Joe Lieberman … A Man Without A Party

J.J. Jackson* | November 29, 2005

Lieberman and I don’t see eye to eye on every issue and I have been quick to criticize him when he is wrong (just like I do with EVERY politician) but Senator Lieberman is truly a man without a party to call home.

He is too liberal on domestic issues for even the left hand side of the Republican Party and he is by far too intelligent on the concepts of war for the mainstream of the Democratic Party to embrace him. He is about as close as you can come today to a Kennedy Democrat. And he has very little company in the party apart from Zell Miller.

Today Lieberman estranged himself even further from the rabid base of the Democratic Party, by telling a few truths about Iraq - mainly that we have to stay until the job is finished. Someone get the fainting couch and the smelling salts … Democrats are being over come by the vapors across the country at these words.

In the Wall Street Journal Mr. Lieberman talks about Iraq in terms no modern liberal wants to hear (sorry you’ll need a subscription to read it). He says

“The Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood

but warns it will not happen if

“the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn,”

But he goes on, talking in a foreign language to liberals

“It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or al-Qaida foreign fighters who know their wretched causes will be set back if Iraq becomes free”

Remember folks this is AFTER his 4th trip in a little over a year and a half to the region that he is saying this. And this contrasts highly with the psychobabble spewing from the mouths of ivory tower elitists who have not ever set a foot in Iraq or who have a vested interest in manufacturing a United States failure. Vietnam anyone?

“We are fighting on the side of the 27 million because the outcome of this war is critically important to the security and freedom of America. If the terrorists win, they will be emboldened to strike us directly again and to further undermine the growing stability and progress in the Middle East.”

And just to show that he is REALLY on the ball he takes a shot not only at Democrats but yellow spine Republicans as well looking to make themselves appear more appealing to leftists to secure reelection.

“I am disappointed by Democrats who are more focused on how President Bush took America into the war in Iraq almost three years ago, and by Republicans who are more worried about whether the war will bring them down in next November’s elections, than they are concerned about how we continue the progress in Iraq in the months and years ahead

BRAVO!

Not always right, but dead on on this issue Mr. Lieberman. At least there are still some members of the Democratic Party that have a sense of honor and pride in America.

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