Joe Lieberman is a Democrat, but apparently not for long, or so says Carrie Budoff of “The Politico”:
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut told the Politico on Thursday that he has no immediate plans to switch parties but suggested that Democratic opposition to funding the war in Iraq might change his mind.
Lieberman, a self-styled independent who caucuses with the Democrats, has been among the strongest supporters of the war and President Bush’s plan to send an additional 21,500 combat troops into Iraq to help quell the violence there.
“I have no desire to change parties,” Lieberman said in a telephone interview. “If that ever happens, it is because I feel the majority of Democrats have gone in a direction that I don’t feel comfortable with.”
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He suggested, however, that the forthcoming showdown over new funding could be a deciding factor that would lure him to the Republican Party.
“I hope we don’t get to that point,” Lieberman said. “That’s about all I will say on it today. That would hurt.”
Hmmm. Sounds strangely like another former Democrat… Ronald Reagan. Well, at least he’s in good company. Strangely, such a move would not only place him, politically speaking, to the right of McCain and Gullianni, it would also open the door to his running for President as a Republican.
But don’t have any ideas, folks, about his changing party, flipping the Senate back to Republican hands. It ain’t gonna happen.
But even if he changes parties and NONE of those things happen… it would be illustrative of how far away the Democrats have drifted.
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