Posted on 11/29/2010 6:11:09 AM PST by Graybeard58
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., is prominent among Republicans and Democrats who are trying to form a centrist group under the banner "No Labels."
Sen. Lieberman has spent years cultivating a moderate image, but his constituents know him as a political chameleon. He's reliable on national defense and foreign policy, but on domestic issues, he's on the side his polling or ambition places him: He was for school vouchers and an avowed enemy of Hollywood sleaze as a senator from flinty Connecticut, but as Al Gore's running mate in 2000, he opposed school choice and went to Hollywood, hat in hand, peddling promises.
One of his possible successors in the Senate, Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, learned well from the master, running up a solidly liberal voting record while portraying himself as a moderate during his hard-fought 2010 campaign.
Give us a principled liberal or conservative anytime; at least they stand for something, have the courage to defend positions that may be unpopular or out of style, and won't play chameleon games for their own personal or political gain.
Principled liberal?
No such animal exists.
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Blah, blah, blah—blather blather.
Please, PHLEEEZZE—ANYTHING BUT them there conservatiives!!
HELP!!!
Here’s a label for you.
Pro-abort, Pro-sodom, Anti-family, Anti-Christian Coalition, or PPAC, pronounced “pee-pac”.
Wrks4me
Principled based on what standard? Every extremist who ever lived considered considered themselves “principled”. It’s a essentially element of the self image.
Joe the hyphenate is upon us once again...
Essentially = essential
There once was a Patrick Moynihan, or a Henry Hyde, but you are correct they are an endangered species. Certainly, Bill Clinton would have stood in the school house door in 1957, if he, rather than Orval Faubus, had been governor at the time. The left side is more congenial to the totalitarian personality and it tends to attract unprincipled peopled who find left wing platitudes a comfortable way to disguise (even, sometimes from themselves) an unseemly lust for power.
“Principled liberal?
No such animal exists.”
Ain’t that a truth.
No Labels has Joe-mentum. Also Bloom-bast.
KEEP THIS LYNG PRO-ABORT FANATIC OUT OF THE REPUB PARTY Lieberman cannot be trusted. During Clinton’s impeachment, this so-called "conscience of the Senate" went on and on condemning Clinton's behavior, but when the crucial vote came, he stood by Clinton. Lieberman is always plotting to get something for himself. He sucked up to McCain at the same time he wrote a huge check to Dems to keep his Dem bona fides.
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HERE'S HOW LIBERMAN LIED HIMSELF INTO OFFICE Lieberman is a staunch supporter of abortion rights, and even voted against banning partial-birth abortion six times in a row.
But pro-life leaders in Connecticut remember another Joe Lieberman. Lieberman made pro-life pledges about 20 years ago, when he was first a candidate for the US Senate. Lieberman sought pro-life votes in the final stretch of his 1988 Democratic bid to oust 18-year Sen. Lowell Weicker, a pro-abort Republican.
"Joe was very liberal, like Weicker, but we had a poll on abortion that showed which way the wind was blowing," says Daniel Cosgrove, then the Democratic town chairman in Branford, Mr. Lieberman's hometown. The poll showed anti-abortion sentiment outweighed pro-choice views in urban areas throughout Connecticut. "In the Waterbury area, it was more than any, 12,000 [more] against abortion," Mr. Cosgrove says.
Lieberman "expressed himself as coming from a tradition in support of life, not in favor of abortion on demand." "Lieberman expressed himself against abortion, all suicide, and euthanasia. His position on that definitely was well received by the Catholic hierarchy.
State Sen. Regina Smith, who conducted the pro-life poll for the archdiocese, arranged for Lieberman, then the state AG, to meet with Catholic prelates before the election to lay out his support for Catholic pro-life positions.
The strategy worked. Lieberman convinced the archbishop he favored pro-life positions and would vote differently than Mr. Weicker, thus winning Catholic support that pushed him to a narrow 10,000-vote victory — the only Democratic Senate upset of that year. Lieberman's winning margin was less than 1 percent of 1.4 million votes.
Written records of a meeting between Lieberman and top officials of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) two months after the 1988 election quote Mr. Lieberman as saying he "thinks there are too many abortions," and promising he would not "apply a litmus test" against pro-life judicial nominees.
Liar Lieberman today, of course, denies any of this ever happened.
An Orthodox Jew, Lieberman defends his pro-abortion, pro-infanticide record, saying Jewish law is deeply divided and Orthodox Jewry construes abortion as "a personal matter."
Leftists don’t like to be “labelled” because with those labels comes information about what they stand for and will do if they attain power.
This is why “progressives” (ie, fascists) of Wilson’s era became the “liberals” of the 60’s-90’s which again became “progressive” in the 2000’s.
Eventually, whatever the label, the “knowledge” of what they believe in becomes associated with that label. They have to destroy that “knowledge” that comes with that label.
Other examples:
Jungle became Rain Forest
Swamp became Wetlands
Bum became Homeless
Leftist ideology comes from their father, and carries the same native tongue of deception with it.
John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Principled liberal= One who is true to the sentiments of the moment. ( A year later, different moment, different sentiment. Expediency cloaked in solemnity. )
*Al Gore’s running mate in 2000*
Enough to know that you can’t trust him.
Re: John 8:44
Perfect.
Progressives/Liberals/Socialists/Communists/”Greens”/Fascists/Totalitarians/Statists/Nazis/Collectivists are *ALL THE SAME THING* in the end, in spite of the piddling minutiae of their ideological differences.
Their Goal is Big Government that controls everything we do, say, and even think.
The only things that really distinguish any of these groups from any of the others is methodology and the order of priorities.
The Goal is the same.
Liberals/Progressives/Marxists are all riding the same train. Each socialist program is merely a station stop on the line. The final destination is, ( and always has been): COMMUNISM!
A Chameleon ? A Charlatan is more apt.
The skunk !
The oxymoron of all time!
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