The Right State

For eighteen years Joe Lieberman has been a Senator.  He rose to national prominence when Al Gore picked the Connecticut Democrat to be his running mate for the 2000 Presidential election.  Joe has been a ‘good’ Democrat having voted against George Bush 92% of the time (I would call anyone who votes against the President 92% of the time an obstructionist) Then we were attacked on 9/11 and Joe Lieberman did the unthinkable.  He supported President Bush in his attack on Saddam Hussein and still supports it today.  But supporting the President in a time of war is unpopular with rank-and-file Democrats, so he Joe lost the Democratic Primary to single issue anti-war candidate Ned Lamont.  Throughout all of this Lieberman has shown remarkable tenacity and has decided to run for the Connecticut Senate as an Independent.  Leftist Democrats like John Kerry have come out against his decision to run for the Senate as an Independent.

The run to the left fringe continues for failed presidential candidate John Kerry.  The Massachusetts liberal went full scale on the attack against Connecticut US Senator Joe Lieberman on Sunday when he appeared with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

According to a report on the ABC web site, Kerry accused the 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate of “adopting the rhetoric of Dick Cheney,” on the issue of Iraq.

Just when I thought Joe Lieberman was showing some guts in supporting the war in Iraq specifically and the Global War on Terror generally, the Senator starts this ‘me too’ nonsense.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, attacked by fellow Democrats as being too close to the White House on the Iraq War, on Sunday called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign but said the United States cannot “walk away” from the Iraqis.

Democrats have earned their reputation as ‘cut-and-run Democrats.’  The lone exception to this rule was Joe Lieberman who saw the war in Iraq for what it was, a small piece of the GWOT.  As the Democrats turned against the war, the Main Stream Media obediently followed.  As the MSM began to toe the Democratic Party line, the American public who were only allowed to see the bad in Iraq began to buy into the ‘we can not win in Iraq’ mantra.  Joe’s primary loss to Ned Lamont was one of the results and seemed to have scared the Senator.

Not everyone is buying Lieberman’s change in positions.  Even Ned Lamont found the Senator’s newfound position on Iraq hard to swallow.

“His new found ‘criticism’ of the war won’t convince Connecticut voters after so many years of stubbornly rubber-stamping Bush’s failed policies,” the statement said.

What happened to the Senator’s renown independent streak?  Where are his guts?  I guess he is afraid of losing his seat in the Senate if he continues to unconditionally support the war.  While I did not like the old Lieberman very much, I dislike the new Lieberman even more.

Tags: Democrats, President Bush, Bias, Politics, War //