority box, had they not eventually saw a way to grift off the strength & numbers of the Democratic Party.
George II
(67,782 posts)...some new "party" (CT for Lieberman) but didn't register it right away. Someone else did, set up the "party" (he was the only member) and refused to allow him to join.
I think he still used it on the ballot though.
Budi
(15,325 posts)It obviously went nowhere, but just for the sake of cautionary history, what'd he call it?
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Until I found Joe Lieberman had joined as one the leaders.
benld74
(9,909 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)He has no moral compass either.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)on the basis of an endorsement by JOE LIEBERMAN.
Ritabert
(669 posts)Lieberman has no influence over anything.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)Politicalgolfer
(317 posts)This will have no effect. Dems here detest him. Repubs detest him because he was a Dem & Dem VP nominee, and Independents never paid any attention to the little vermin! The ads out against Collins are absolutely beautiful!!!! She's going to be toast!
PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)But not this big of an asshole. I need to go back to Asshole University to sharpen my assholery detection skills.
hadEnuf
(2,208 posts)That Vichy bastard is still involved in politics?
Might as well be an endorsement from the GOP.
ffr
(22,671 posts)What a fuckstick!
oasis
(49,398 posts)in the driver's seat.
SpankMe
(2,963 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)typical Republican move. Bring them out from storage, dust them off, and pull the string. Does it ever work?
hlthe2b
(102,331 posts)being exposed as the author of a very racist book?
Me.
(35,454 posts)VA_Jill
(9,992 posts)but fuck him and the elephant he rode in on.
Hassler
(3,384 posts)PatSeg
(47,560 posts)That's why he endorsed McCain in 2008 and campaigned for him. He is however a lifelong snake.
patphil
(6,196 posts)I don't think so.
Lieberman sucked as a Senator, and he hasn't changed.
Note the first 3 letters of his last name are LIE.
SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)Javaman
(62,532 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)They can get flushed together.
Joe Lieberman helped win Florida for Al Gore. Too bad he denied it and hopped right into BushCo's pocket as soon as he could.
HuskyOffset
(890 posts)Fuck him right in his Susan Collins. With a Trump.
LisaM
(27,820 posts)Has he forgotten the "Lieberman for America" party? And wasn't he identified as an Independent in the Senate?
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)They deserve each other.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Why does anyone care what he has to say anyway? He needs to just slip away into oblivion and enjoy his retirement... IN SILENCE!
George II
(67,782 posts)JI7
(89,260 posts)bringthePaine
(1,730 posts)samsingh
(17,600 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)No, you're NOT!
Paladin
(28,269 posts)Either remove yourself from public exposure or die, and do it quickly.
sdfernando
(4,937 posts)Rebl2
(13,539 posts)is Lieberman a Democrat and hasnt been for years. Its laughable that he said she has fought for womens rights. Maybe when she first became a senator, but not anymore.
Penn Voter
(247 posts)Lieberman is going to send Collins some JOEMENTUM!!
Skittles
(153,174 posts)I have never been able to stand him. YUCK.
oldsoftie
(12,584 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)he's an irrelevant ass who is endorsring another irrelevant ass. I am sure Susan Collins is concerned.
cstanleytech
(26,314 posts)yardwork
(61,693 posts)hopeforchange2008
(610 posts)dchill
(38,516 posts)No. Just no.