Joe Lieberman Not Invited To Party Conventions Apparently Some Sort Of Surprising ‘Snub’
Posted in: Today's ChiliI don’t know who, exactly, thought that Sen. Joe Lieberman was somehow destined to play a major role at one or more of the 2012 political conventions this year, but The Hill‘s Alexander Bolton is reporting that the fact he hasn’t been extended an invitation to either the Republican National Convention in Tampa or the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte is a “major snub.”
Why? Because he “played prominent convention roles in the past.”
Oh, right! Who could forget that time he was chosen by then-presidential nominee Al Gore to be the vice president, thereby ensuring that he would play a “prominent role” at the Democratic convention? In the years since, of course, Lieberman became a huge supporter of the Iraq War, fell out of favor with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, lost a primary as a result of that falling-out, re-emerged as an Independent, and returned to the Senate. He ended up at the 2008 Republican Convention because he was best buds with John McCain, who was running against Obama, the candidate who had emerged from the crowded field of Democratic contenders because of his specific opposition to the very war Lieberman fervently supported.
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