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Lieberman to Speak at GOP Convention
August 20, 2008 10:45 AM
ABC News' Karen Travers and Nitya Venkataraman Report: The McCain campaign confirms that erstwhile Democrat Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ind-Conn, will be speaking Monday night at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
Lieberman, who was the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2000, speaks from the GOP stage the same night as his former rivals President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Also scheduled for Monday night speaking time are California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Laura Bush.
Lieberman, whose name has been floated in the GOP vice presidential pool, is one of the Republican nominee's closest allies in the Senate and has taken considerable heat from Democrats for crossing party lines to campaign for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
The overall theme of the convention will be "Country First", each night highlighting a theme of service, reform, prosperity and peace.
Under Tuesday night's "Reform" umbrella, two of McCain's 2008 party rivals will take the stage: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Wednesday night's theme is "Prosperity". The keynote will be delivered by the Republican vice presidential nominee, a selection yet-to-be announced by the McCain campaign. Cindy McCain, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal are all also slated to speak.
On Thursday, McCain officially accepts the Republican nomination in prime time -- speakers include Minnesota Gov. Tim Palwenty, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback and Florida Sen. Mel Martinez.
August 20, 2008 in Hunter, Duncan, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (144)
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I hope McCain picks Lieberman as his VP. Then Lieberman will make history a second time, as the only person to ever lose on the national tickets of both parties! The core value at the heart of Joe Lieberman is his burning political ambition! He spouts bipartisan bs, and country over party, but don't be fooled -- It's all about Joe.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | Aug 20, 2008 11:39:43 AM
I am surprised McCain does not pick Sean Hannity for VP. He has all the correct answers to heal the earth of the evil liberalism! He also has hair much like Reagan's which would help him win. Come McCain kick some liberal butt! Amen!
Posted by: Greg | Aug 20, 2008 11:40:21 AM
Lieberman won and Lamont lost. McCain will win and Obama will lose.
Obama is another Lamont.
Posted by: Roger Miller | Aug 20, 2008 11:40:39 AM
If you invite Zero-bama, he will speak at GOP convention. Being a phony talkinghead, he will say and do anything to gather a vote.
Posted by: Olbermn3 | Aug 20, 2008 11:42:31 AM
Of course he wants four more of war - kill and drill!
Posted by: Madeleine | Aug 20, 2008 11:42:59 AM
With Old Man Lieberman, Alongside his Old Senior Citizen Pal John "Semi-Senile" McCain ...
Look for one Hell of a Geriatric Presidential Combination...
Two Ugly Old, Pasty, Geriatric Looking, AARP,
"Which One will Keel Over First, In the Oval Office" or Worse...
Which one will Fall Asleep During the Swearing In Ceremony or Worse,
Which one will Have a Heart Attack or have a Hardening of the Arteries, while in the Oval Office ?
2 Of the Oldest Geezers to Ever Run for President & Vice President of the USA !!
The True, Senior Citizens Tour......
I Hope their Blue Cross is Paid Off ?
No Country For Old Men Campaign !!!!!!
Either Man would Not Fulfill their 1st terms....
What am I saying.........
This Combination is Doomed for Failure !!!!
Posted by: O. Sandy Springs Ga. | Aug 20, 2008 11:43:57 AM
From the Conn. people Joe Libermann is a disgrace to his party( Dems) . The only reason he is an Indep is because Ned Lamont beat him in the primary here, and he switched so he could get back in. He is an insult. Get Lost Joe. You can bet this is his last term.
Posted by: newvoter | Aug 20, 2008 11:44:42 AM
John McCain, Randy Scheunemann, Joe Lieberman and Certain Republican Officials were counting on this Georgia-Russia CONFLICT to HELP Jon McCain.....
It has'nt, as well as the Saddleback SetUp
It Exposed John McCain as an Antagonizer and Propogandist, who will Do Absolutely ANYTHING to stack the Cards in his FAVOR, REAGARDLESS of the CONSEQUENCES.
JOE LIEBERMAN: WHO WOULD YOU WANT IN A WAR OR SECURITY CRISIS ?
JOE LIEBERMAN: IN EACH NEW PRESIDENCY, SOMETHING BIG HAS HAPPENED DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF A NEW PRESIDENT, WE NEED SOMEONE THAT CAN "HANDLE SUCH A CRISIS"...
RESPONSE: AN DO WHAT ?
START A NUCLEAR WAR WITH (RUSSIA) THE NATION WITH ONE OF THE LARGEST, IF NOT THE LARGEST, STOCKPILE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS...GIVE ME OBAMA.
JOHN MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN: IF A WAR WERE TO OCCUR, BEFORE THE ELECTION OR DURING THE ELECTION, IT WOULD BENEFIT "JOHN MCCAIN"
CRAZY SAAKASHVILLI SHOULD'VE WAITED UNTIL OCT 31.08 TO ATTACK S. OSETTIA, OR UNTIL GEORGIA BECAME A NATO MEMBER !!
THIS WHOLE THING IS A POORLY EXECUTED PLAN, TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE AN IT STINKS TO THE LOWEST OF LEVELS....
STRAIGHT DOWN TO THE BOWELS OF HELL !!!
JOHN MCCAIN IS A NUT...A BONAFIDE, CERTIFIDE AND QUALIFIED.... NUT !!!
CAUTION: WAIT UNTIL THE END OF OF THE OLYMPICS..HU JIN TAO IS A SUPPORTER OF RUSSIA, THEY DID WAR EXCERCISES LAST YEAR IN AUG OF 2007...
HU JIN TAO WILL MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN AND FOR WHO, AFTER THE OLYMPICS...MARK MY WORDS !!!!
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Posted by: o. | Aug 20, 2008 11:44:59 AM
Finally the Republicans will be able to outlaw abortion this time around and make illegal birth control. We are a Christian country that will defeat all evil. Liberman has finally coem to his sense, maybe he will convert to Christianity at the Republic Convention, that would get the base going for McCain.
Posted by: Greg | Aug 20, 2008 11:45:29 AM
Lieberman is a sad character at this point in his political life. He is fervently pro-war since he mistakenly sees this as being in the best interests of Israel. However, the Iraq War has been a disaster for all concerned including the families of the more than 4000 dead US soldiers, 100,000 dead Iraqis, the US taxpayer, and for the peace process in the Middle East. It has been great for the Blackwaters and Haliburtons of the world. His dogged adherence to the failed war policies of Bush (and now McCain) placed him at odds with his party. He is now bitter and willing to strike back in any way he can. That he is a mouthpiece for an uninformed, knee-jerk " all war all the time" McCain who is so confused that Joe has to correct him while on camera marks a pathetic end to Lieberman's career. As soon as the elections are over, no matter who wins the White House, the Democratic senate will strip him of all committee seniority. Lieberman has become an unwitting tool of the McCain campaign managers which makes him allies with Karl Rove and his band of Big Lie and Smear thugs. Too bad Joe, your clouded vision has cost you a much better place in history.
Posted by: jefflz | Aug 20, 2008 11:47:08 AM
Lieberman flatout lied to ultimately beat Lamont in the general election after losing the primary. Many people were fooled by his double talk on Iraq and feel betrayed. He would not beat Lamont in CT if the general election were held again today. Polls show that putting him on the ticket would not even help McCain in CT. To the contrary, it would fire up Dems nationwide to kick Lieberman's butt again like it was in the Senate primary!
Posted by: hopesprings52 | Aug 20, 2008 11:47:43 AM
greg...no I am NOT willing to sacrafice my kids for an unnecessary war. Plus where do you plan to build these tanks and hummers. Our plants are all closed and we have sold the machinery to countrya in Europe. Thank you George W!!!
Posted by: militarymom | Aug 20, 2008 11:49:08 AM
John McCain's Broken Classics.....
#1 Hit: I told You "The Surge Would Work"
Note: As Though McCain Originated "The Surge" When in Fact "The Surge" is General McFarland's Military Strategy and it did not happen at Anbar, "The Surge" happened in (Bagdad) The Bloody Anbar Awakening Happened Almost a Year Before "The Surge" and General Petraeus was Not in Iraq, During "The Anbar Awakening" or "The Surge"...
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The Anbar Awakening: Is the Crucial Turning Point in the Iraq War and without it, The Surge would still be at Day One and the Casualties Would still be Prevalent. Yet Semi-Senile John McCain has Projected himself as the Creater of "The Surge", as though, Mccain Concieved, Created and his "Surge Strategy" was Implemented by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the President, based on Mccain's "Military Experience" when all He did was Sign on a Non-Partisan BandWagon to send an Additional 20,000 Troops....
Thats All McCain Did.
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McCain Hit #2: "I know how to Win Wars"
Oh Really John ? Are you Counting Viet Nam as a WIN for America ? You were Locked Up and being Tortured Day & Night, Remember ? John, Name One Military Strategy that you had Concieved, Created and had Implemented by the President & his Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Please and Don't Mention "The Surge" I just Squashed that LIE
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McCain Hit #3: "No Timetable for Withdrawal, Come Home in Victory"
What is a Victory to You John McCain ? The President of Iraq wants us OUT, The President of the USA is setting a "Time Horizon" and its been said, the Time Frame is (2010) Yet, We should Leave in Victory, Not Enough Dead Bodies, for you John ??
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John McCain Hit #4: "The 4 1/2 Year Military Strategy Failed, Because it was a Poorly Planned & Poorly Executed"
McCain is Condemning Joint Chiefs Of Staff, The President, The Vice President, Himself, The Senators & Congressmen and Women who Voted on all the Military Strategies, leading up, to the "Surge" and Above all else the US Military Performed their Jobs Incompetently, Thats Exactly what he's saying...
Yet McCain Double Talks and Calls the U.S Military Honorable, Brave and Corageous..McCain has to Open his EYES WIDE and Accept that he was a Major Force in Voting 95% of the Time on the Iraq War and All Bush Military, Foreign and Domestic Policies....Fact
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/pastor-hagee-the-antichri_b_104608.html
On March 16, 2003, on the eve of the United States' invasion of Iraq, Pastor John Hagee took to the pulpit to warn of the coming Antichrist.
In his sermon, "The Final Dictator," Hagee described the Antichrist as a seductive figure with "fierce features." He will be "a Blasphemer and a Homosexual," the Pastor announced.
Then, Hagee boomed, "There's a phrase in Scripture used solely to identify the Jewish people. It suggests that this man [the Anti-Christ] is at least going to be Partially Jewish, as was Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx."
NOTE: This "Fierce" Gay Jew, according to Hagee, would "Slaughter One-Third of the Earth's Population" and "Make Adolph Hitler look like a Choirboy."
Hear Pastor Hagee's latest Judeophobic, anti-gay rant in this video, created by Bruce Wilson of Talk2Action.org
Exposed here for the first time, Hagee's comments identifying the Antichrist as a partly Jewish Homosexual arrive in the wake of a furor the pastor provoked by describing the Holocaust as an act of God.
Hagee's chilling sermon about the Holocaust prompted Sen. John McCain to reject the Preacher's Support, an unexpected turnabout after McCain spent over a year soliciting his endorsement.
Days after McCain's rejection, I reported that a key McCain ally, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, planned to deliver the keynote speech at Hagee's upcoming Christians United For Israel (CUFI) summit. As the story exploded into the mainstream press, pressure mounted on Lieberman to withdraw.
But Lieberman stayed the course, declaring in a prepared statement, "Pastor Hagee has devoted much of his life to fighting anti-Semitism and building bridges between Christians and Jews...
I will go to the CUFI Summit in July and speak to the people who have come to Washington from all over our country to express their support of America and Israel, based on our shared eternal values and our shared contemporary challenges in the war against terrorism."
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Have any of YOU SEEN A BABY that has SURVIVED A (PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION) ITS TERRIBLE !!!
It would do those of You MORALIST a SERVICE to SEE what that LOOKS LIKE 1ST HAND AN SEE THE DAMAGE DONE in order to UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS TO BE DONE.
OBAMA DID NOT MAKE THESE LAWS....
NOTE: THESE LAWS & MEDICAL PRACTICES HAVE BEEN LEGALIZED FOR (DECADES) AND BUSH IN HIS (8 YEARS) WAS A (PRO-CHOICE PRESIDENT)
BUSH, CHENEY, RICE AND THE MORAL MAJORITY RING WING REPUBLICAN SENATE & CONGRESS, DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING REAGDRING ABORTION, NOTHING TO RID THE USA OF THESE LEGAL MEDICAL PRACTICES AND NEITHER DID JOHN "SEMI-SENILE" MCCAIN... FOR 25 YEARS !!!
NOW HE'S PRO-LIFE...
WHEN HE'S BEEN PRO CHOICE OR DEAD AIR SILENT ON THE ABORTION ISSUE !!!
BIG NOTE: DURING HIS 25 YEARS AS A SENATOR, WHAT DID JOHN MCCAIN AND HIS MORAL PRESENCE DO ON THE ABORTION FRONT, TO STOP, CHANGE OR ERADICATE THESE LAWS AND LEGAL MEDICAL PRACTICES....
ANS: NOT A DAMN THING, THAT MEANS MCCAIN, HIS SO CALLED CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT BUSH JR, A (PRO-CHOICE PRESIDENT) AT THAT,
MCCAIN AN HIS MAJORITY MORAL MAJORITY, RIGHT WING SENATE & CONGRESS, DID (ABSOLUTELY NOTHING) TO ERADICATE THESE LAWS, DURING A TIME THAT THEY IN FACT HAD CONTROL...
AS WELL AS NIXON, CARTER, RONALD REAGAN AND BUSH SR, BILL CLINTON....NOTHING AT ALL !!
THE SO CALLED RIGHT WINGERS DID NOTHING, THAT MEANS THEY AGREED WITH THE LAW OF THE LAND AND ROE VS. WADE...
SIMPLE AN PLAIN, WITH NOWHERE TO RUN AND HIDE AND NO EXCUSES....PERIOD
GOTCHA !!!
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John McCain, Randy Scheunemann, Joe Lieberman and Certain Republican Officials were counting on this Georgia-Russia CONFLICT to HELP Jon McCain.....
It has'nt, as well as the Saddleback SetUp
It Exposed John McCain as an Antagonizer and Propogandist, who will Do Absolutely ANYTHING to stack the Cards in his FAVOR, REAGARDLESS of the CONSEQUENCES.
JOE LIEBERMAN: WHO WOULD YOU WANT IN A WAR OR SECURITY CRISIS ?
JOE LIEBERMAN: IN EACH NEW PRESIDENCY, SOMETHING BIG HAS HAPPENED DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF A NEW PRESIDENT, WE NEED SOMEONE THAT CAN "HANDLE SUCH A CRISIS"...
RESPONSE: AN DO WHAT ?
START A NUCLEAR WAR WITH (RUSSIA) THE NATION WITH ONE OF THE LARGEST, IF NOT THE LARGEST, STOCKPILE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS...GIVE ME OBAMA.
JOHN MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN: IF A WAR WERE TO OCCUR, BEFORE THE ELECTION OR DURING THE ELECTION, IT WOULD BENEFIT "JOHN MCCAIN"
CRAZY SAAKASHVILLI SHOULD'VE WAITED UNTIL OCT 31.08 TO ATTACK S. OSETTIA, OR UNTIL GEORGIA BECAME A NATO MEMBER !!
THIS WHOLE THING IS A POORLY EXECUTED PLAN, TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE AN IT STINKS TO THE LOWEST OF LEVELS....
STRAIGHT DOWN TO THE BOWELS OF HELL !!!
JOHN MCCAIN IS A NUT...A BONAFIDE, CERTIFIDE AND QUALIFIED.... NUT !!!
CAUTION: WAIT UNTIL THE END OF OF THE OLYMPICS..HU JIN TAO IS A SUPPORTER OF RUSSIA, THEY DID WAR EXCERCISES LAST YEAR IN AUG OF 2007...
HU JIN TAO WILL MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN AND FOR WHO, AFTER THE OLYMPICS...MARK MY WORDS !!!!
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Posted by: o. | Aug 20, 2008 11:49:25 AM
hopesprings52,
You hit right on the nose. Joe Lieberman is about Joe Lieberman, always has and always. For a former VP candidate of one party to speak at another party's convention just 8 years later demonstrates the height of arrogance. The Republicans can have him....he fits right in with the rest of the arrogant snobs..
Posted by: indy_voter | Aug 20, 2008 11:49:33 AM
The Russians can nuke New York and L.A. those are evil liberal bastions of sin. We can let them hit those and any liberal city before we blow Russia o the gates of Hell. Go McCain Guiliani 2008
Posted by: Greg | Aug 20, 2008 11:50:13 AM
People talk about red and blue issues, we finally have two people that have put their parties aside and are getting to the issues. Isn't this what we want, isn't this the hope for our nation.
Posted by: incognito | Aug 20, 2008 11:52:09 AM
Greg:
The Ct-senator will notconvert, instead a new religion will be "reborn" at the convention, that of the Judeo-Christian National Religion.
All those not joining will be sent to religious indocrination camps especially Catholics-Democratic-physicians like me. AMEN
Posted by: Mr. Green Jeans | Aug 20, 2008 11:52:13 AM
Lie erman is d ouche bag! But so is McCain!
Posted by: Mickey Mouse | Aug 20, 2008 11:53:23 AM
funny how the morons on the right think that democrats were excited about whinny joe lieberman on the ticket with gore. guess again, lieberman was a primary reason gore didn't get to take office.
grampy mclame can have him and sissy boy lindsay graham.
you have to admit, when you see grampy talking, surrounded by the biggest losers in congress it highlights the failure a mcsame administration would become. you like bush, you'll love mcsame.
they have have whiny joe.
here’s their campaign slogan; grampy and grumpy
Posted by: tom | Aug 20, 2008 11:53:29 AM
I wonder how Howard Dean feels about this?
Posted by: LongT | Aug 20, 2008 11:55:25 AM
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