Posted on 08/10/2006 7:28:42 AM PDT by IrishMike
The narrow primary defeat of veteran senator Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary is more than a loss for one man. It is a loss for his party and for the country. It completes the capture of the Democratic Party by its Taliban wing.
They used to be "San Francisco Democrats," a phrase coined by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick to describe the party's 1984 convention. But they have now morphed into Taliban Democrats because they are willing to "kill" one of their own, if he does not conform to the narrow and rigid agenda of the party's kook fringe.
Lieberman's one "sin," in the eyes of the Taliban Democrats, was that he supported the effort to defeat the insurgent-terrorists in Iraq. As a Jew, Lieberman is particularly sensitive to those who have targeted the Jewish people for extinction. But even if he weren't Jewish, he would still "get it," because he understands what's at stake in the region and has correctly concluded that the consequences of American failure in Iraq would be catastrophic.
His detractors, who brought him down in the primary with a one-issue, inexperienced and unqualified candidate, Ned Lamont, hate President Bush so much that their judgment has been distorted. Former Bill Clinton aide Lanny Davis, in a recent column for The Wall Street Journal titled "Liberal McCarthyism," printed a sample of the incendiary rhetoric directed toward Lieberman. There is thinly-veiled anti-Semitism ("As everybody knows, Jews ONLY care about the welfare of other JewsŠ" posted on Daily Kos); irrationality ("Joe Lieberman is a racist and a religious bigot." Daily Kos) and personal attack ("Lieberman cannot escape the religious bond he represents. Hell, his wife's name is Haggadah or Muffeletta or Diaspora or something you eat at Passover." Posted on the Huffington Post blog).
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This is why they loath the military. It is PRIMARILY us. And it has really big guns. And Tanks, radar thermal optics and Aircraft. Few of them want to participate - that whole discipline thing gets in the way of their hedonism.
They have tried to get gays to join "Ooh look at all those young, hot, men" but few of them go for it if they can't have orgies in the barracks.
...Regarding your first vote, my tagline is his birthday. There will never be another like him.
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Don't be so negative !
Like Texas, basic at San Antonio, Technical at
Shepard ( Witchita Falls)
"I see the French Revol. by these nutty leftist Dems."
I can't wait.
I can understand the temptation but to lump Lieberman and Zell Miller together shows a great misunderstanding of the character of Zell Miller and does him a great disservice. I have no problem letting letting Lamont take the Rats further left. Leiberman was a baby killer and good riddance. Miller is much farther right of Lieberman than Lamont is left of him and Lamont will just help bring clarity to the depth of the dangerous craziness of the Democratic Party.
This was reprinted in a Pakistani paper as well:
http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?152266
They really understand the term "Taliban Democrats".
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