NYT/AP: Lieberman Files Papers to Get on Ballot

[DeepModem Mom]

Lieberman Files Papers to Get on Ballot
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 9, 200

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Sen. Joe Lieberman's campaign filed two boxes of petitions Wednesday morning expected to secure a place for the three-term senator's name on the November ballot as a third party candidate. Hours earlier, Lieberman conceded the Democratic primary to an anti-war businessman.

''I'm definitely going forward,'' Lieberman told The Associated Press. ''I feel that I closed strong in the primary. I feel we began to get our message across strongly and we're going to keep on going."

''This race is going to be all about who can get more done and who can be a better representative of Connecticut.''

Lieberman said his campaign has collected more than 18,000 signatures on its petitions, more than twice the number needed to get on the fall ballot under the new party created, called Connecticut for Lieberman.

The new party allows him to secure a position higher on the ballot than he would have if he petitioned as an individual. If enough signatures are approved, as expected, it set up a three-way race with Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont, who won the Democratic primary with about 52 percent of the vote to Lieberman's 48 percent, and Republican Alan Schlesinger....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Primary-Elections.html

[Punkingal]

1. What an egotistical asshole!

It's all about him, not about America. :mad:

[Retrograde]

15. just like in 2000

I lost most respect for Lieberman when he simultaneously ran for VP and Senator, making sure that Joe had a job whatever happened. I voted for Gore anyway.

Now, I think he's living up to the name Sore Loserman. If he's going around publicly saying he's no longer a Democrat, the party should reciprocate and severe all ties with him.

[Puglover]

2. The arrogance and entitlement of this

indescribable asshat is simply not believable.

[bigscott]

4. sort of wish

he had put up that kind of fight in 2000 when we could have had President Gore keep this country on the right track - FUCK YOU JOE - time to GO AWAY

[kurth]

3. Why didn't he name it the "Connecticut for Truth" Party

Pro-American Joe is always for truth and justice.

[bluedog]

5. can't take losing like a man???????

[msongs]

6. "..the new party.." - that means joe MUST resign from the dems -

as being a rep for a new political party means he is kaput with the dems.

in this case, being stripped of position is appropriate now.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[MaineDem]

7. That's what I was wondering

It seems he can no longer be a Democrat. Puts the leadership in a sticky situation.

[cc488is]

9. Wonder who he will caucus with

in the Senate?

[tabasco]

12. Nobody.

He's not going to win.

Too bad for the chickenhawks of the world!

[cc488is]

13. I mean for the remainder of his term...

[MrCoffee]

8. Worst.Loser.Ever.

Loser. Wanker. Tosser. Jackass. Wanker. Loser. Loser. Loser.

Does this make him a worse loser than El Dicktator in 2000? Me thinks it do.

[54anickel]

10. They sure are trying to label Lamont the "anti-war businessman".n/t

[Az_lefty]

11. fuck you loserman!

if this ass-hat causes a Repug to win in Nov then every one of those damn Senators that went into Ct to support old Joe needs to be defeated! Fuck'em all! :grr:

[dubyaD40web]

14. We MUST frame him now!

Joe is running AGAINST the Democratic party! We cannot take this!

[Biernuts]

16. So if Joe wins and is the difference between Dem & Rep Senate

Control, will DUers urge him to stay Democrat or go packing & join the other side?

He's likely to win the general. If he does, why should he reward Reid & Schumer?

[mdelaguna2000]

17. I cannot believe he was Al Gore's running mate

didn't know as much about him then as I do now. Good grief, what a traitor to his party.

[Occulus]

19. When I heard Gore had picked Lieberman,

I had a major premonition of loss for Gore. So did other people, but we were all shouted down as being "intolerant" of his "religion". We were given the 90% voting record pap. We were assured he was a "good Democrat".

I had already come to a different conclusion; I guess too few people liked video games of all sorts to care about his Talibornagain stance on them. I saw that waaaaaayyyyyyy back, years and years ago, and do you know something? It's issues like that- where the moralizing, judgemental side of religious character comes out- that paint a person's true colors.

If he'd really been a Democrat, he would never have acted like a whore for 'moral standards' the way he did, and has been. I think we can say it's the one issue he's been totally consistent on aside from the Iraq war... it's just too bad it was an issue that wasn't popular with more people.

All these years, he's taken a moralizing, judgemental, I-don't-know-wtf-you-crazy-kids-see-in-these, I'll-decide-what's-good-entertainment stance on this, and almost nobody noticed. But it's "moral standards" positions like this one that should have clued his voters in a long, long time ago. My conclusion: he's a mole, and has been for quite a long time.

I've never liked Lieberman. I've thought he was pretty much a schmuck from day one. Now, we all know he is.

Sometimes, it's good to be right. I just wish this had happened a long time ago.

[KoKo]

20. And now you know why many of us blame him for Bush vs. Gore in

Florida! He stabbed Gore in the back by pushing to have Absentee Military Ballots counted when most of them were sent in after the election...(meaning they were probably recruited by the Bushies) He did some other things that hurt Gore doing the recount...but that's past now. I was glad to see him go down for that alone.

[AlCzervik]

18. his only regret is that he can't run as a republican.

that'll be in 2012.

[KoKo]

21. Harry Reid needs to strip him of his Committee Assignments ASAP!

[dave29]

22. "Connecticut for Lieberman?"

It's supposed to be the other way around, Joe.

[ileus]

23. Go Joe Go....or was that Go Pat Go?

I can't remember...

[Occulus]

24. Okay, what. the. hell:

"In Connecticut, Lieberman said his campaign collected more than 18,000 signatures on its petitions, more than twice the number needed to get on the fall ballot under the new party created, called Connecticut for Lieberman."

This "new party" bears his name??

Like I said in another post (limed for truth, this time):

What a SCHMUCK!!

[MurrayDelph]

30. Not a schmuck: a SHMENDRICK!

Leo Rosten, in the book The Joys of Yiddish, defined the term shmendrick as:
a) A shmendrick is small, short, weak, thin, a young nebbish, perhaps an apprentice schlemiel..
b) Someone who can't succeed but thinks he can, and persists in acting as though he might. 'He
has all the unrealistic hopes of a shmendrick.'

(of course, they are not mutually exclusive...)

[VegasWolf]

25. Wonder if Georgie Bush will campaign for the Lieberman Party? nt

[maxrandb]

26. I think Joe is morphing into Katherine Harris

Next thing you know, he'll be rolling marbles around in his hands and mumbling about "the strawberries".

This ought to make Joe very popular with the Republicans. He needs to be stripped of every committee seat.

Can the Democrats also fire all of his Congressional Staff? Democratic Congressional Staff ought to work for Democrats.

This may be a good thing. We might finally be able to see how hard and nasty Democrats are prepared to fight for the soul of our country. That's what 2006 is all about! Our Democracy is at stake. Like Sean Connery said in "The Untouchables"; "What are you prepared to do"?

[MrCoffee]

27. Don't badmouth Katie!

She's doing god's work down in Florida.

[GeorgeGist]

28. When you lose, you walk off the field...

it's called sportsmanship.

''I think it would be irresponsible and inconsistent with my principles if I were to just walk off the field,'' Lieberman said in an interview with The Associated Press.

[illumn8d]

29. IF he had done this before, then great -- go independent...

However, since you decided to participate in the primary, you should respect it's result and move on.

Reid, please strip this clown of all his committee appointments.