Benedict Lieberman?

Sen. Joe Lieberman, now an "independent" said today that he's not ruling out supporting a Republican for the White House bid in 2008. Yes, the same Joe Lieberman who was once the Democratic Party's candidate for Vice President. That one.

He said, today,

"I'm going to chose whichever candidate that I think will do the best job for our country, regardless of the party affiliation of that candidate," the Connecticut senator told reporters in the state capital Hartford.

The above is basically a cop-out. I'm all for people investigating the options and the candidates, but honestly, Joe...you're just doing this for attention. In fact, you really only do things for that sole purpose. Otherwise, if you were true to values, you wouldn't flop like a fat kid in a pool on a warm summer day.

Further, he said

"I'm not going to get involved until after both parties have their presumptive nominees and, frankly, to see if there is a strong independent candidate," he said.

Oooooh. An independent candidate. Like him maybe?

Going on...

"There's a lot on the line both in terms of the terrorist threat that we face but also all the things here at home that seem broken: our health-care system, our education system, the environmental problems we have," he said.

Oh...right. Those pesky environmental, economic, educational and health-related problems. That sounds like a list of problems best solved, historically by the Republican party. Oh wait. That's the opposite of the truth.

I'm so sick of this guy who basically didn't get his way with the Democratic Party and was not supported in his own presidential bid (as a Democrat) or his fourth bid for the senate (as a Democrat) because of his ardent and ill-advised support of GWB and the Iraq war. Now he basically thumbed his nose at the party that supported him all of these years and is elected as an independent...fine. But when he spouts off like this it makes me so angry...cut the games, Joe. You aren't cool anymore.

Ironically enough I got that picture above from a conservative website. It's still funny though.

I'm sorry, but "independent" is usually another way to cop-out.