Lieberman seeks campaign boost with tougher rhetoric

[Freddie Stubbs]

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- No more Mr. Nice Guy for Joe Lieberman.

The mild-mannered Connecticut senator, his presidential campaign stalled in the Democratic Party's middling mass, is directing harsher salvos at President Bush and - most notably - his rivals.

He says Howard Dean probably can't get elected, accuses John Kerry of waffling on Iraq and calls Dick Gephardt's health care plan "big-government spending."

The most conservative of the field's nine candidates, Lieberman may finally be following the advice of frustrated advisers and even former President Clinton. Their counsel: Toughen your spine in a primary race dominated by liberal voters and angry partisans.

more: http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/statewire/hc-18011932.apds.m0247.bc-ct--demojul18.story

[el_gato]

1. what a loser

Too bad he can't direct some of that criticism towards bush.

If he wants to be a republican he should quit the democratic party.

[gottaB]

5. Somebody show him the door--before it's too late

If Lieberman gets the nomination, a lot of people are going to be quitting the Democratic Party.

[ikojo]

6. LIEberman's "tough" rhetoric

That's all it would be is rhetoric. He would sound tough but govern like a Republican. I agree that he, along with Zell Miller of Georgia and some others, just need to leave the Dem party.

I can assure you that a lot of working people will not be satisfied with a LIEberman for president campaign. It would be tough to get behind it that's for sure.

Of course the Jewish community, even the liberals, would encourage voting for LIEberman because he's "one of us." I don't like that line of thinking. He may be Jewish but he and I share very little in common philosophically.

Why do even Democrats cry big government when a program helps PEOPLE but not when they vote to bail out failing airllines like American?

[Lost4words]

2. I Might support Lieberman if

he was to take a comando squad into the WH and clean house.

[LWolf]

3. How sad

to see us reduced to being fed announcements that a politician will turn the volume of his statements up or down, or spin them any direction to boost a campaign, and it's just a normal part of the process. <sigh>

How about a candidate who speaks his mind...someone who, when he says something, we know he means it and is not stringing us along?

[Larkspur]

4. How Pathetic!

"I'm the only Democrat who can win in November of '04 because I can take on the president where he is supposed to be strong - on defense, security and values - and beat him where we know he's weak - on his failed economic policies and on his divisive, right-wing agenda," Lieberman told 75 supporters at Hyman's Seafood restaurant this week.

75 supporters! Dean's raking in thousands in Bush's home state and beyond because Dean is tough on Bush period.