According to this article, Joe Lieberman has said he might switch political parties.
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."
It's sort of a "Duh!" moment. Lieberman hasn't really been one of the moonbatty left for some time, and the wrangle he went through last fall to get re-elected left a bitter taste in his mouth for the Donkeycrats. He said to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday:
WALLACE: But looking at the three frontrunners — Clinton, Obama, Edwards — all of them in varying degrees expressing their opposition to the war and wanting to end our involvement there — could you support any presidential candidate who you didn't feel was committed to victory in Iraq?
LIEBERMAN: Well, you make a decision based on a whole range of issues. But obviously, the positions that some candidates have taken in Iraq troubles me. Obviously, I will be looking at what positions they take in the larger war against Islamist terrorism.
Here's where I am and maybe why it's — I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.
WALLACE: And we've got less than a minute left.
LIEBERMAN: Yes.
WALLACE: Joe Lieberman grew up in John Bailey's Connecticut, Democratic vice presidential nominee. You're saying you might vote Republican in 2008.
LIEBERMAN: I am, because we have so much on the line both in terms of the Islamist terrorists, who are an enemy as brutal as the fascists and communists we faced in the last century, and we have great challenges here at home to make our economy continue to produce good jobs, to deal with our crises in health care, education, immigration, energy.
I want to choose the person that I believe is best for the future of our country. What I'm saying is what I said last year and what I think the voters said in November. Party is important, but more important is the national interest. And that's the basis that I will decide who to support for president.
It is simply horse hockey when moonbats paint Lieberman as a DINO. He scored an 80 out of 100 by the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. Lieberman isn't Republican unless it is in the Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe way of being a Republican (that is, not very much).
No, the motivation for Lieberman is his dogged belief in the war in Iraq and his refusal to compromise on the issue. That refusal makes him a rather unpopular man with Democrats, who really don't give a damn whether he votes the way People for the American Way wants 85% of the time. The Democratic Party has determined that this war will be just like Vietnam, and they aren't likely to forget anyone who doesn't agree with that.
I'm not sure the Republican Party needs more Democrats like Lieberman in their midst. They do need more Democrats like Lieberman when it comes to supporting the troops for real.
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