What the hell is Lieberman's strategy?

[ButterflyBlood]

he seems to think he can win the Democratic nomination by being as much like Bush as possible before the primaries, and now has stepped it up with his attacks on McGovern and Dean. What the hell is his plan?

[ibegurpard]

1. Maybe he thinks he'll get disaffected Republicans

Problem is, he has zero charisma.

[poskonig]

2. Maybe he is trying to win South Carolina.

Lieberman perhaps thinks he can ignore Iowa and NH and win a lot of southern states after pulling off South Carolina, where he leads. A plausible theory.

Then again, Lieberman may sincerely believe that running as a Bush-supporter helps him in a liberal primary, an egregious mistake.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Go for the middle and the right and fuck the left

Not really. On many domestic issues he still stands on principle but those votes PALE in comparison to his bending over for the military industrial complex.

[Frances]

4. I think he honestly believes that his stands

are the best ones. It's just that most Democrats don't agree with him. Even if he got the nomination, we would be in the famous Truman situation. Given a choice between a Republican and a Democrat acting like a Republican, the voters will go for the real Republican.

[sfecap]

6. Just like they did with congress in 2000...

n/t

[NYC]

10. That's precisely what came to my mind.

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[sfecap]

5. He's trying for the rethug VP slot.

He's good friends with the Cheney's, and he knows that Dick's pacemaker is wearing out.

He thinks by kissing *'s ass, and being Karl's whore, he can be the first "democrat" to get the republican VP slot.

It's brilliant!

[BayCityProgressive]

7. Maybe he wants to lose in a bigger landslide than Mcgovern?

[not systems]

8. bash away for bush from the inside

Get a big pay off?

Stand on principle?

Keep his seat on the board of the Nixon library.

That is my best guess.

[dfong63]

9. maybe it's a principled stand

maybe he really believes what he's saying, and thinks he can convince the public that he's right. whatever the reason, i think we should be glad he's unabashedly showing his true colors - for better or worse. whether you agree or disagree with him, at least he has the guts to declare himself a candidate, and be judged on his platform - unlike, say, Weasley Clark.

[not systems]

11. agreed

He is standing on his principles.

I disagree with much of what he says and
does but my impression is he believes in
what he says.

I would contribute to a person running for
his seat if they were less supportive of
Bush's agenda and Democratic.

[Andromeda]

12. Lieberman just showed...

what a petty, two-faced, phony DLC pawn he is by dissing Howard Dean. He did more to discredit himself than Dean.

It's unbelievable that he thinks the Democrat who gets the nomination should be a Bush-lite like he is. Lieberman's lips are permanently imbedded on the boy king's rear end.

He can go straight to hell as far as I am concerned. I didn't like him before he made his cutting comments about Dean and I like him even less now. I hope he goes down in flames (figurativy speaking, of course).

[Jim Sagle]

13. To cripple the Dems and elect w.

[JackSwift]

14. His plan is to occupy the middle and right of the party

which he has all to himself, leaving the other eight to fight over the left. It's a sound strategy politically, however unfounded in the reality that the donors and activists are all far more liberal. I'll vote for him if he's the nominee, but I'm confident that is a bet I won't have to pay off.

[oasis]

15. No plan. The man is in a state of delusion.

He's really ticked about Dean being featured on Newsweek and Time while his campaign goes wanting for cash.

He hopes to paint Dean as weak on defense/security and himself as the only Dem who can reassure Americans on those issues.

The trouble is, when he's through trashing the others, some of the security stuff will stick to the party.

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[dkf]

17. That's not strategy

that is desperation.

[cosmicdot]

18. wants to shore up his Nixon Center Board seat ...

... he wouldn't want to lose out rubbing elbows with Republican & neocon heavies like Henry Kissinger, James Schlesinger, the Blackstone Group's Pete Peterson, Brent Scowcroft, Charles Krauthammer, Robert C. McFarlane and the other Nixonites ...

Quite framkly, I can't understand how one can be described as principled, and serve on the Nixon Center Board as a Democrat ...

http://www.nixoncenter.org/boardac.htm