Posted on 08/09/2006 6:05:41 AM PDT by IrishMike
I am not Jewish.
I have never been to Israel.
I am not a Democrat in Connecticut or elsewhere.
But hearing a Connecticut Democrat on the local radio across the Long Island Sound sneering that Joe Lieberman is the Senator "from Israel"...In truth? I almost ran off the road.
I feel sorry for Democrats. Sort of. The party of FDR, Harry Truman, and JFK has come to this? More to the point, a member of the party that had Harry Truman recognize Israel literally within minutes of its announcing its existence is now of a mind to defeat a senior Senator...because he's Jewish?
Welcome to The Chasm. It is almost possible to feel it splitting the common American ground as it falls away. It has happened before.........................
Much has been made by his far left opponents of Lieberman's willingness to play the hands-across-The-Chasm Douglas and Nixon roles. Yet the confluence of Israel's recent vulnerabilities mixed in with the battle for Iraq has suddenly -- or not so suddenly? -- drawn anti-Semitic venom. Is it a surprise that Lamont has accepted campaign help from Jessie "Hymietown" Jackson or Al Sharpton, the latter of whom has made a career railing against "diamond merchants"? All of this while Israel is fighting for its very life against opponents who use "ceasefire accords" as nothing more than rest stops on the way to killing more Jews?
................................................... But the Democratic Party -- the party of Cabinet members, Supreme Court Justices, U.S. Senators, Congressmen, Governors, and others who happen to be Jewish -- the party of vice-presidential nominee Joe Lieberman -- has lost. The Chasm has opened, and Democrats are burning the bridge.
Shame.
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If Lieberman is the Senator from Israel, then Lamont is the Senator from Hezbollah.
bump for later
Tolerance by the left is a lie.
Connecticut Democrats should hang their heads in shame. (Jihadists dancing in the streets.)
might be good for your pings
The party who, but six years ago, embraced him as the man 'A Heartbeat Away From the Presidency', now can't throw enough japes and sneers his way? And what was celebrated six years ago, is now a liability for him (Being Jewish)?
Even Nixon left with more dignity...
The integrity of Senator Joe Lieberman was so admired by Democrats across the nation back in 2000 that he was nominated to run on the bottom of Albert Arnold Gore's presidential ticket. Lieberman had proved his mettle two years earlier, when he scolded then-prevaricator-in-chief Bill Clinton for having debauched a 21-year-old intern -- and for having perjured himself during the cover-up.
Clearly, Lieberman's presence on Gore's ticket added something that it lacked -- namely, integrity. However, as The Patriot Post noted back then, Lieberman dealt his integrity a fatal blow by lending his name to Gore. Indeed, shortly after hopping aboard the ill-fated Gore ticket, he flip-flopped on key issues such as school choice, social-security reform and affirmative action.
Since 2000, Lieberman has voted mostly along party lines in matters of domestic policy and spending (with the notable exception of faith-based initiatives) but has been a large thorn in the side of his caucus when it comes to national security -- especially his outspoken support for President George Bush's Doctrine of Pre-emption in the West's war against Jihadistan.
From the onset of hostilities in Afghanistan and Iraq, many of Joe Lieberman's Senate colleagues have been vociferously anti-American -- in fact, their actions have been nothing short of traitorous. However, Lieberman refused to trade his integrity for party loyalty, which separated him from the pack of Northeastern liberals like uber-Leftist Jean-Francois Kerry. Said Lieberman earlier this year: "It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge [that he is our] commander-in-chief. We undermine the President's credibility at our nation's peril."
Unfortunately for Lieberman, placing integrity above party loyalty is anathema to the Left, and breaking ranks on national security has made him vulnerable.
Enter anti-war Leftist darling Ned Lamont -- the poster child for the league of inheritance-welfare liberals, those whom V.I. Lenin called "useful idiots". Lamont is the great-grandson of Thomas W. Lamont, a senior partner with J. P. Morgan and Co., and he's using that inheritance to rally his cadre of "Nedheads" (read: neo-McGovernites) to defeat Lieberman for supporting the President's national-security policies and faith-based initiatives. Lamont is, essentially, a highbrow Greenwich version of DNC chief Howlin' Howard Dean, but his gofers are of the lowest breed, even circulating a photo of Lieberman in black face on the Internet this week.
What makes the Democrat Senate primary in Connecticut so interesting is not that the Left is pulling out all the stops to defeat one of its own, but that a Democrat senator in an adjoining deep-blue state has also supported the President's policy in Iraq, albeit purely as a political calculation to appear as a moderate. And this senator, Hillary Clinton, is the current front-runner for the Demo presidential nomination in '08. Where Joe's campaign goes, might Hillary's campaign follow?
Despite Lieberman's criticism of Bill Clinton's debauchery and deceitfulness a few years ago, old wounds heal quickly when political futures are at stake. In a move to protect his wife's '08 prospects, Bill Clinton went on the offensive for Lieberman this week, calling the effort by Lamont and his anti-war "Netroots" minions to defeat him "the nuttiest strategy I ever heard in my life." Clinton went on to tell Lieberman supporters, "I think the Democrats are making a mistake to go after each other, [and must not] allow our differences over what to do now in Iraq ... divide us instead of focusing on replacing Republicans. He is a good senator, with the right position on most key Democratic issues. [We Democrats] don't agree on everything. We don't agree on Iraq ... I know that on the issues that I believe are critical to our future, Joe Lieberman's past is good evidence of his future. He is a good man, a good Democrat, and he'll do you proud."
Former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta was also campaigning for Lieberman, noting, "The late Congressman Mo Udall used to say that when Democrats form a firing squad, they tend to form it in a circle and end up shooting each other."
Can you imagine the shock and outrage that would follow if even a small number of Republicans made such bigoted statements? Not only would their candidate be forced to repudiate them, but we would also be hearing screams from the media and the elites that the GOP is the party of racism, bigotry, intolerance, and "lack of diversity!" So here is yet one more double standard.
Will the last Scoop Jackson Democrat to leave the party, please turn out the lights?
Liberal anti-Semitism rears its ugly head.
It was just a matter of time. The liberals loved the tobacco lobby until the tobacco companies started giving money to the GOP. They loved the gun companies until the gun lobby started giving money to the GOP. They were in favor of the war until opposing it was good politics. They loved deficits until the GOP was in charge of how money gets spent. Now that supporting Israel is no longer helpful to their cause, they are against it. And they are also turning against American Jews who support Israel.
I hear the Today show is going to have interviews about it.
And I have some swamp land in Arizona to sell, too.
Absolutely, a 40 year lie abetted by their propagandists in the MSM.
This President's greatest legacy may be BDS, Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Which has exposed the MSM as the Dem hacks they are, and the Dem party as Anti-Americans, bigots, elites, liars, and commie-vampires that suck the lifeblood out of everything good in this country.
Finally.
It was a real hurler to see them standing behind Lamont last night.
Besides, Lieberman is a minority vote anyway so it really doesn't matter much. He's been on the public dole long enough, time for him to get a job or start a business and help clean up some of the mess he made while in gubmint.
I wonder who the democrat was that said the Lieberman is the 'senator from Israel'? His name ought to be out their in the public airways?
"Senator from Hezbollah"
Sounds like a little ditty.
And the "moderates" of the GOP are surely paying very close attn.
I never believed Iraq was the big draw for Lamont--all you had to do was read the Lamont blogs to see clear indications that antisemitism/zionism was the Stealth Issue.
It will be very interesting to see what the Arab and Israeli press have to say about this. Lieberman's loss might be taken as a sign that America does not support the Jews.
This sentiment is becoming more and more pronounced among Democrat supporters. I just heard Ron Kuby, on WABC radio, go into an outraged tantrum against Congressman Anthony Wiener because Congressman Wiener is visiting Israel to show his support. According to Kuby, Wiener's visit just demonstrates his disloyalty to America and he should remain (permanently) in Israel, where he probably will be made an honorary member of the IDF. Kuby also called Israel "a terrorist state" because they kill civilians, whereas Hezbollah kills primarily soldiers.
Presenting opposing points of view is one thing - but I am surprised that a widely-listened-to radio station like WABC would provide an outlet for anti-Semitic propaganda.
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