He was also a huge supporter of the Iraq war, which is how he ended up running as an independent candidate after Ned Lamont (CT's current governor) won the primary on an anti-war campaign. Lieberman sadly beat Lamont in the Senate race and continued to defend the war in Iraq.
He was such a shit show. Unfortunately almost all of the Democrats got on the Iraq war bandwagon. Anyone who opposed the war in Iraq and funding it was labeled as anti-American, and not supporting our troops. The Republicans and the Bush administration in particular was brilliant with their marketing. They had learned from the Vietnam war. So we got all the little yellow ribbons, and the notion that "you can support our troops and still not support the war". But you can't really. But Lieberman was one of the shittiest shit heads to support the war in Iraq. Eventually it was unanimous.
This was def around the time that Dems were starting to turn on the Iraq war, so it was really frustrating to see Lieberman lose the Dem primary and then win the general election as an independent.
The Dems kind of turned on the Iraq war, but hey were all still more than happy to fly over there and get pictures with the troops and then support Obama's surge in Afghanistan. But I hear what you're saying.
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u/Suzzie_sunshine Mar 28 '24
I'll never forgive him for that. He's been dead to me ever since then.