So Many Republican Hypocrites, So Little Time

November 21, 2008 | SEND TO A FRIEND | GET EARLY NOTICE OF THE HOTW

Joe Lieberman

Welcome back to the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

The Senate Democratic caucus may have given Joe Lieberman a reprieve, but we can't.

Since we began publishing BuzzFlash.com in May of 2000, the gold standard for Republicans in high places has been brazen hypocrisy. That's why we created this special BuzzFlash site to "honor" those who practice the opposite of what they preach.

It's been hard choosing a "winner" each week, given that few Republicans are not hypocrites. It's their brand, after all.

Of course, every once in awhile comes along a Democrat who comes out of the closet as a Republican, and such is the case with Joe Lieberman.

Lieberman could be a Jewish James Dobson in that he oozes with such self-righteousness, while practicing the politics of fear and hysteria.

Joe bet that if he supported McCain, he might end up as the first person to run for vice president as a Democrat and then a Republican. Now that is an odd way to make it into the history books, but for Joe it was mission unaccomplished. Given McCain's loss at the polls, Lieberman couldn't achieve his fallback position to become a Republican Secretary of Defense.

After the Democratic caucus refused to punish Lieberman for his scathing attacks on not only Obama but also the idea that a 60-member Democratic Senate might be dangerous to the national security of America, Lieberman claimed that his lacerating comments about the President-elect and the Democrats had been misunderstood.

Well, Joe, the red meat crowd at the GOP convention knew exactly what you meant, just as they ate up the mocking intolerance Sarah Palin was ladling out to them.

After the Senate Dems let Joe keep his coveted Homeland Security Committee (at grave risk to our national security, given Lieberman's record as a Bush Administration cheerleader), he claimed that he has always been a Democrat, even though he changed his affiliation to Independent when he lost the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut in 2006.

Lieberman keeps telling himself and us that he is a man of integrity.

But he's not. He's a hypocritical opportunist with notions of empire and ambition that far exceed his grasp.

For that, he merits being named the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

Remember our motto: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.

Catch up with you soon.