Reply #54: I defended Lieberman when I arrived on DU in the summer of 2002

[Rowdyboy]

I had been pleased with Gore's selection and thought it was an excellent move, though my political mentor, an elderly ex-state senator told me he would cost Gore the election.

Unfortunately, time after time after time since then, Senator Lieberman has ridiculed his fellow Democrats as being wrong, weak and inept when they chose to oppose GWB. He has a right to his opinion and his vote. He does not have a right to denigrate and belittle his party to curry favor with the media and the White House. Senator Lieberman's voting behavior since his capitulation in the 2000 election has been depressing and defeatist. I don't understand why he wants so desperately to support those who hate us and why he so easily harms his Democratic allies.

Yes, I'd rather have him in the seat than another one of those piss-ant, slack-jawed, cousin-mating "liberal yankee republicans" like Olympia Snow or Lincoln Chafee, but not by much.

Why can't one of the most liberal states in the union give us a SOLIDLY liberal senator instead of a man who could easily be elected in red states like Nebraska and South Dakota. I just expect more out of Connecticut.