Joe Lieberman was the lone vote that prevented the ACA (Obamacare) from having a public option. Lieberman sided with insurance companies against Americans desperate for affordable health care because insurance companies paid him to. Up until today, Lieberman was working to find a 'No Labels' candidate who'd help get Trump elected by taking votes away from Biden. As a wise person once said: "If you're an asshole in life, you're also an asshole in death."
@maddenifico I am having a hard time showing compassion for this man. He was vile about Obama. He has worked to deny Biden a second term. He chose Republicans over Democrats countless times. And I wish Gore had never selected him as his running mate. He did him no favors.
@corsairbear @maddenifico oh, god, I'd forgotten the Gore running mate thing. no wonder Gore blew it
@corsairbear @maddenifico To be fair, the election was stolen from him and Gore. And the democratic party invited dick Cheney to give a speech on election integrity from the senate floor in 2021. This is part of why I don't vote for either of the two neoliberal parties anymore.
@corsairbear @maddenifico Gore's biggest mistake.
@corsairbear @maddenifico Lieberman COST Gore that election
@corsairbear @maddenifico He cost Gore the election. Democrats too often pick VP candidates for the inside-party reasons instead of to win.
@corsairbear @maddenifico His not becoming VP was the one bright spot in the whole 2000 debacle.
@corsairbear @maddenifico All Gore had to do was choose Bob Graham of Florida as his running mate (Graham was on the short list), and much of what went wrong during the past 23+ years wouldn't have happened or would have been less awful. Gore would have carried Florida with Graham on the ticket.
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