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Lieberman Dem in Name Only

Posted Mar 31, 08 2:48 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Joe Lieberman is several months into his job as John McCain’s wingman, but, writing in Time, Michael Scherer sees shades of 2004 turncoat Zell Miller in the Connecticut independent's anti-Democrat tone. Scherer hears a “Republican general election argument” in Lieberman's claim the Dems are ruled “by a small group … that is protectionist, isolationist and basically … very, very hyperpartisan.”

Scherer writes that "the thematic coding is almost identical” to Miller, the Democratic senator who spoke at the '04 GOP convention, with Lieberman pegging McCain as the candidate most closely resembling John F. Kennedy. And Lieberman “has only begun his effort to exact revenge” for being thrown out by Connecticut Dems in 2006: Expect some Joe-mentum, Scherer says, at the GOP convention in September.

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Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, huddles with Sen. Joseph Lieberman.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
US Presidential hopeful Senator John McCain, foreground, and Senator Joe Lieberman.   (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Presumptive Republican nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain, right, and U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman.   (AP Photo/David Silverman, pool)
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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