Lieberman: I'll Back Republicans in 2010

Sort-of Democrat says he'll 'call them as I see them'
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 30, 2009 11:28 AM CDT
Lieberman: I'll Back Republicans in 2010
Sen. Joe Lieberman holds a field hearing Tuesday April 7, 2009 in Hartford, Conn. as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.   (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)

Joe Lieberman says he “probably will support some Republicans in 2010” and may not seek the Democratic nomination in his own 2012 reelection campaign. “I’m going to call them as I see them,” he tells ABC News, saying he’s weary of “partisan, passionate, hardcore” legislators on both sides of the aisle. “Sometimes, the better choice is somebody who's not a Democrat.”

He says it’s an “open question” whether he’ll run as a Democrat, because he finds being an independent liberating. “You're not tied to a particular inner group and feel that extra pressure to march in lockstep. I think that the public generally is fed up with all the partisanship, and us against them.” He says he will, however, support Chris Dodd in his home state. (More Joe Lieberman stories.)

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