Reply #25: Except for a few points, he's quite a liberal; this is his home [View All]

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More than anything else, he's a pro-Israel-regardless-of-anything Orthodox Jew. He's also a tight-assed social moralist in league with the social conservatives. He's also a tool of the insurance industry and almost single-handedly torpedoed real investigation against Enron at a point when the Dems controlled the Senate. For me, what's most despicable is his opportunism in ratfucking Clinton when he was being railroaded by a virulent bunch of reactionaries. This also shows Gore's weakness: he put Lieberman on the ticket simply to distance himself from Clinton after the ginned-up crap of the impeachment; Gore should be ashamed and Lieberman should be derided for his calumny.

His voting record on everything else that liberals (okay, also cowards who're cowed by the right into disavowing that term and who identify themselves as "progressives") is quite good and noble. His votes on the environment, workers' rights, unions, and general fairness are quite honorable and decent.

He's not a Republican. He's a bit of a tool of the insurance industry, but more than anything else, he is so committed to Israel that he'd do anything that helps that state. This brings forth a question of loyalty: to who whom do you truly offer your allegiance? Is it to your country or your religious belief? For Lieberman, it's to his religious belief.

Don't dismiss some of the moral responsibility of this man, but remember that his prime allegiance is to his religion and his tight-assed view of social order. Still, having said this, his attack on Clinton was extreme opportunism, and he's a sanctimonious little prick. For him to become a Republican would be a personal betrayal of beliefs, and I'd be extremely surprised would he to do so. Republicans are selfish and only care about themselves; Lieberman, for all his opportunism and prissy moralistic stances still gives a damn about the common man.

He needs to go away. This needs to be an important lesson for us all, but to boil it down to the simplicity of allegiance is ridiculous.