Inflatable Rat Follows Lieberman To RNC

Not that Joe Lieberman needs a thirty foot tall inflatable animal to remind him of who he is, but it certainly is comical that there are enough passionate activists out there to do it anyways. The increasingly hawkish Senator Lieberman turned his back on his party and now he's practically a Republican. So what better animal is there to represent him than a big nasty rat.

From The Stamford Advocate:

If Lieberman's detractors get their way, their prop would be a 30-foot inflatable rat, the kind unions typically use when construction workers cross picket lines.

"The 30-foot rat is a big rat. A 12-foot rat you can kind of put in the back of a pickup truck A 30-foot rat you have to put on the back of a flatbed," said Ed Anderson, a New Haven Democrat who helped start the Web site DumpJoe.com.

A spokeswoman for Lieberman, who has broken party ranks to endorse McCain, said the self-described independent Democrat hasn't been invited to the GOP convention.

"At this time, there are no plans (to attend)," said Erika Masonhall, Lieberman's press secretary.

Lieberman outraged many Nutmeg State Democrats when he came out in support of his longtime friend McCain for president. To many of them, the move was the latest insult to the party by the man they call a "Democrat in name only."

Lieberman isn't even a DINO, he's lower than that, and thanks to the Democratic voters in Connecticut, he's officially an "independent" politician that had to form a party just for him. It would make a great photo-op to see the inflatable rat next to the real-life version but he doesn't have to show up to the convention in Minneapolis, his support for McCain, the war in Iraq and war in general is plenty for our party.