Yale Daily News

Why doesn't Lieberman just register as a

Republican. If it waks like a duck, sounds like a duck, then it probably is

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Wow, it's true, Yale students really do need to learn to calculate:

Connecticut currently has 11 superdelegates to the convention, six of whom have declared their support for Obama and one of whom who is backing Clinton. The other five have not yet endorsed a candidate.

Connecticut Democratic Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo gripes that Lieberman "virtually turned his back on friends who did a lot for him over so many years.”

Yale College Democrats President Ben Shaffer argues that "when a high-profiled Democrat makes an endorsement of [a] Republican presidential candidate, it would be silly for him not to expect consequences."

We're talking about betrayal? Consequences? This is exactly what's wrong with partisan politics today. I long for a day when politicians do what they feel is best for the country, not what their party or "friends" tell them to do. Did anyone like it when Karl Rove used strong-arm tactics to milk support for his candidates?

While it is certainly logical to ask, or even require, a superdelegate to refrain from voting for a candidate whom the delegate does not support, it seems clear to me that there is an overwhelming tone of retribution in the decision to "strip" (i.e. penalize) Mr. Lieberman of his delegates. The Democratic Party should be ashamed of perpetuating the national scourge of partisan politics. Lieberman's vote isn't going to change anything - this was nothing more than a public reprimand in the name of a party law designed to discourage rank-and-file democrats from breaking from the party.

Just because he doesn't walk in lockstep with the Democratic leadership does not mean that he isn't a democrat. His record of voting in the senate shows that he is more closely aligned with dems than repub.

What about the party establishments betrayal of Lieberman because of his stand on the war? Where were his "friend" then? Why should he be beholden to them at this point in the game?

Lieberman would make a great Vice Presidential choice for McCain. It would virtually insure the largest Republican landslide in history.