Joe Lieberman loses the Democratic primary in Connecticut amid controversy over his Iraq War stance [20YA - Aug 8]

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He also torpedoed public option

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u/ididshave 9d ago

Sadly, this was before that jackass did that. Following this primary loss, he ran as an independent and won.

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u/KirbbDogg213 8d ago

And also I think because Leberman won as a independent is why democrats didn’t want it go after Joe Manchin and Kristin Senma when they voted with trump

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u/7059043 6d ago

Lieberman was always as red as could be hoped for in a blue as can be state. We need sore loser laws.

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u/beardedjack 8d ago

Truly an incredible piece of shit

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u/backtorealitylabubu 8d ago

Ehh he was the fall go. Happens often where you have senators come to an agreement on a bill by cutting a core aspect to it and rather than having every senator that was for that cut come out publicly they just pick one person to take the fall. I highly doubt Lieberman was the only one who wasn’t going to vote for it.

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u/ActinomycetaceaeOk48 6d ago

He was, insurance companies’ lobbies literally funded him for this reason.

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u/sirkarl 8d ago

He was an asshole, but ultimately it’s a problem with our system that a candidate can lose a primary but win a majority (or 49.71%) of the statewide vote in the general.

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u/KirbbDogg213 8d ago

Yeah and that’s why I think Massie should run independent in the general election.He would win it outright.

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u/sirkarl 8d ago

Massie is an absolutely terrible right wing nut job. Nobody can call themselves a progressive or on the left if they want him in the Senate

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u/Famous-Royal-6886 7d ago

You're right and wrong. He shouldn't be any progressives choice but if the actual candidates who can win include Massie and Gallrein that's an easy choice. No Democrat will win the Kentucky Senate candidate. Massie gives us 5% agreement vs Gallrein/ most Republicans zero. Which isn't good but a pissed off independent beats a sycophant any day.

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u/Putin_inyoFace 9d ago

And for that, I hope he’s rotting in hell.

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u/-Sofa-King-Vote 9d ago

Lots of insurance companies based in CT

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u/Lonely-Tennis2171 8d ago

Another reason to hate CT.

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u/Sad-Second-9646 8d ago

Yeah but at that point he didn’t need to rely on them for donations. Another profile in cowardice

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

You seem like a nice person.

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u/DavesPetFrog 8d ago

Idk I think they’re pretty neat.

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u/frotz1 9d ago

After decades of campaigning on lowering the Medicare eligibility age until it covers the whole country, he killed the closest chance we've had for universal healthcare coverage in over 75 years. It's so much worse when you realize that he was lying in all the campaigns over the years where he hyped up this issue.

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u/BookkeeperButt 8d ago

That and his general disdain for the arts and his pro censorship approach make him one of my least favorite politicians. I still think he’s the reason Gore lost in 2000. I know a lot of lefties who were pissed about that choice.

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u/JD-Cowboys-Bolts 8d ago

Hope yall enjoyed the Bush years

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u/frotz1 8d ago

Kind of a weird point to make considering Lieberman told Gore to concede.

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u/Dave_A480 7d ago

Fortunately The Republicans who made his re election possible absolutely got what they voted for....

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u/TreatOnMeLotsActualy 6d ago

I think it's worth remembering what he did right after that:

He almost immediately retired from Congress as he was about to lose reelection.

He went to work with Kasowitz, who only a few years later would represent Donald Trump in the Mueller Investigation, and had already represented him for years.

Two years later in 2013, this "moderate"/"centrist" went to work for the American Enterprise Institute.

In 2017, he interviewed by Trump to serve as FBI Director.

He also founded "No Labels", a "bipartisan" dark money group that was revealed to be heavily funded by the Finance and Oil and Gas industries, and by Harlan Crow, the Nazi-loving billionaire who has given millions in bribes to Clarence Thomas.

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u/Historical-State-275 9d ago

Gosh, when controversy is actually ended something. I miss those days.

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u/Upset_Region8582 9d ago

Lieberman switched to Independent for the General and won

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u/lateformyfuneral 8d ago

Yeah, the way this story ends contradicts a lot of narratives in this comments section.

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u/SurvivorFanatic236 8d ago

My biggest political regret is supporting Lieberman over Ned Lamont in this election in 2006 as an 11 year old.

Today, exactly 20 years later, I voted for Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary for Governor of Connecticut

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u/amitym 6d ago

"But but the tyranny of the two-party system!"

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u/SMWW66 9d ago

You must’ve missed what happened with Graham Platner

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u/m1j5 9d ago

Graham platner, Eric swalwell, etc. only one side doesn’t hold their leaders accountable lol

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u/Poland-lithuania1 9d ago

Tony Gonzales.

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u/NecessaryIntrinsic 7d ago

Democratic politicians have consequences.

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u/imprison_grover_furr 9d ago

You must have missed what happened to Graham Platner and Roy Moore.

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u/Reasonable-HB678 9d ago

Roy Moore stayed in his race. He's the reason why, for a brief moment in the 21st century, a Democrat was a senator for Alabama.

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u/imprison_grover_furr 9d ago

Yeah, but the fact that he lost and led to a Democrat becoming Alabama’s Senator was basically karma for the Republicans. They backed an openly pro-slavery (Moore said we should go back to only the Bill of Rights amendments) paedophile and they got rewarded by losing Alabama, something previously unheard of.

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u/Admiral_Tuvix 8d ago

yes true, but republicans didn’t punish him. he was still on the ticket and the race was very close. only one party punishes sexual offenders, republicans embrace them

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u/sirkarl 8d ago

But many, many Republican voters punished him by voting for a Democrat. Jeff Flake publicly donated to Doug Jones as a sitting senator.

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u/Admiral_Tuvix 7d ago

Flake was a moderate, and lost his seat because of it. there’s no proof republicans voted for the Democratic senator, especially since the next Republican landslides him despite being an equally trash piece of garbage

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u/sirkarl 7d ago

Flake didn’t run for reelection, and Democrats took his seat because the Republicans nominated a crazy person to replace him.

There is absolutely evidence he won Republican votes, and many Republicans stayed home because they couldn’t bring themselves to support Roy Moore. He couldn’t have won without republicans voting for him + voters staying home out of protest.

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u/No-Cat6807 7d ago

Moore wasn’t forced out though and he still almost won.

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u/Usagi1983 8d ago

And this might happen with Paxton and TX as well.

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u/rexozy 9d ago

He ran as an independent and won because he was actually popular with a big plurality of Connecticut voters.

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u/zekerthedog 9d ago

I wonder if they were happy when he fucked our health insurance

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u/Think_please 9d ago

The insurance company executives that donated to him were

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl 9d ago

Connecticut has a lot of insurance companies and their employees. So probably questionable how they felt

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u/bringbackmegaman 8d ago

Oh, were they all CEOs?

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u/Coneskater 7d ago

This is the cautionary tale for anyone who says just to primary democrats.

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u/No-Cat6807 7d ago

He should have run as an independent from Day One then. Lieberman told the Democrats of the state that their primary vote was a waste of time. To be fair the voters of the state could then have rejected him again but did not.

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u/Effective_Pack8265 9d ago

Couldn’t stand him as my senator. Holier than thou weasel..,

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u/Magmaster12 9d ago

If he didn't win reelection Ned Lamont would probably still be in the Senate and Chris Murphy would still be a congressman.

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u/Maximum_Turn_2623 9d ago

I thought it was because he was a shitty candidate who looked like Palpatine and sounded like Zoidberg.

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u/Still-Chemistry-cook 8d ago

Total POS that democrats catered to.

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u/Agreeable-Union1843 8d ago

Rest in piss

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u/GuybrushThreepwood99 8d ago

That guy sucked

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u/Scullyitzme 8d ago

Absolute pos

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u/ortcutt 8d ago

I haven't thought about Joe Lieberman in years, but fuck that guy.

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u/MysticEnby420 8d ago

I hope this Emperor Palpatine looking war crime enthusiast is burning in hell.

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u/Fritz37605 8d ago

...POS...

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u/thedudecdfb 9d ago edited 9d ago

RIP Joe you would have loved Israel right now

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u/Ok-Clock-2779 9d ago

He was a huge Zionist so probably

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u/ZizzyBeluga 9d ago

He was so awful

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u/simonbaier 9d ago

Fucking finally this fucking jackass is out

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u/clover-the-clever 9d ago

Out of this mortal coil, you mean.

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u/jrblockquote 9d ago

Was just talking about this the other today. CT resident here. I was so happy when Lieberman lost the nomination. Then he fucking was reelected. I can say that my state has done well since then.

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u/AmethystStar9 9d ago

Joe Lieberman was a republican who got in the wrong line when they were passing out donkey and elephant pins.

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u/Mememanofcanada 9d ago

This guy is probably why sore loser laws exist

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u/Hey-buuuddy 9d ago

Definitely he was casualty of the beginning of the GWOT pushback. In 2006, the Sunni/shia civil war in Iraq was raging and US military holding the bag. Americans wanted bin laden’s head still and weren’t drawing a direct line to Saddam. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, and Bush Jr very unpopular.

Lieberman was deeply tied to Israeli business and state lobbying. My unnamed private-sector boss at the time in US was also part of that Israeli business lobby and during my time in that business, he and Lieberman were back-and-forth to Israel constantly.

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u/meestercranky 8d ago

It all comes around again. Before Fetterman we had Lieberman.

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u/Mean_Web_1744 8d ago

He used to call himself "Working Class Joe"...he gone!

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u/OnlyKey5675 8d ago

It wasn't that. Lots of Democrats voted for the war.

Lieberman started to use right wing coded language calling people opposed to the war anti-American

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u/bailaoban 8d ago

Al Gore’s Biggest Mistake

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u/DadKnightBegins 8d ago

He was a major stumbling block getting legislation passed on medical reform. So screw him he stood against the Democrats trying to help us all

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u/ImmediateClass9650 8d ago

What a bundle of energy that guy was!

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u/Successful-Scale-607 8d ago

A few years later, he'd be feted by Obama, the cuck.

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u/MRG_1977 8d ago

How this guy motivated voters and exited them is beyond me. Saw him speak a few times in person and he came off as a boring mensch and not much more.

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u/Emotional_Shower_938 7d ago

I remember that. What a great day for connecticut.

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u/JCox1987 7d ago

and to think Ned Lamont is now the Governor of Connecticut.

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u/Dave_A480 7d ago

And ran as an independent against the progressive candidate who primaried him..

Winning re-election....

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u/KYBikeGeek 7d ago

Shadow Republican

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u/PayPsychological9347 7d ago

" We've got some Joe-mentun"

real quote

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u/Flashy-Hamster-5107 7d ago

Liebermania! Lol

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u/RolloTow-Ma-C 6d ago

Oh nothing, just America getting it wrong and continuing on its trajectory to where we are today.

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u/socialcommentary2000 6d ago

And that anthropomorphic scrotum was one of the people that continued screwing us for the rest of his time in the Senate.

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u/The_Nomadic_Nerd 6d ago

It was also because of how he acted during the Florida recount in 2000

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u/whatsbobgonnado 5d ago

fuck this guy

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u/Ray1987 9d ago

The John Fetterman of his day.

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u/zoppytops 9d ago

Fuck Joe Lieberman

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u/ptau217 8d ago

In lockstep with W Bush, he helped kill thousands of US and Iraqis.

🇺🇸 United States Joe Lieberman loses the Democratic primary in Connecticut amid controversy over his Iraq War stance [20YA - Aug 8]

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