Lieberman Gets the Republicans to Clap for Everything They Hate About McCain

Lieberman was awesome. I am also a democrat who will be voting republican this year (Hillary ’12) and he spoke to my heart. Good job.

My favorite part was when he got everyone to clap for the presidency of Bill Clinton. Hysterical!

Former Vice Presidential nominee for the Democratic Party—awesome indeed.

Everyone at this convention looks soooo OLD, goofy and out of date. I want my country to move forward not backwards with all these old people. No fresh ideas for this country….

Matt,
Yes, look at Obama’s VP – he’s old.
Makes McCain’s pick look fresh and forward thinking.
McCain/Palin – the right choice.

These conventions really show up the differences in the parties.
The dems live in never never land and the GOP lives in the real world.

Great line about Obama’s stupid remark about abortion being “above his pay grade”
Brought the house down.
This convention is great so far. Awesome!

Lieberman is amazing!!
He supports the Corrupt and deceiving Republican Party!!
This year we have only one choice:
Honesty, responsibility, jobs, no war, medical health, true moral standards, and intelligence.
This year,
Democrats all the way!!

Why doesn’t Palin like America?

Al, not if there’s a Democratic Congress. Legislation going to the Pres. goes through them first. The Supreme Court may only make decisions based on the existing Constitution, not the one they wish they could have.

Then Lieberman pointed out…
“John McCain turned his back on ‘immigration reform’ during the primaries, saying he wouldn’t vote for his own bill.”
The crowd roared!
“How John McCain broke the law by using public financing as collateral for a loan before he decided to go without public financing.”
They were enthused!
“John McCain said the Bush tax cuts were unconscienceable before he said he supported them.”
The crowd stomped their feet!
“John McCain opposed all funding for renewable energy, opposed increasing the fuel efficiency standards that would have resulted in the U.S. importing 20% less crude oil than today.”
Then the crowd started laughing, at America.

kate…
so how does that make you feel about your party when they lose in november??

Somebody should have given Fred Thompson some Halls cough-drops.

Great Convention! Putting “Country First”…unlike the DemWit candidate, NoBama, putting “himself” first! Keep it up, GOP, we Americans want to put our Country First!
Can’t wait to hear Gov. Palin, the next Vice President of the United States speak tomorrow night! She’ll take care of business and bring even more support for the GOP this year!
McCain/Palin 08!
Country First!

I’ve watched some of this on NBC and the pundits look so glum as they realize this election may be over for Obama.
LOVE IT!!

Remember when Obama said “This isn’t about me, it’s about you?”
Yeah, that’s why he said the word “I” about 2000 times.
LOLOLOL. You can’t make this stupid dem stuff up.

Gabby,
Yeah, Ann Curry noted that and we do have a hurricane going on,
But nice try. She even went on to admit it will be packed tomorrow night for Palin.
Left out that little fact, didn’t cha??!!
LOL. You lose.

Go Joe! Go McCain!
Posted by: Jo
Don’t worry! They’ll be gone soon!

david from texas,
AMEN.
P.S. I’m in Texas too! :)

That trumps all.
Posted by: Jo
It would have if he’d actually won!
They’ve just announced that the Washington post just announced that Palin didn’t tell McCain that her daughter was pregnant until Wednesday, the day before he selected her! Are you kidding me? Sound Judgement? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. The press will eat this woman alive!

Wow…no mention of Thompson’s speech? That was the best speech of the night.
I thought Lieberman did okay. Was much more of an I love America feel than I felt last week watching the DNCC, that was all about Obama.

Beth
FYI, Lieberman is a regestered Independent! Of course he didn’t mention that. By the way, Thompson coughed 77 times! I’d say it’s an omen!

McCain says he doesn’t understand the internet or computers and that he has “other people do that for him.”
with the McCain/Palin ticket, we can officially go back to the 1950s– both socially and technologically! whoo hooo!

FYI…
im a second person that watched the RNC.. dont like it, but whats the alternative?!

im a young conservative… and i party like barack obama, i mean a rock star!!!!

funny how theresa makes it seem like a good convention is decided by the music…. hmmmm, sounds like an obama drone to me!!!!

mike, thats simply not true, but i have a question for you… how come obamas numbers havent moved anything more than a normal jump after a convention? if he is the guy you lefties try to make it seem like he is, wouldnt he have a commanding lead? just something to chew on… stay real, dont make things up..

man i cant wait to come in here the night of and the days after the election results to hear all the lefts excuses or conspiracies…

You nailed it Dell.
Hardly a mention of the last 8 years and all the great things that have happened.
Guess even Republicans can’t fake pride over that mess

tippy…
you’re falling for their game. very sad.

Why is it so close? Lots of reasons, but the main one is that Change scares a lot of people. We tend to like what we know over what we don’t. McCain is well known and we can be reasonably sure that we’ll survive the next 4 years under his administration just like we survived the last 8.
And of course, as the exit polls showed during the primaries, race does matter with a not insignificant portion of the population.

“all im saying is, if the last eight years have been soooo bad, and its all the republicans faults, then why is it so close? obama should be winning by a landslide”
Obama is up 6 points and climbing.
As the Palin fiasco continue to unfold, that will climb much faster.

“then dont vote for them… ”
Thanks for the sage advice.

OK who thinks Lieberman just intro’d himself for a vote tomorrow as Palin steps down?

i personally hope ted nugent gets palins spot… man that would be great.

If I were a Republican I would point out that its fair to say that Lieberman represents a failure of the Democratic Party process. We actually selected this guy to run for VP in the 2000 election. What a debacle that would have been if he had been elected. It doesn’t speak too well for the judgment of the Democratic Party. But we also reaffirmed this bad judgment with the rejection of Hillary Clinton. God will have finally blessed America when the Democratic Party gets its head screwed on straight enough to elect another Democrat.
I would point out, though, that Lieberman was able to get Republicans to applaud some of Bill Clinton’s accomplishments. That was rather phenomenal. I still don’t like the guy, though. He’s an absolute sellout.

You mean as Thompson’s coughed and wheezed his way what shoould have been a great story about McCain then told jokes that fell flat becuase he has bad timing.
You’re looking for a poll bounce from that?

pat that’s because Bush & Rove didn’t do that.

What’s wrong with Independent Joe winning over independents?

I know the pundits dismissed Lieberman and felt he wouldn’t have an impact
on those of us who’ve voted predominantly Democrat our whole lives, but in this election find ourselves on the fence. I agree that many Democrats will not even get to watching Lieberman and for many Democrats issues like abortion or potential Supreme Court nominees will deter them from crossing that line regardless of anything a Lieberman can say. I agree with Ted’s response to Lieberman. I felt he (Lieberman) spoke to my concerns tonight and said the things I needed to hear. I consider the past 8 yrs of Bush a total disaster and do not want to return to 4 more yrs of such. I consider the last 4 yrs of a Democratic Congress under Pelosi, Reid and company a disaster and have as much disdain for the likes of Reid and Pelosi as I do the Bush administration (at least close). Lieberman acknowledged that and spoke to that in that we have a reason to be unhappy as a result of these past 8 years and to not want to go there again. I am strongly liberal on social issues and abhor what the right wing of the Repub party stands for. I think Lieberman spoke to that. I have great admiration for McCain’s long record (before he even jumped into the race) of independence, willingness to take on special interests and his party and to take political risks for what he feels is right. I know, despite his pandering to get the nomination, that he is no George W. While I have voted predominantly Dem I have also voted Repub and 3rd party at times and while my positions fall in line with the Dems the majority of the time I tend to vote the person not the party. Having Lieberman, a Dem I’ve had alot of respect for (as I have Biden), who knows all the players in this race and Congress firsthand , who has seen first hand the work in the US Senate of both Obama and McCain – stand up there and vouch for McCain’s record and independence was important to me. What really hit a chord for me is his implication that while the power players of the Dem party will attack McCain and support their party’s candidate that they know the truth and that what Lieberman is saying is the truth. I watched Biden say he would be honored to run with or against McCain, Daschle who said that of course McCain voted along with Bush because that’s what all politicians (Dem or Repub) do to get elected, that Feingold said that while he supports Obama he doesn’t fear a McCain Presidency because McCain is really an independent and the knowledge that McCain has strong friendships with the Clintons, Kennedy, Kerry, Dodd, Daschle, Biden and so on- I don’t believe for one second any of these Dem power players fear a McCain Presidency
and just as McCain didn’t vote for Bush I believe there’s a strong probability the Clintons won’t be voting for Obama.
Lieberman struck all the right chords for this Independent.

Great job, Joe. I got what you said too!

Anybody actually interested in working together? If a former Democrat VP candidate can address the floor of the Republican National Convention and get applause for Bill Clinton, maybe this is the campaign that can knock down some walls. McCain has reached across the aisle, a lot, as we all know. So much that party loyalists haven’t trusted him for years. I think he is a guy who really can and will work with both sides for the good of our country.

You’re right Sluggo, Republicans send their children to expensive Business/Law schools like Harvard and Yale (or both), Set them up with loans to start an oil company or buy a baseball team(or both) and then, when it fails, bankroll their political career so they can fail on a national level using the money of taxpayers to get a hefty return on their initial poor investment.
“Democrats love candidates who have never done anything, can’t run a business and never had an economics course.”

I was not for Obama in the beginning but the more I see of McCain, the faster I find myself supporting Obama and admiring him. McCain has sold his soul to win the presidency and he hasn’t even passed the first test…selecting a running mate. He picks someone who appeals to the Christian right rather than what is good for the country. Palin’s personal life, her ethics problems, her association with a secessionist group in Alaska, her mischaracterizations which are coming to light about the bridge to nowhere should have counted for something with McCain. She is not presidential material but McCain selected her for selfish reasons rather than thinking about the good of the country. Shame on him!

Palin just got her first passport in 2007. she hasn’t even been to Russia (which is only 2.5 miles away from alaska). how can Palin handle intricate foreign policy when she’s only left the country once (as part of her gubernatorial duties). how can she be trusted to deal with the likes of Putin or Amadinejhad?
she doesn’t even know what a VP does.
i’m honestly surprised mccain would be this reckless with his choice.

LOL, sorry Jake, but I’m having this cute visual of you playing the piano in your 5th grade, then standing up for the applause.
Great article though. I totally agree with you.

For all of the Hillary ’12/McCain Voters. What do you think ’12 is going to look like after four more years of Iraq?
48 Months @ $12.3 Billion/Month = $590B.
More than another half Trillion in debt to China at what interest rate?
Hell, McCain is going to have to cancel ALL taxes to pay for that. It’s the only thing that makes sense

Carl But you seem to forget that Obama is going to march us right over from Iraq into Afghanistan to continue George W’s war on terror. What, are we getting a discount or something on military costs over in Afghanistan.
These troops aren’t coming home they’re just veering off the path a little.
And yet on the domestic front we’re going to implement this program and that program and universal health care and on and on. Of course, I’m not too concerned about it though because I’ve been around long enough to know that if Obama gets one thing out of the laundry list of things he promised (which was the same liberal promises made every 4 years) then he’ll have accomplished something.

Lieberman was wacky. When he compared Clinton’s presidential record with Obama who isn’t the president yet? What was that all about? AND THEY CLAPPED like they were coached?? Very strange.
As an African-America I can say I do find it strange that a party that was preaching inclusion- tonight could not match their rhetoric with a visual representing inclusion in the convention. I counted 1,2,3 maybe 4 African American faces and a few Asians. Something is wrong with that picture. The Republicans need to practice what they preach. To say you are putting “COUNTRY FIRST” and your delegates are monolithic in their appearance is quite contrary to your message. The American population is a microcosm of the world. The Democratic party represents the diverse county of immigrants,the generational offspring of African slaves and Native Americans. What does the Republican party demographic represent- not modern day America. Watching that gathering tonight is like viewing America through a time warp. It is very scary.

Stanian,
I don’t remember mentioning Palin. You must have hit the wrong Republican response macro. Try another random key, I’m sure it will make just as much sense.

John McCain is now vetting Sarah Palin. Do you want John McCain so careless with a major decision to be president?

Ryan You didn’t answer the question.

alpaig: “At least she could stick up to her party”
She could. But she didn’t.

alpaig52: “Palin’s been to Ireland, Germany and Kuwait”
Bwahahaha. First, she visited American military bases, that’s hardly visiting a country and drinking tea with the locals. And second, Ireland was a stop-over, for fuel.

Beth: ‘Kate, you need your eyes checked because I see a very diverse crowd of young and old.’
Awe. What do you consider young? 55?
I saw the same as Kate: a bunch of old white people. The only people who were young were their home-schooled children. And they are old by nature.

Fred Thompson was on fire tonight.
He pretty much sliced & diced the junior Senator Obama and tossed him in the garbage.

Pat I respect your opinion on that but I don’t really see what the big deal is with Palin in a VP slot when Obama’s at the top of the ticket. Both the Dems and the Repubs have their bright, shining and upcoming stars,
Obama being one of the Dems and Palin and Jindal being two examples on the Repub side. The Dems have opted to put their bright new talent on the top of their ticket and McCain has opted to put one of their new talent in the VP slot. Tim Kaine was on the City Council, Mayor, Lt Governor and a Governor for as long as Palin and I really don’t believe for one second we would see the outcry we are seeing about Palin if Obama had chosen him. People may have questioned why Obama didn’t put someone with more foreign policy experience on the ticket to compensate for his lack of but we certainly wouldn’t be negating what experience he has in the manner we are Palin and certainly not question how could have children and still be VP.
Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush Jr all came on as ex-Governors with minimal if any foreign policy experience. In fact the only recent President who came on with such is George Sr. People discount Alaska because of it’s small population but I hear no one mentioning Biden’s representation of Delaware, a State that has only about 200,000 more people then in Alaska. I think years of experience while important in the long run mean little if your experience has nothing to show for it. Obama has not completed his first term in the Senate and has spent all but 143 days campaigning for the Presidency. He has one of the worst records for not showing up to vote (in comparison to Clinton who was also running and yet made 92% of her votes), never held one meeting during his stewardship of the foreign relations committee until just very recently- he might have not as well even shown up because he obviously (like Edwards whose experience was even slimmer then Palins and Kaines) just walked in the door to use the US Senate as a springboard to a Presidential run.
I’ll take almost 3 yrs of Governing from either Palin or Kaine before Obama’s 143 days productive days in the US Senate. I’ve been a community organizer and while a noble position to say that job is more relevent then City Council or Mayor is a joke. Obama has 300 foreign policy advisors, I think McCain can round up a couple hundred for Palin. Obama has pointed out to us over and over again that judgement, not experience, it what’s important. In fact the Obama camp doesn’t want an arguement on the experience issue in regards to Palin’s presence on the scene now, rather they’re spinning the judgement angle. I personally would have rather seen Ridge or Lieberman on the ticket but clearly if they wanted to keep the GOP base that wasn’t going to happen but I don’t think everything we know about McCain and the value he would place on someone like Palin who is probably more libertarian then GOP, comes as such a shock. I listened to Palin on CNBC talking about drilling and ANWAR (of which I’m not on board for) and found her impressive, intelligent, fresh (she made Obama sound like an entrenched old politics
politician replaying the same old rhetoric of the DFL) and had me almost convinced we should drill in ANWAR. She may get up there tomorrow and choke or say some gaffe in the near future or something bigger then what they’ve thrown out of the kitchen sink already, may come out but all the arguements to date are pretty lame, sexist, classist
and elitist. Personally, I don’t think we need one more lawyer in politics from Harvard. If we want a new and fresh perspective and change in this Country then some of our future politicians may end up running with less experience then our traditional picks and with more non-traditional backgrounds. Someone doesn’t have to agree with her or chose to vote for her but she should at least be given a chance to pass/fail on her own rather then stories about DUI’s going back 20 yrs and teenage pregnancy. I come from a State where our Governor was an ex-professional wrestler and I think one of our best Senators Paul Wellstone, who Obama couldn’t hold a candle too, was a teacher. He was rooted in the people and his politics showed that.
You know, Axelrod has spent alot of energy and strategizing and implementing events and press over the course of 18 months attempting to convince this Country that Obama’s Presidential and that his minimal record of accomplishments be swept under the rug, and he has done a great job of that obviously. I think if Axelrod took on Palin he could have us convinced she’s Presidential material pretty quickly also. The Obama camp wants her out of this race and they are at the bottom of the sink being thrown at this women and while Obama can eloquently denounce throwing children into the mix clearly his camp has no problem putting it out there and stirring the pot. I expect Rove type attacks and politics from the GOP but I expected better from the DFL.

Kathy They’re all hypocrites . It’s all the same old politics. I don’t know how Obama can attack McCain on the vote on Iraq when Biden made the same vote and also supported in increase in troops right alongside McCain. The Dems saying McCain doesn’t support veterans because he didn’t support Webb’s GI Bill is misleading. McCain opposed it out of concerns about retainment and most importantly he wanted to see education benefits for military personnel be able to be transferred to their children (something the troops want, to pass those benefits to their kids to pay for their college) and the final bill ended up including it. And also, the Dems sat on that bill for almost two years and didn’t pull it out until the election cycle until it was politically expedient. In fairness to the DFL, the same holds true for when they oppose bills on the base of things that have been added to the bill or the wording and then the GOP comes out and says they don’t support senior citizens or some such thing. It’s just the same old politics and your candidate engages in it and is just as much a part of it as everyone else.

From Mike Doogan, Alaska:
“Palin’s time as governor has been a mixed bag. She deserves high marks for moving the possibility of a gas pipeline forward. But most of the work on [raising] oil taxes was done by the legislature. Ditto with ethics reform. And her role in killing the ballyhooed “Bridge to Nowhere”? Turns out that she was for it before she was against it, and that, well, she kept the money anyway.
Add to this a growing sense that the state government isn’t running all that well: commissioners and key staffers jumping or being pushed. The operating budget growing 10 percent a year. Policy problems such as high energy costs being papered over with cash giveaways. The governor and her aides being investigated by the legislature. You can see why it’s not clear she’s a competent governor of Alaska, let alone qualified to take over the reins of the national government.”

The Dems saying McCain doesn’t support veterans because he didn’t support Webb’s GI Bill is misleading. McCain opposed it out of concerns about retainment”
Yes, because soldiers bettering themselves from college could decide McCain policy of endless war may not work for them and no reenlist.
The McCain solution?
Stop improvement of one of the greatest social class moving policies in the modern era.

I’m ex-democrat[Hillary supporter]
voting republican this year….
McCAIN/PALIN ’08

Everybody thinks that you need 60 votes in the Senate to get a Bill passed.
Wrong. It’s a majority of the vote, at the most 51. It has ‘become’ 60 in this particular Senate because the Republicans have filibustered every meaningful Bill. The number of filibusters is twice as high in the last two sessions from previous ones.

Ha ha I was thinking about that last point Jake made as well. And isn’t one of McCain’s sons a John as well- that makes 4 John McCains. (And maybe I am getting this wrong, but should an Orthodox Jew be invoking God’s name at all anyway?)
I wasn’t impressed with Lieberman at all to be honest. I thought Fred Thompson sold John McCain much better. And I don’t know how popular Joe Lieberman is with anyone right now. Maybe a few folks in the middle, but I think the Democratic Party is pretty mad at him, and I am not sure the GOP has ever warmed to him, except maybe in a schadenfreunde kind of way. He’s certainly no Zell Miller.

If so much is at stake for this country, why on earth did DNC nominate a very unqualified person for presidential nominee. We would not put a medical intern in charge of a hospital. If there are questions about McCain/Palin ticket, it pales in comparison to Obama/Biden.

To all those here criticizing Barack Obama’s alleged lack of experience, tell me something:
What exactly has John McCain accomplished in his 26 years in office?

Another Sarah,
Had McCain pick a woman based solely on her merits, I would have congratulated him for doing so.
But he didn’t choose Palin based o0n her merits.
He chose Palin out of desperation hoping to stop Obama’s momentum and to excite his base.
Many women feel insulted by McCain’s choice not so much because of who he picked, but because of the reason he picked her.

I have no sympathy for Palin
or her family. My sympathies
go to the families of bears
and moose she’s been trophy
hunting and killing for sport.

What one has to realize is that these people in the RNC (excluding Paul delegates) are sheep being led to the slaughter and will clap at just about anything. If you want to see an intelligent crowd reacting to cerebral speeches watch clips of the Paul rally.

Love all the so-called “Hillary” supporters voting Mccain. (yea right.) You must totally agree with Mccain’s campaign manager as he stated yesterday this election is NOT about the issues.

Here is my question to you: Should the 18 yr old kid that got Gov. Palin underage daughter pregnant be charged, with a crime like other teens in this Country? There are teens in this Country currently serving jail time, for commenting the same offense of having sex with an underage minor that this kid is being accused of. Why isn’t the law being followed in this case? Is there a double standard for a VP candidate?

I respect Lieberman, because he is a Democrat of old, JFK and FDR style, he is not part of this George Soros controlled Modern day Democrat party. And for that he was kicked out, I guess the modern day dems/libs do not believe in individual opinion and free speech! the man voted 95% of the time with the libs but that was not good enough – Keep that in mind Conservative states the Dems running in you are are not conservative they are libs!
We support McCain because the alternative is too dangerous far more then anyone realizes!!

Remember Judas?? Anyone who ever believed that Lieberman was a democrat had been wearing blinkers. All CT voters who supported him must be having buyer’s remorse. Go back to history, and try to understand why Israel has not been able to secure their own territory and live in peace. It is such like Lieberman who had betrayed their own people, bit the hands that fed them and will remain an outcast for the rest of their lives. People without loyalty are just not traitors, they bring eternal grief to those that follow them.

Republicans not only allow Joe Lieberman to speak at the GOP convention, but cheer? My how my party has lost its way…who are these imposters? What has happened? Why is John McCain the GOP candidate? Who in the world is Sarah Palin?

In my book, it’s a free country. Lieberman can back whomever he likes. But c’mon, Joe, you can do better than old Republican tricks like saying that Obama voted against money for our troops in Iraq. Obama supports our soldiers, and you know it. That vote was a symbolic protest of this unnecessary war, in which thousands of soldiers have died for a bunch of lying Republicans.

I think Lieberman is the most honest in DC. He stuck it to the Democraps when they denounced him and ran as an independent and beat them. No wonder they are upset…..
You guys out there only seeing “old people” must remember that these folks have forgotten more than you will ever know. Seems that when you reach a certain age you get smarter. Go McCain/Palin.
Heard a reporter this AM saying that “Palin just might put Pelosi in the time-out chair”. Being a mom of 5 sounds like she might just be able to handle all the children we have elected in Washington.

Did anyone get a load of the crowd at this convention it looks like they emptied every nursing home this side of Florida to attend. I did not see any youth in that crowd of old fogies.

Ronnie forget the crowd.
Have you ever seen a party convention that is basically and indictment of their own party?

Happy to see you all paying such attention to the RNC! Wonderful party, uh – not just a Hollywood, rock-star affair! You all sound so scared! WOW!!

Lieberman was an embarassment even as the Democratic VP canidate–he isn’t going to help the GOP. His 90% record
of voting with Bush pales in comparison to his 100% toeing the line with AIPAC. The man is simply so Zionist he can’t stand the risk of a man with common sense possibly running American foreign policy.

You must not have been watching ABC, Jake. They cut over to commentators during the middle of the speech! They didn’t do that during Hillary’s Tuesday night keynote, did they? Please explain whether or not this is media bias in a separate post.