How should traitor Democrats be treated after they endorsed McCain?

[AndrewP]

When Joe Lieberman returned to the Senate after Election Day, the question among many Democrats was not whether he would be punished but how. Some colleagues thought he should be stripped of his committee chairmanships. Others advocated booting him from the caucus entirely. Bloggers on the left all but proposed that he be tarred and feathered, live on C-SPAN. Ultimately, Lieberman got off with a slap on the wrist.

But what about the rest of those "McCain Democrats"? Like Lieberman, few of them are suffering. Maybe it's because Obama himself says he is uninterested in partisan payback. Or maybe it's because winners can afford to be gracious. Whatever the reason, most Dems who endorsed McCain have managed to patch things up with friends and fans. "I don't think people have been lording it over me," says former Rhode Island state Sen. David Carlin, who endorsed McCain in May 2008 in an article in Commonweal. "It's not as if I've been going to bed weeping every night."



http://www.slate.com/id/2208113/

[notesdev]

1. They should be

pitied.

[Joe the Liberal]

2. They SHOULD be punished..........

but they won't, with people like Reid and Pelosi all they walk away with is a slap on the wrist.

[Kaleko]

3. Marinated and roasted over a pit

until done?

Just a thought.

[stillcool]

4. It would be nice if the people who elected them..

had a voice, or used their own.

[sam sarrha]

5. shun them, cut them off, finance someone to run in their place next election

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

6. Don't you think that a FORMER RI STATE Sen has essentially been punished enough?

Do you have any idea of the amount of effort it takes to become a FORMER RI STATE SENATOR?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. Hang the bastards! nt

[Idealism]

8. Who besides Lieberman (who isn't even a Democrat, technically)

endorsed McCain that is in the Senate?

[TheKentuckian]

11. I thought the rank and file were being talked about here

the masses/aka a few reds, 7 of the 13 PUMAS, the remaining "Reagan Democrats" that keep buying snake oil, and whatever other jackass supposed Democrats that voted McCain.

[endlessfugue]

9. We could pelt them with rocks and garbage n/t

[muntrv]

10. They should wear "DINO" on their foreheads.