Posted on 12/02/2005 10:28:58 AM PST by wagglebee
Sen. Joe Lieberman stands virtually alone among Democrats after expressing his staunch support for the Bush administration’s handling of the war in Iraq.
An official with the liberal activist group MoveOn.org said the group might go so far as to back a Democratic challenger to Lieberman in next year’s Senate race, according to the Hartford Courant.
On Tuesday Lieberman published an editorial in the Wall Street Journal – reported by NewsMax – saying that his recent trip to Iraq convinced him further that the U.S. should not abandon "27 million Iraqis to 10,000 terrorists.”
The next day in an address on the progress of the war, President Bush said those who have called for withdrawal timetables, including 38 of the Senate’s Democrats, are "sincerely wrong.”
He went on: "As Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman said recently, setting an artificial timetable would ‘discourage our troops because it seems to be heading for the door. It will encourage the terrorists. It will confuse the Iraqi people.’
"Senator Lieberman is right.”
Lieberman was one of five Senate Democrats to oppose a Democratic-backed plan to require the president to set timetables for American troop withdrawals.
That has drawn some sharp criticism from the left. Tom Matzzie, Washington director of MoveOn.org, said: "The war on Iraq has all the characteristics of Joe-momentum,” recalling a slogan Lieberman used during the 2004 presidential campaign.
"Just like he didn’t realize his presidential ambitions were in trouble, he doesn’t understand the war in Iraq isn’t going anywhere.”
Matzzie – whose organization claims more than 50,000 Connecticut members, according to the Courant – said that if his members ask, his group would back a Democratic challenger to Lieberman.
He added that when he was in New Haven last month, he found "the No. 1 question people asked me was, ‘What are we going to do about Joe Lieberman?’”
Norman Orstein, political analyst at Washington’s American Enterprise Institute, highlighted Lieberman’s isolation among Democrats.
He told the Courant: "A consensus on the war is forming in the Democratic center, that it’s virtually impossible to set a withdrawal date, but there should be a change in our approach to the war.
"Joe is not in that center, and I don’t see anyone else in the party where he is.”
He was at his all time worst when associated with Al Gore. Seriously bad.
Seems he's come back to his senses.
I sense a strategic move to the center, along with Sen. Clinton.
Didn't like him when he ran with Algore but my respect for Joe Lieberman has increased steadily ever since then.
If you look at Lieberman's voting record, you will see that on foreign policy issues, he has never been in the center.
Moveon will support whomever the democrats nominate - be it Joe or anybody else.
and if anybody really listens to Leiberman - remember this: He said all kinds to things during impeachment, but when push comes to shove, he always takes a liberal slant. there is a serious disconnect between his words and his deeds.
IIRC: his very first vote was in obedience to the party chair in opposition to Robert Bork's USSC nomination. He said that he didnt' know which way to vote, so he followed the party line.
don't trust this weasel.
He was also one of if not the only 'Rats in the senate who was openly critical of BJ during the Lewinsky ordeal.
He's more conservative than some of the New England "Republican" Senators. All in favor of extending him an invitation to switch to Republican??
It would be an interesting spectacle to see MoveOn take on Sen. Lieberman in one of their patented propaganda campaigns. I think it would really tear off the binders of a large part of the American voting public.
I don't know...MOVEON, holds the purse here...George Soros and MOVEON told the dems after Kerry lost in 2004...that even though Kerry lost...
THEY (Soros and gang)..OWN the democrap party because they have spent so much money on them...which they continue to do...
Sooooooo...I am thinking that Soros is calling a LOT of shots here...even to the point of have Murtha spout off.
Move.On can fly a kite.
paging Ralph Nader
Source?
(sarcasm off thingee goes in this spot...)
I am told the head of Progressive Insurance is also behind this vulgar moveon.org gang. There are a few millionaires out to use money to grab the Democrat Party by the _______. So far they have been successful finding some of the most obnoxious people in America to work for moveon.org. You want a full view of what this group brings to the table? The Whoopie Goldberg diatribe in New York before the last presidential. Vulgar and ugly with John Kerry and John Edwards and wives laughing with her.
Senator Lieberman should consider this a blessing and a sign to come over to the right.
if the dems nominate Rush Limbaugh, moveon will endorse him before they endoerse any republicans. if they don't endorse anybody, they stop being a player.
when puch comes to shove, they will support whoever is wearing the democrat cloak - regardless of who it may be.
I wasn't aware MoveOn ever supported Lieberman.
MoveOn.org, the Nazi party, Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda....
All groups you should be proud NOT to have backing you.
I don't think they did, but they also never came out and said that they were seeking an opponent for him.
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