Coulter:"I think he should come all the way and become a Republican"

[dajoki]

The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=108193

BLOG | Posted 08/04/2006 @ 5:32pm
DeLay, Coulter, Kristol Defend Lieberman

The polls show Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is falling far behind anti-war challenger Ned Lamont as the state's August 8 Democratic primary approaches.

But it's not all bad news for the embattled senator. At least Tom DeLay's rooting for him.

The former House majority leader from Texas is a Republican who may not agree with the Bush White House's favorite Democrat on every issue but who thinks the Senator is right-on when it comes to foreign policy.

" very good on the war," DeLay said during an interview this week on the Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" program.

With the Connecticut primary, in which Iraq War-enthusiast Lieberman trails war-critic Lamont by 13 points in the latest poll, just days away, the incumbent's neoconservative allies are rushing to his defense.

Lieberman's latest campaign contribution list features a $500 donation from Bill Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard, a publication so Pravda-like in its cheerleading for the Iraq imbroglio – and for an attack on Iran -- that Vice President Dick Cheney has stacks of each new edition delivered to the White House for distribution to the staff.

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter's defending Lieberman, as well, going on at some length during an interview with Fox's Neal Cavuto to explain how much she admires the senator and suggesting that, instead of fighting for the Democratic nomination in Connecticut, Lieberman ought to switch parties. "I think he should come all the way and become a Republican," argues Coulter, who says of Lieberman and the GOP: "at least he'd fit in with the party."

[jobycom]

1. Lieberman is pro-choice, pro-labor. They are saying this to kill him

Pretty sad when both parties want you gone.

[dogman]

3. Yep, burying him with praise.

Sadly it's praise he has earned. He wanted a high profile, sometimes that just makes you a target of opportunity.

[ihelpu2see]

7. Not so Pro Labor, He did not step in on the side of Labor in the Sikorsky

strike earlier this year..... And remember he has supported conservitive judges including Clarence Thomas, Alito and Roberts.

[whistle]

2. It is now official Mann Coulter knows that Joe Lieberman is a closet

...republican.

[dajoki]

5. Just think about it...

he was elected VP on the Dem ticket!!

[acmavm]

4. I agree, let the republicans have him.

[Sinti]

6. Damn that woman for forcing me to agree with her on something. n/t

[Cassandra]

8. Occasionally, even Coulter can be...

downright refreshing (or stupid, as you prefer).

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Yep. Another loser for the whacked-out right.

[Somawas]

10. I'm sorry, but Lieberman does not deserve as much

vilification as he gets around here. He's dead wrong on the war in Iraq, and for that he does deserve to lose his Senate seat. But let him talk about most things other than the war and he still sounds like a Democrat. Our tent is not too damn big if there isn't some room for Lieberman in it.