- Posted by Christopher Estep on November 10, 2008
Now that the election is over, Democrats have decided to exact their revenge on Joe Lieberman as a result of his support for John McCain. As a result, Lieberman is talking with the GOP to see what he can get:
The Associated Press reports that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is talking to the independent senator from Connecticut caucusing with the GOP.
Lieberman's future in the Senate is in doubt. The Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2000 angered Democrats by openly supporting Republican John McCain for president.
On Thursday, Lieberman met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, and both the AP and CNN are reporting that Reid is considering yanking Lieberman's chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as punishment.
Now, I don’t mind Lieberman caucusing with the GOP. That’s not that big a deal. But for those in our party who think that they should try to get Lieberman or other Democrats to switch, I have just one thing to say:
GO AWAY! YOU’VE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE!
I don’t mean to be unkind, but the GOP is not a “big tent” and in fact, it’s not a tent at all. It’s a political party. All of this metaphorical bullplop does is dilute who we are. The GOP is not America. Neither is the Democratic party. America is the big tent.
If it’s one thing that we don’t need, it’s more people who aren’t conservative identifying themselves with us, the party of conservatives. If you want to agree with us half of the time and with them half of the time, that’s ok. Be an independent. Or be a Democrat. They can pretend to like you when they’re using you for power.
But don’t try to say you’re “one of us” because “us” is conservatives. You aren’t. This means you, Arlen Specter. You too, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. And Yes, John McCain, you can go there as well.
We know what this will mean. It means we will be an even smaller minority in the congress. I’m prepared for that. You guys have done enough already and have hurt our party for too long.
You RINO’s are to Republicans what the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco are to homosexuals. People who don’t know any better see a guy in nipple-clamps and ass-chaps and say, “That’s what homosexuals are like”. You wishy-washy RINO’s get people to think that you’re not only representative of the GOP at large, but that you’re conservative.
And what’s the result? You RINO’s have muddled the message and have bent over backwards to appease liberals at every turn. And now you have the unmitigated gall to blame it on conservatives when you were the ones who betrayed not only the party but America as a whole. You’ve taken what used to be a heads or tails choice and turned it into the “wheel of liberal fortunes”.
For 20 years we’ve listened to “where are they going to go?” and “who else will they vote for?” and now we’ve got Barack Obama because of it.
Well, here’s your answer. We’re not going anywhere. You are. You’ve turned our party into a soulless shadow of itself and where you haven’t capitulated to the left outright, you’ve insulted the very base that brought you into power.
So go away. We don’t want you. You aren’t conservative and we won’t let you define us anymore!
Lieberman looking for a political home - 2008 Presidential Campaign Blog - Political Intelligence - Boston.com