Text 37175, 60 rader
Skriven 2006-08-22 12:28:00 av BOB KLAHN (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROY WITT
Ärende: Lieberman and OBL
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 BK>>>> With the republican voters. After all, even the republican party
 BK>>>> says they won't support their own nominee. So, no matter what,
 BK>>>> you get a democrat in the Senate. Turn over enough seats and the
 BK>>>> democrats get to organize the Senate. Lieberman has already said
 BK>>>> he will caucus with the democrats.

 BK>>>> Above all else, this is the race the republicans can't afford to
 BK>>>> lose. If Lieberman loses, it will be a disaster for the
 BK>>>> republicans. If Lieberman wins by a narrow margin, with all that
 BK>>>> republican money and suport, it will send republicans running
 BK>>>> for cover. If Lieberman wins by a good margin, the democrats
 BK>>>> still get a senate seat.

 FS>>> Bob, as is so-often the case, you have things *backwards*!
 FS>>> Lieberman's current popularity is a grievous blow to the
 FS>>> Democrats.  Even if he *does* caucus with the Dems in the
 FS>>> Congress they'll never be able to trust him.  He'll probably
 FS>>> switch parties after he returns to the Congress.

 BK>>  If he runs as an independent, if there is even the chance he
 BK>>  will switch parties, then the democrats can't trust him anyway.

 RW> Which they don't already. Somehow I don't see how a
 RW> legitimate polictical party can stab a person in the back,

 You mean like the Republicans stabbed McCain in the back?

 No political party stabbed Lieberman in the back. The voters
 chose another candidate after Lieberman stabbed the democratic
 party, and their presidential nominee, in the back.

 Holding office through a party does not confer lifetime support.
 Lieberman has turned against the principles the democratic party
 supports. His choice. That's what elections are all about.

 RW> especially one who ran as a Presidential candidate just two
 RW> years ago.

 Anyone can *RUN* as a presidential candidate. Lieberman was more
 interested in Lieberman than in America, it would seem.

 McCain ran as a presidential candidate 6 years ago. Bush's
 people smeared is family. How are the republicans not much
 worse?

 RW> But thus is the nature of the far left liberal Democratic party...

 Thus is the current temper of the American people. Remember, 75%
 of the troops in the field in Iraq support the timetable for
 withdrawal that Lieberman so arrogantly disdains.

 Or do you consider the troops in the field to be "far left"?


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... G. W. Bush aspires to be Bill Clinton, so daddy will spend time with him.
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