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Democrats attack Gore’s decision
[Edited for brevity]
Democratic presidential aspirants met in New Hampshire for the last debate of year, but the campaign was overshadowed by Al Gore’s endorsement of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. Sen. Joseph Lieberman lashed out at the former vice president Tuesday, saying he was surprised Gore would back a candidate who "will take this party back to where we were before [President] Bill Clinton wherever that was."
Traitor!
"I don’t have anything to say today about Al Gore’s sense of loyalty, I’m not John Kerry; I can’t use those kind of words in public" said Lieberman, who had waited to announce his candidacy until after Gore said he would not run in 2004. "I have no regrets about the loyalty that I had to him."
Traitor!
But he said he was caught off-guard. "I was surprised about the decision. I was surprised that Al Gore didn’t notify me before I learned about it from the media — that would have been the right thing to do. I was surprised that Al Gore would endorse a candidate who stands for so many things that Al Gore has not stood for."
Traitor!
Al Gore stands for something?
He added that it’s "a snowball’s chance in Hell less likely now " that Gore could play a key role in any future Lieberman administration. According to a Democrat close to Gore, the former vice president had placed calls to Lieberman and his staff once word was leaked Monday that he planned to endorse Dean,
Neener, neener!
but the calls were not returned.
Brief vision of the old cartoon, a bride and groom strutting down the sidewalk past a church, another bride waiting on the steps, the groom asking, "Didn't you get my note?"
Sen. John (Pottymouth) Kerry of Massachusetts stood by Lieberman. "I was [censored] sort of surprised today, [censored] actually, by the [censored] endorsement, because I [censored] thought that Joe [censored] Lieberman had shown such [censored] extraordinary [censored] loyalty in delaying his own [censored] campaign, that it [censored] surprised me," Kerry cursed said to applause from the audience.
F**king Traitor!
Prior to Tuesday’s endorsement, a source told CNN that Gore — the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in 2000 — thinks a protracted primary campaign would serve only to help President Bush.
So now that I’ve decided to make a King, you other losers drop out
Erik Smith, a campaign press secretary for Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri, sounded as if the Gephardt team was surprised by the news.
Traitor!
"Dick Gephardt fought side-by-side with Al Gore to pass the Clinton economic plan, pass the assault weapons ban and defend against Republican attacks on Medicare and affirmative action. On each of these issues, Howard Dean was on the wrong side and still is," Smith said.
I never tried this before. It IS fun.

Fred, I tried to link to the title but didn’t work right. Is the link too long?
Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-10
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=22492