Lieberman Blasts Democrats Over Partisan-Driven Foreign Policy

FoxNews.com ^ | Nov 8, 2007 | Fox News

[vietvet67]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Lieberman on Thursday painted a dim picture of his party, saying Democrats have given up their moral authority on foreign policy because they are more concerned with opposing Republicans than doing what is right.

The former presidential candidate and hawkish senator from Connecticut also came down hard on critics of a resolution he and Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., co-sponsored calling on the Bush administration to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

"For many Democrats, the guiding conviction in foreign policy isn't pacifism or isolationism, it is distrust and disdain of Republicans in general, and President Bush in particular," Lieberman said at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

"In this regard, the Democratic foreign policy worldview has become defined by the same reflexive, blind opposition to the President that defined Republicans in the 1990s — even when it means repudiating the very principles and policies that Democrats as a party have stood for, at our best and strongest," Lieberman continued.

Lieberman — who has run for the top spot in the Oval Office as well as the No. 2 — is unique in the Senate, having won re-election last year following a Democratic primary election defeat tinged with anti-war sentiment. He ran a rare successful independent campaign by stumping largely on his foreign policy stance in support of the Iraq war and against terrorism. Lieberman has maintained his Democratic affiliation, caucusing in the Senate with Democrats.

On Thursday, Lieberman waxed nostalgic over foreign policy giants Democrats like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy, but said that after Vietnam, it took until the Clinton administration to regain an internationalist, interventionist attitude among Democrats.

[rightinthemiddle]

Thanks, Joe...now, what about ANWR?

[PigRigger]

"For many Democrats, the guiding conviction in foreign policy isn't pacifism or isolationism, it is distrust and disdain of Republicans in general, and President Bush in particular," Lieberman said at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

Translated: The Dem's have BDS....

[truthluva]

Sen. Joe Lieberman on Thursday painted a dim picture of his party, saying Democrats have given up their moral authority on foreign policy because they are more concerned with opposing Republicans than doing what is right.

Technically speaking he is an Independent. ;)

[MrB]

Oh, it’s partly about opposing Republicans,

but they also have a base that is very much anti-American and doesn’t want to see us prevail against the islamofascists.

[Just Lori]

He’s like a ping pong ball....

[yoe]

Clever of the Dems to rid themselves of the only upstanding Democrat and perhaps the only one who could take the nomination from the Clintons.......smart Dems should start a Draft "Joe Lieberman" and bring their party back to some normalcy. Joe will probably come around to drilling to help make us energy independent, he is a very pro-American Patriot, perhaps the only statesman on the left.

[goldstategop]

Joe Lieberman has again stuck a thumb in the eyes of the moonbats.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[bert]

He also said that the rats are more concerned about what Bush will do to Iran than what Iran is doing to American soldiers