DeLay, Coulter, Kristol Defend Lieberman

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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.

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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."

Even though it comes from Coulter, that's not entirely crazy talk. In February of this year, Connecticut Republican Congressman Chris Shays told editors of the Stamford Advocate newspaper that he would be voting for Lieberman this year and urged other Republicans to do the same. The Hartford Courant reported on February 28 that "GOP officials have discussed cross-endorsing Democratic Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman this fall."

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

[Lindacooks]

1. Okay, now you KNOW Lamont is on the right side.

If that malignant trio supports Lieberman.

[Jazz2006]

2. Exactly! The saying, "With friends like that..."

springs to mind.

:rofl:

[NMDemDist2]

3. Lindacooks?

may i cordially invite into the DU Cooking and Baking forum

we're the friendlest people on DU!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=236

[Lindacooks]

5. I'd love to! I'm a cookbook author, so I have tons of recipes.

Thanks!

[NMDemDist2]

6. awesome! we love cooks, books, authors and recipes

you have the bases covered

:rofl:

[dogday]

4. Three more reasons not to support Joe

they don't help the cause at all....

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Bwahahahaha. With friends like that who needs enemies?

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8. kick

[Robbien]

9. I suppose if you are as desperate asJoementum is at this point

those three are as good as it gets.

Delay, Coulter and Kristol, oh my!.

[TahitiNut]

10. War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death

War .......... Lieberman
Famine ....... Coulter
Pestilence ... Delay (the Bug Man, d'uh)
Death ........ Kristol

It's sooo fitting.

[TahitiNut]

12. (sigh)

:eyes:

[salin]

11. Almost makes you think that they want him to lose

as their words of praise just reinforce the edgy feelings towards the Senator that has moved folks away from supporting the Senator.

Perhaps the strategy is to try to push Lieberman (and his ego) into the "Independent" candidate strategy in order to divide the gop vote. Given that it looks like more of their seats are in jeopardy than they had thought (and now a 'senate takeover' by the dems is possible) - the idea that they might be trying to push a scenario in which a divided electorate lets a dem seat slip to a republican (due to a divided dem/independent vote) not too terribly far fetched.