WASHINGTON (CNN) – It seems that what could have been one of the greatest political face-offs of 2012 is not meant to be after all.
A day after Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman welcomed a possible 2012 challenge from actor Alec Baldwin, a representative for Baldwin tells CNN that "it's great to see the excitement" about the possibility of Baldwin seeking political office but the actor has no plans to run against Lieberman.
In a statement provided to CNN, the actor also took a stab at Lieberman, who has sometimes allied himself with Republicans, particularly on the Iraq war and Middle East policy.
"Part of me would hate to see Lieberman go," Baldwin said in the statement, because there are so few moderate Republicans left in the Senate today."
When asked about the possibility of facing Baldwin in 2012, Lieberman responded with a Dirty Harry-esqe "Make my day" on CNN's State of the Union Sunday.
Related: 'Make my day,' Lieberman says of Baldwin
"I respect Alec Baldwin as an actor and as a comedian," Lieberman also told CNN's John King, "if he wants to run, that's his right."
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Alec Baldwin, showing us once again that you do not need any intelligence at all to be a (liberal) actor.
HA! That is great. Baldwin knows Lieberman so well. He is a political opportunist and a piece of trash.
Lieberman is a joke. A much funnier one than any Baldwin SNL skit.
Blow in the wind Lieberman. We can rid ourselves of people like this with TERM LIMITS. The government badly needs some new people.
Didn't Alec Baldwin promise he would move out of the country when Bush got elected!! Promises, Promises, why is he still here and why does CNN think he is relevant to anything?
and Alec Ballwin is ???????????
Senator Baldwin!?
When fat little pigs fly!!
Alec Baldwin would clean Joe Liebermann's clock.
Joe barely made it past his last election.
Joe has ask himself if he feels lucky.
"Well do ya' punk?"
Liberman is a Republican and needs to go.
Joe,
You will have no chance non whatsoever to be elected ever again in this country, you are a disgrace to the Democratic Party you just act like the leftist thugs no principal whatsoever and we also know where your priorities lies.
Lieberman personifies the stereotype of a self-serving chameleon. The one thing about him that does not shape-shift is his primary allegiance to Israel instead of America.
Baldwin is another arrogant, elitist liberal jerk (not as dumb as Maxine Waters, who I am sure cannot even spell neanderthal). Remember his rant against his daughter? This is what the liberals are made of and why they are so repugnant.
Wait a second – I thought that JL said that he had no plans to run in 2006. Then when he changed his mind on that, he said that this would be his last term. Did he change his mind again? Is he looking to run again in 2012?
What can you trust coming from the mouth of this guy?
Joe – enough already. Serve your constiuents best by retiring already!
Baldwin is an idiot.
for gawd sakes, the entire Democrat party has been hijacked by the far Left Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Barney to name a few. And he's worried about "moderate Republicans"
Baldwin doesn't get it either
Alec, tell your script writer "good one!"
Joe goes Hollywood, but I do not think talking tough becomes Jumpy Joe. He just isn't cowboy enough.
I wonder some times, how lame do you have to be to worry so much about whether Maxine Waters can spell.
Baldwin's a dolt.........!
Didn't Baldwin move to to Europe in protest over Bush's re-election???? Maybe he just threatened it because he's a sore loser.
Baldwin is a jerk and not even a good actor...Anyone who would publicly cut up their daughter in public is not to be trusted–no smarts, just arrogance of " typical" leftists. Fortunately, most of them are eating crow right now with their leader's popularity plummeting. What a liar and hypocrite Obama turned out to be–giving Soros' company oil drilling in Brazil. No wonder gas prices are not coming down. "change you can not believe in?"
Good ol' Sleepy Joe, getting tough. Careful Joe, remember you are the man that couldn't beat a bumbling, stumbling, simpleton from Texas. I admit Balwin isn't a rocket scientist but he does have a little more personality than W. Baldwin may put a beat down on ol' Sleepy Joe.
Alec Baldwin is the south end of a north bound horse.
All the people in Connecticut : Vote the middle-East envoy out comes 2012, and make my day !!
Hey CNN, this is not news.
Connecticut : vote the middle-East envoy out comes 2012, and make my day !!
As the ticker libs show, when you are so far to the left like Baldwin, Obama and those ticker obama-bots that you are almost about to fall off the earth, Joseph Stalin seemed like a right winger to you. When you think great moderates of history include Marx, lenin, and today Obama and Chavez, then sure, Joe is a moderate republican to you. Keep in mind that to most liberal Democrats in America today, if you were to show them the things that JFK championed like tax cuts but excluded his name, they would say that that politician is a right wing, religious wacko, extremist, racist, hick. The average Democrat in America today is so far to the left that they walk around like the people in that V8 commerical from a few years back.
Lieberman better wake up and pick a side! If he doesn't support the presidents health care proposal, including a public option, he is going to loose his seat to Alec Baldwin.
The entire republican party has been hijacked by the 10% of the wing nuts in the birther movement.
We need to have term limit to get rid off out of touch, and life time polticians out of office!
If Alec Baldwin had a brain, he'd take it out and play with it!
His brother Stephen would stand a much better chance.....as if ANYONE could beat Lieberman in Conneticut.
Moderate or not, Jowly McJowlyface is a world class moron. His commentary that "There’s no reason we have to do it all now," not to mention his "reasoning" behind it, was at best proof that he's had a stroke or two and at worst a sign that the entirety of CT is morbidly retarded. I'd like to hear his reasons why "we had to do it all then" with respect to Iraq...you know, in light of finding out that every single justification given was a lie. Give him his walking papers CT...he's as useless as a textbook in rural TX.
Alec is a little late to the party. By the time he goes against Lieberman, people are going to be so fed up with democrats spending, they'll vote anyone into office who doesn't call themselves a democrat.
Is Baldwin still a US citizen? I thought he said he was moving to Canada if Bush defeated Kerry. Guess you can't take him at his word, which would actually make him qualified to run as a Dem.
What I find beyond funny is when loony libs like Baldwin attempt to play conservatives on TV, as if you cannot see the evil lib in his eyes. Besides, the head of GE a right winger, you can't write a script that is as far removed from reality as that.
What makes these Hollywood idiots think they know more than everyone else? I am sick of these uneducated actors and actresses, with inflated egos, using their celebrity to spout off their Marxist ideas.
Someone needs to tell them that they make fools of themselves. Although who on earth would even listen to them? They are jokes.
I am sure our leaders in Washington would love to see Baldwin as one of them. He would make them all look brilliant.
I have no idea what Alex Baldwin's political opinions are, but he better not run. All we will hear for the entire campaign will be that tape recording of him excoriating his young teenage daughter after she apparently got in the middle of his hideous divorce proceedings. I just can't listen to that over and over again.
No way...I want Bush again. He kept us safe .....just ask the 3000 dead people who lived in New York...he kept us safe from that. It never happened!
And who wrote that line?
Alec has proven himself to be irrational and with a bad temper. He has been abusive to his wife and daughter. He makes millions of dollars on films while employees of those film made minimum wage and without health benefits. He spends his money living like a king...is he really fit to represent the people of CT? I think not.
Joe Lieberman has been an outstanding leader and moderate and compromised for good results in the past. I'm independent and I myself, my Democratic and Republican friends more than not agree with Joe's positions on a variety of topics....there is no contest, Joe Leiberman well outshines Alec Baldwin any day of the week.
oh snap! you got owned Sen. Leiberman!
Senator Joe Lieberman Is Nothing More Than A Modern Day Benedict Arnold. With Friends Like Joe "Satans Advocate!" Lieberman And Infidels Like Senator Kent Conrad And Other So Called Blue Dog Democrats. I Can See Why The President's Having His Work Cut Out For Him.
I am far from being a huge Alec Baldwin fan . . .but in this case, he is right . .Joe Lieberman is a joke! It is an utter embarrassment that he holds any position in our government at all.
If anyone ever reads "America: The Book, A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction" from the Daily Show team, there is a page in the book that talks about different Special Interest Groups. One of which is Hollywood. On the page it says "Stated Agenda" and "Unstated Agenda" for the different groups. For Hollywood it reads "A Baldwin in the White House by 2016."
The irony of this story makes me laugh.
I thought he moved to Canada!
You clowns really think this is news?
Notice Leaberman doesn't respect Baldwin as a father or as a human.
Definitely has a point. He is one of the few moderate repubs lefts.
Dear Alec Baldwin:
You're a joke. Please shut up.
Love -
The American Public
i loath this man. this alic b. may the hand of god come down and.... oh he is a very very disgusting man. so america, why do you elect or take serious morons like this? why why why? hmmmmmm, lets see, i guess its cause were all morons ourselves.
Hey Alec – dance for me, Jester!
If the Republicans hadn't been encoraged to vote for Lieberman, as opposed to their own candidate, he wouldn't be a senator today. He's owes his office to the right-wing, and his recent statement about healtcare is evidence of that.
I think Alex Baldwin should have left USA long time a go as he threatened to do. I can tell him its not to late.
What is his prerequisite other than being another liberal actor idiot who thinks they know everything about politics??
For all you neo-tards who worry why Baldwin didn't leave the country due to previous election results, its time to update your electoral facts, especially as regards the election results in MN. If you haven't heard yet (maybe FoxNews hasn't reported it yet?), the [D]s won, bigtime in 2008...in MN too! So it should come as no bad-loser surprise to you rightwingers that Baldwin is back and happy.
Now, lets focus on this recent election history: many of your own rightwing buddies recently made the same comments that Baldwin previously did concerning a move out of country based on election results. I certainly hope that you'll hold your rightwing friends to their mindless boasts. Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!
Dear Alec Baldwin:
You're a joke. Please shut up.
Love -
The American Public
It is a pleasure to read comments like those from Doug, New Jersey. The depth of such considered analysis reveals the true intellectual engine behind the base of the [R] party, and it stands as a shining example of why this country, despite all of its strengths, struggles mightily to avoid slipping back into the Dark Ages instead of forging ahead and playing a significant role in the modern world.
When will Hollywood realize that the vast majority of them have a great gift in their talent to act. And then just let it go. I've seen celebs. on "Jeopardy" who have really shocked me with their rank stupidity. Sam Waterson was one. And when I see him doing investment commercials, he's so convincing. Just goes to show..........!
Baldwin sure isn't any rocket scietist altho I think he is one of the most talented actors today. HIs "tirade" on a recorded phone call to his daughter calls into question his judgement & discretion at the very least, not to mention his perchant for drink.
Ct. is a wealthy, sophisticated State with a well-above average education & personal wealth. Compared to Joe, he's in WAY over his head. But then, that's what those with huge egos think of themselves. Luckily, most of us see through it. And I'm not even from Connecticut!
Alec Baldwin is nothing but a big lugnut. He doesn't always tell the truth. He previously stated that if Bush won reelection he was going to move out of the country. I understand he is still here, complaining. Personally I wish he would move, we would be better off.
Liberman is a republican in disguise, who does he think he is fooling.