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Maine Democrats Welcome Lieberman's Endorsement of Collins

by: Missy's Brother

Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 20:10:44 PM EDT

(Maine turns Sour-Joe lemons into lemonade: this is how to make an endorsement you're never going to get work to your advantage. - promoted by mattw)

From CongressDailyPM: Maine Dems Welcome Lieberman Endorsement Of Collins

Maine Democrats say the endorsement of Republican Sen. Susan Collins by Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman underscores a central argument in their challenge of the two-term senator next year: the war in Iraq. A political adviser for Democratic Rep. Tom Allen -- an unannounced but likely candidate against Collins -- said Lieberman's support for the war and Collins' support for the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tie her to the Bush administration's politically unpopular war policy. "I think the Lieberman endorsement is significant. For us, it's a gift," the Allen adviser said. "It paints a picture of Susan Collins with people like Lieberman and McCain, who support the war."

Joe, you are a complete asshole below:

Collins raised $837,000 in the first quarter, including a $5,000 donation from Lieberman's leadership PAC, and ended March with $1.2 million on hand.

And from Steve Abbott, chief of staff for Collins:

Collins' productive working relationship with Lieberman on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is a model of bipartisanship and demonstrates her moderate positions.

After reading the above, I laughed when I read the first comment:

Lieberman will be a big help. They improved Homeland Security by having Republicans and Democrats sit boy-girl dinner-party style instead of across the aisle from one another.

Gee, the next comment is from someone named Dan who was a Lieberman voter:

Lieberman needs to remember what state he "represents." He has not been home (that I know of) since the election, and has no represented the views of my state at all. I voted for him, believing his lies. Now, I'm going to go public with a little bit of a scandal: that Joe doesn't have a real address in Connecticut.

Link below:

http://hotlineblog.n...

Susan Collins - you're gonna get smashed during '08

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The Kiss Float needs a Maine driver... n/t (4.00 / 1)

by: notcho @ Tue Apr 17, 2007 at 00:23:45 AM UTC

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They hear ya (4.00 / 1)

http://turnmaineblue...

by: drowsy @ Tue Apr 17, 2007 at 00:38:32 AM UTC

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lol (4.00 / 1)

Can we have a kiss float too? (4.00 / 2)
Pretty please?
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by: Missy's Brother @ Tue Apr 17, 2007 at 01:08:27 AM UTC

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Coleman, Sununu, Collins... (0.00 / 0)

..are all likely losers in 2008--with any type of strong challenge. How they're going to distance themselves from Bush (and then haul water when needed with the requisite votes) will be one of the more interesting political acrobatic feats in the next 18 months.

by: Scarce @ Tue Apr 17, 2007 at 00:40:18 AM UTC

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Joe can give Susan more than his 2 cents (0.00 / 0)

He can suggest how to use $387,000...in undisclosed payments

because Connecticut voters count: http://www.CTVotersCount.org

by: BlastFromGlast @ Tue Apr 17, 2007 at 12:27:48 PM UTC

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Susan Collins (0.00 / 0)

Collins is about as impressive as cold oatmeal but she's hard to attack because she a hard worker who never complains with the best attendance record of any US Senator. Andrews needs to come up with a way to neutralize the real positives of Collins (hard worker, perfect attendance) so the debate can take place over her negatives (poor judgement, not a leader, DHS a disaster).

I think Andrews should go out of his way to acknowledge Collins' great attendance record and pledge to match it - and pledge to donate 1% of his salary to Maine charities ($1,652) for every vote missed not due to some catastrophic situation.

by: joejoejoe @ Tue Apr 17, 2007 at 17:15:35 PM UTC

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Every vote she makes for Bush's war (0.00 / 0)

..is another nail in her coffin--and she knows it. I still think we'll see her move away from BushCorp by next summer, maybe earlier.

by: Scarce @ Tue Apr 17, 2007 at 18:02:01 PM UTC

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From The Politico (0.00 / 0)

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"Asserting his status as an independent and his loyalty to a long-time friend, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said Thursday he is supporting the 2008 re-election of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, even though Democrats have already targeted her seat to try to keep control of the Senate.
"I'm going to support Sen. Collins' re-election," he said in an interview with CongressDaily reporters. Lieberman, who was re-elected last year as an independent but continues to caucus with Democrats, added that his leadership PAC has already made the maximum contribution of $5,000 to Collins' campaign.
"This is without regard to who the Democratic nominee would be," he said. "I would just feel that I was not being honest to myself and everything I've said about what our politics should be like now if, for partisan reasons, I didn't support somebody who I think is a great senator."
This is not going to make Lieberman any new friends on the left.

Typically hand twisting by LIEberman. Not being honest with himself? How about being honest with CT voters?

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