[Moose4]

Guys like Dershowitz and Nat Hentoff (of the Village Voice) and Joe Lieberman are liberals on social and probably on fiscal issues, of that there's no doubt. But they aren't moonbats. I don't think Dershowitz has had some sort of Damascene conversion to being a conservative. Unlike the radical left that's hijacked the Democratic Party, he's just sane enough to see things that the moonbats refuse to.

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[goldstategop]

A neo-con. We conservatives so defined are mostly ex-moderate liberals repelled by the counter culture excesses of the 60s. People like The Dersh and Lieberman will increasingly find themselves on the Right simply because the Left has been taken over by the crazies. There is no longer a sane Left in this country.

"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 Paleologus

[steamroller]

Hentoff and Dershowitz are not that similar-I have frequently disagreed with Hentoff,but always respected him as a principled man-he is an atheist and pro-life,precisely because he believes there's nothing else-he's also against the death penalty-consistent-personally I don't understand atheists and don't equate the death penalty with abortion(what crime did the fetus commit?),but Hentoff has always been head and shoulders above Dershowitz-actually Dersh and Lerner deserve each other-I read some of Dershowitz' books and his view of Jews is very myopic-he has predetermined ideas and molds his facts to fit them-I saw him in adebate with Alan Keyes who wiped the floor with him-Dersshowitz in that debate let slip that he had no respect for the Constitution,it was merely an interesting document-very cavalier,but it told volumes about him.I think Nat Hentoff really does believe in the Constitution.And he is also a scholar in the field of jazz,a very American music form.

[Stultis]

Guys like Dershowitz and Nat Hentoff (of the Village Voice) and Joe Lieberman are liberals on social and probably on fiscal issues, of that there's no doubt. But they aren't moonbats.

So many liberals have morphed into loony leftists, or have taken to reflexively appeasing leftists extremists, that those liberals who actually attempt to marginalize extremism stand out as oddballs.

[SuziQ]

Unlike the radical left that's hijacked the Democratic Party, he's just sane enough to see things that the moonbats refuse to.

So true.

[Lurking Libertarian]

I don't think Dershowitz has had some sort of Damascene conversion to being a conservative. Unlike the radical left that's hijacked the Democratic Party, he's just sane enough to see things that the moonbats refuse to.

Dershowitz has always been a strong supporter of Israel-- this is not a new position for him.