It's an ugly thing, to see him treated so shabbily.
The last 15 years or so have seen an awful degeneration of politics- it's all so personal and petty now, at least what I see from the Left is.
I long for the days of Scoop Jackson and Pat Moynihan, who you might not always agree with, but you wouldn't mind having them for neighbors, either.
This new bunch, I would not trust with my wallet, my wife, or my old dog...
I often think of Scoop- he must be rolling in his grave at this new breed of Democrats. And Moynihan...LOL..he'd have some choice words for them!
My son doesn't believe me when I tell him there were honorable opponents in "the old days"..:)
"...whatever we may contest about the Senator's positions, he's been a public servant for years- he must have done something right, to keep getting elected where he is."
Does that apply to Richard Byrd and Ted Kennedy too?
There is a lesson here: Liberals, in their quest for "purity" within the party, are destroying the party.
We have some conservatives that would like to do the same to the RNC.
We must have patience and continuously teach the benefits of conservative principles to the voters. It takes longer, but builds a more solid, long-lasting base.
This is typical of the left. Uncivilized and prepared to eat their own in a heartbeat. That is what happens when one's system of morality is held together by the cheap glue of relativism and moral equivalency. There is no room for differing opinions among rabid leftists, which make up the majority of the party's leadership now. If you have ever tried to debate with one of these people, you will understand what I mean. It usually will degrade into personal attacks once you have dissected their hollow mantras in front of them.
Joe Lieberman and I disagree on many fronts. But the man does indeed have a shred of decency and patriotism. The democrat party is a disgrace to humanity. If not an outright threat to freedom loving people everywhere.
It is worth mentioning, that socialists (PolPot, Mao, Stalin, et.al.) were responsible for more deaths of innocent men, women and children than any other organized ideology in history.