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Joe Lieberman: If Democratic-Socialism is our Future, We’re in Trouble
email inbox, Eagle Rising ^ | 07/23/2018 | Onan Coca

Posted on 07/23/2018 7:28:54 AM PDT by JimRed

Joe Lieberman has long been many Republicans favorite Democrat.

Not because he’s particularly conservative but because he’s an honest, well-meaning politician… and there aren’t many of those around anymore.

Lieberman is in the news again now because he’s penned an op-ed criticizing his party’s shift to the left. Lieberman argues that if Democratic-Socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez truly are the future of the Democrat Party, then the Democrat Party doesn’t have a very bright future ahead.

Really the point was, what is the Democratic party going to be? I am still a Democrat and when I see somebody that really says she is a Socialist, she is a very charismatic, captivating candidate but if you look at the policies, those are not policies that will be supported very many places across America. If her win makes her into what Kellyanne Conway calls it “the new face of the Democratic party”, the Democratic party will not have a bright future…

As I said in the column in the Wall Street Journal today, she didn’t talk too much about foreign policy during the campaign. She obviously by her own acknowledgment does not know that much about foreign policy. But when she did talk about it, it was from the Democratic-Socialist organization policy book. It is very pro-socialist around the world…. Let me put it this way, it is too quick to criticize Israel so she during the campaign actually said at one point that the Israeli action to defend against the massing of troops on the border in Gaza by Hamas, was a massacre. That is very hot language and not fair.

The Democrat Party needs more Joe Liebermans and fewer of everything else they’ve got these days.

Sadly, I don’t think Lieberman realizes that his party has left him behind. The Party of Lieberman and JFK is long gone… today’s Democrats are the Party of Bernie Sanders and the socialists.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2018midterms; 2020election; berniesanders; connecticut; election2018; election2020; future; honesty; joecrowley; joelieberman; lieberman; nedlamont; newyork; ocasiocortez; socialism; vermont
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The Loserman half of Sore-Loserman (you younger FReepers may have to look up Sore-Loserman) may not be as loser as we thought.
1 posted on 07/23/2018 7:28:54 AM PDT by JimRed
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To: JimRed

Irony coming from an enabler of it


2 posted on 07/23/2018 7:29:33 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: JimRed

Be careful what you wish for Joe. You just might get it.

Dead Enders.


3 posted on 07/23/2018 7:32:35 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Whose Gonna Fill Their Shoes...?)
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Joe Lieberman: If Democratic-Socialism is our Future, We’re in Trouble
Finally figured that out, didya Joe?

4 posted on 07/23/2018 7:33:39 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: JimRed

His wife is/was a big D.C. lobbyist. If the socialist take over she will be out of a job.


5 posted on 07/23/2018 7:34:35 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: mrmeyer
Yes, thank you. Exactly what I was about to say but not with your brevity or eloquence.

Joe seems to expect us to think he hasn't seen this coming. If we've seen it coming, why hasn't he?

6 posted on 07/23/2018 7:34:50 AM PDT by OKSooner (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE): The 1200 pound gorilla...)
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To: mrmeyer

I think in non-metropolitan towns, trying to sell Democratic-Socialism just won’t work. Maybe on a college campus and cities like Chicago....you might convince 50-percent of Democrats to buy off on this....but the bulk of folks just aren’t going listen to this stuff.


7 posted on 07/23/2018 7:34:53 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: JimRed

Democrat socialism, national socialism, same difference.


8 posted on 07/23/2018 7:34:56 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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The Party of Lieberman and JFK is long gone…

My grandfather, a life-long and pretty prominent Democrat on the local level, figured this out in 1980 when Carter steered the ship into the iceberg. The realization that he was going to have to vote for Reagan left him pale and shaking.


9 posted on 07/23/2018 7:35:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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> if you look at the policies, those are not policies that will be supported very many places across America <

Lieberman is right, for now. But it all depends on how the media sells those policies. As we all know, most of the media is hard left, and is getting more so each year.


10 posted on 07/23/2018 7:36:21 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Amen. The Democrats just want to PROMISE Socialism in order to get the taker class up off the couch and voting for them.

They never dreamed they would one day have to actually DELIVER Socialism.


11 posted on 07/23/2018 7:36:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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He’s a dying breed, one of the last “reasonable” Democrats, if I can use such words. Reasonable, as opposed to today’s unhinged leftist Democrats.


12 posted on 07/23/2018 7:38:11 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Seems to be quite the civil war, or unrest, brewing in the democrat party. The tables have turned. Republicans are 88% behind their leader while the dems that are winning are the radical left. This will bode well for the good guys in November.


13 posted on 07/23/2018 7:39:04 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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It is dawning on Joe in his dotage the harm his allegiance to the Democratic Party and its policies has done. At its core the Democrats are globalist, socialist, open borders advocates and anti Zionist. If they come to power they would in a microsecond betray the American nation and subject its people to a world government dominated by foreign Leftists. Make no mistake, the Judeo-Christian heritage would be destroyed.


14 posted on 07/23/2018 7:40:56 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: JimRed

bookmark


15 posted on 07/23/2018 7:41:54 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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> if you look at the policies, those are not policies that will be supported very many places across America <

So, he is against his party embracing socialism, not because it is wrong but because it wouldn’t garner enough vote to get them in office.

Wrong thinking again, Joe!


16 posted on 07/23/2018 7:45:47 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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Sore-Loserman

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Haha. Haven’t seen that one for quite awhile.

I’m dating myself. LOL


17 posted on 07/23/2018 7:46:31 AM PDT by Starboard
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McCain wanted Lieberman as his VP!!!

Who was cool with that?



18 posted on 07/23/2018 7:46:57 AM PDT by KavMan
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They’re just saying this, because Crowley lost.


19 posted on 07/23/2018 7:49:08 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: JimRed

AO-C probably thinks she is “enlightened” by choosing to be a democratic-socialist. In reality, she has been duped into believing a murderous lie.


20 posted on 07/23/2018 7:50:03 AM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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