King is in! Angus King (I-ME) to run for Snowe's seat.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Though it's lost some of its former glory in recent years, I support Angus King's moustache joining Jon Hoeven's in the United States Senate.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How is he another Lieberman?

I guess because he's not a real Democrat, which still makes it a stretch to assume that he's a troll whose primary focus is to go out of his way to damage the Democratic Party.

King didn't endorse McCain/Palin either.

He endorsed Bush. That's even worse.

What? No it's not. He endorsed Bush in 2000. A lot of the following political alignment and discourse have been products of Bush's first term. Bush's 2000 run among other things trumpeted a 'humble' foreign policy, for instance...

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How is he another Lieberman?

I guess because he's not a real Democrat, which still makes it a stretch to assume that he's a troll whose primary focus is to go out of his way to damage the Democratic Party.

King didn't endorse McCain/Palin either.

He endorsed Bush. That's even worse.

What? No it's not. He endorsed Bush in 2000. A lot of the following political alignment and discourse have been products of Bush's first term. Bush's 2000 run among other things trumpeted a 'humble' foreign policy, for instance...

His foreign policy was only one aspect of his platform though. Bush was still very much a social conservative in 2000.

I might be misremembering 2000 (I was very young), but were social issues particularly trenchant at that point?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I might be misremembering 2000 (I was very young), but were social issues particularly trenchant at that point?

Despite Clinton's lingering popularity, both parties wanted to clean the slate after the Lewinsky debacle.  Republicans tried to play the moral high ground as best they could, with 'compassionate conservatism' as GWB's buzzword throughout the campaign.  Meanwhile, the Democrats gave us Joe Lieberman and Tipper Gore.

That's what I thought. I meant it didn't seem like there was a stark division on such matters going on between the campaigns the way there was in 2004.