The only time I ever voted for a Republican was in 1988, when I voted for Lowell Weicker, who was running against the loathsome Joe Lieberman. The only time I voted for Joe Lieberman was once by mistake, when I forgot to skip his lever on the old voting machines, and once in 2000, when I had no choice, given that he was on the ballot as Al Gore’s biggest mistake ever.
I was proud to do my little bit in 2006 to deprive him of the Democratic nomination for the Senate, when I voted for Ned Lamont at the state convention and in the primary, and regularly vilified Lieberman, to the best of my ability on this blog.
All of this is by way of saying that this in no way surprises me:
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said he’s thinking of supporting Donald Trump for president, Jewish Week reports.
He’s still undecided but added there are “a lot of us, I think, who can’t feel quite comfortable either way yet.”
via Political Wire
In my last post I questioned how the folks in Maine could countenance Susan Collins, but really, we in Connecticut have a lot more to answer for. At least we got rid of him in the end.
UPDATE: Connecticut Bob reminds us that it is 10 years ago today that the Connecticut Democratic Party expelled Lieberman from its ranks. I remember that day vividly. We were vacationing in Vermont, and I spent the evening refreshing my browser every 5 minutes to follow the results. Ned may have lost, but he helped move the party away from Lieberman and the nation away from Iraq, and he deserves our eternal thanks.
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