Controversial Independent Senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman told an interviewer that he will likely support and campaign some Republicans for the 2010 mid-term elections.
After endorsing Senator John McCain for the Presidency in 2008 and supporting President George W. Bush’s foreign policy throughout his tenure, Independent Senator Joe Lieberman will continue to rally support for many Republicans during the 2010 elections, according to
ABC News.
The former Democrat-turned-Independent Senator told
ABC News in an interview, “I probably will support some Republican candidates for Congress or Senate in the election in 2010. I'm going to call them as I see them. There's a hard core of partisan, passionate, hardcore Republicans. There's a hard core of partisan Democrats on the other side. And in between is the larger group, which is people who really want to see the right thing done, or want something good done for this country and them -- and that means, sometimes, the better choice is somebody who's not a Democrat.”
He further told
ABC that he does not know if he will seek the Democratic nomination in 2012. Lieberman added that he likes to be an Independent because he doesn’t feel binded to one party and just feels he can vote on what he believes in and what’s right. “I think that the public generally is fed up with all the partisanship, and us against them."
Last week, Lieberman stated he would join the Republicans in filibustering the health care bill, reports
CNN, which enraged Liberal Democrats across the nation. In 2008, Senate Democrats threatened to revoke Lieberman’s chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee but in the end they let him keep it because the Democratic leadership felt he would become a Republican, according to
Reuters.
In 2008, he also supported Senator Susan Collins in Maine, and New York Congressman Peter King.
