Senate Democrats reject Lieberman for FBI director

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54. And he turned his back on the party that saw fit to embrace him as vice president on Al Gore's

ticket. Eight years after Gore/Lieberman, there he is at the republi-CON convention, addressing them as their keynote speaker, endorsing John McCain over Barack Obama. And when he ran for reelection to the Senate in 2006, he was primaried, but then abandoned his party to go independent. He won another term, but by then he was starting to show so many more leanings toward the CONS that he gave it up by 2012 - when he proved extremely unpopular with his Connecticut Democratic constituents. That's why we've since had the terrific Chris Murphy in that seat, thank goodness.

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He always claimed it was for the good of the country, but he just started leaning too far to the wrong end of the spectrum, and I'm not surprised his service in the Senate didn't last. But when he made that speech at that convention, and sided with the GOP nominee over the party that supported him, continued to open its doors to him after he spurned them, and sought to bestow the vice presidency upon him, that was certainly it for me. He seemed to morph into a public servant who cared more about himself staying in power than about his constituents. I worked hard to support the Gore/Lieberman ticket. Put my faith in him as well as in Al Gore. And I eventually found I could not ever trust him again. Evidently that's what the voters in Connecticut thought, too.

An elephant isn't the only creature that never forgets.