"Joe", at his voting place this morning said he wanted to make it clear that he now an independent and that he will be VERY independent.
Can anyone say "Upset the donkey cart"?
Posted on 11/06/2006 9:03:18 PM PST by baseball_fan
/snip/ the political drama in Connecticut isn't just among the candidates. It has to do with the future of the Democratic Party -- and that future affects everyone.
What happened in this campaign was the materialization on August 8 of an ideological posse. Its mission was to punish a Democrat for the sin of backing President Bush in the Iraq war.
Now it gets a little complicated because there are many Americans who oppose the war as it has evolved. /snip/ but that's not because he [George Bush] was wrong in going in. He was moved by a conviction that Saddam Hussein was productively engaged in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, that he was in league with a terrorist movement that threatened the Middle East /snip/
Joe Lieberman agreed. He was hardly the only Democrat to back President Bush in 2003 /snip/ when a pleasant and wealthy young man in Greenwich, Conn., volunteered to head up the posse, he got the backing of the Democratic left. And when the showdown came, the ideological avengers won /snip/
This meant to the population at large that hard-bitten Democratic leftists were bidding for control of the party /snip/
But of course almost immediately Senator Lieberman announced that he would run as an independent. This gave the dissenters in Connecticut -- Democratic, Republican, and independent -- an opportunity to vote against the execution of the prominent and effective incumbent, who has thought and acted in what he believed the national interest /snip/
/snip/ The left is eager to assert itself as the true heir of the Democratic tradition, even as in 1948 /snip/ It failed, and may fail again. But much depends on how much life there is in the opposition, and the first challenge is to vote to retain Joe Lieberman in office.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
we know what it took to defeat communism. we are called once more to defeat a tyranny with global ambitions. vote not to cut and run!
Joe Lieberman /snip/ wlll be vindicated /snip/ tomorrow...I mean today!
When you think the Demorat party couldn't say enough good things about Joe Lieberman when he was their VP candidate two years ago and now they do this to him - - that says a lot about a party on it's last, desperate legs.
60-40 split (non-Lamont/Lamont) in vote will also demonstrate the absurdity of the media + DNC spin over the past year.
I disagree with Buckley on the war...and his contention in his secret musing Bush might regret it...
But Buckley has basically laid out what I've tried to say again and again when the FEW do not get why MOST conservatives are backing Leiberman. It isn't about party. It isn't about conservatism. It's about the future of the Dem party and by default the future of this country. Short sighted People can pretend otherwise but it is NOT recommended to have only ONE party pro-America and pro-our National Defense. Especially when that one party has losers like Hagel and other weaseals like Linds tha are not reliable.
The Kos/Lamont Dean/Kerry Carter/McGovern wing MUST be defeated. That means more Leiberman's MUST survive in that party and grow in influence. Leiberman is the first means to make that happen. Any conservative that can't see that, well, time to drop the partisan glasses and take a reality check.
And I look forward to Lieberman's win.
This is both snarky and unintelligible. I agree with the main premise of his article, but don't know why he has to sideswipe Pres. Bush along the way.
Has anyone thought that this is the beginning of the break up of the Democratic party. There are conservative Democrats out there, both socially and fiscally. They are looking to lay their hats on a party that represents their values. Hey! they may not like the Republican party, but they like many of its core beliefs.('Zell Miller' comes to mind.) This has been going on for 30 years. It's part of what was the Reagan Revolution. Anyway it is a thought to ponder, we my see a new party based on disgruntled Democrats who don't want to jump to the Republican party.
It'll basically come down to one of the following.
1) Hard left wins and the Dems become a permanent minority party within a few more election cycles.
2) Lieberman wins and retakes the Democrat party for Truman/FDR/JFK Democrats.
3) Lieberman is forced to lead a "new" party, which will probably consist of pro-WOT/American Liberal Democrats and Liberal Republicans.
I'd rather one of the last two happen. I don't mind fighting Liberalism. Sure, Republicans can't make unforced errors with a stronger Liberal Party and expect to win but it'll sharpen our senses and I think we can take them philosophically in the end. In the interim of the fight at least they won't be joining forces with the terrorists.
The first means the Rep Party will stuggle not to atrophy against meager intellectual offerings by the opposition, and that the Hard Left will keep doing things like leaking national security secrets.
Yesterday there was a story about Lieberman marching in some campaign event with a republicn congresswoman seeking reelection.
"Joe", at his voting place this morning said he wanted to make it clear that he now an independent and that he will be VERY independent.
Can anyone say "Upset the donkey cart"?
Neat.
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