Lieberman v Lamont: microcosm of America?
Mort Kondracke at Roll Call wrote a quite interesting piece in today's edition (here, if you subscribe). His main point is that while 47% of the country describe themselves as moderate, the politics of this election cycle are being driven by Bush-hatred among a minority of voters, like we've said at ML&TN before.
The Lieberman case is the perfect example: while Lieberman has voted with the Democratic Party 80% of the time, his support for the liberation of Iraq is tied to Bush and thus he's hated by default (not to mention "the kiss," President Bush and Lieberman's whisper at the State of the Union that kind of looked like a peck on the check and provoked lefties to whine).
Click full-post for some good excerpts:
"If former Greenwich Selectman Ned Lamont beats Lieberman in the Democratic primary, it will represent a signal victory for the MoveOn.org-Michael Moore-DailyKos left wing of the Democratic Party and for vicious name-calling as a political tactic...
...The Democratic Party already is handicapped by the fact that its liberal base amounts to just 20 percent of the electorate, while the Republicans' conservative base is 33 percent, according to decades of polling....
...[Sen. Harry] Reid and [Rep. Nancy] Pelosi press conferences are dominated by Bush-bashing and virtually empty of positive proposals. Even so, mainstream Democrats are under constant Web log pressure to "take on" Bush and routinely get attacked for being too accommodating....
...Even before the current Middle East conflict, Lieberman was subjected to anti-Semitic attacks on liberal blogs DailyKos and Huffington Post. One commentary declared, "Ned Lamont needs to beat Lieberman to a pulp in the debate and define what it means to be an American who is NOT beholden to the Israeli lobby...
...Lieberman is a rare remaining vestige of the assertive Democratic foreign policy typified by Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy. Though he's accused of being Bush's cheerleader on Iraq, Lieberman first called for toppling Saddam Hussein in 1993, before Bush was even governor of Texas...
...And it's now up to Connecticut voters to decide whether hatred-politics will prevail."
The Lieberman case is the perfect example: while Lieberman has voted with the Democratic Party 80% of the time, his support for the liberation of Iraq is tied to Bush and thus he's hated by default (not to mention "the kiss," President Bush and Lieberman's whisper at the State of the Union that kind of looked like a peck on the check and provoked lefties to whine).
Click full-post for some good excerpts:
"If former Greenwich Selectman Ned Lamont beats Lieberman in the Democratic primary, it will represent a signal victory for the MoveOn.org-Michael Moore-DailyKos left wing of the Democratic Party and for vicious name-calling as a political tactic...
...The Democratic Party already is handicapped by the fact that its liberal base amounts to just 20 percent of the electorate, while the Republicans' conservative base is 33 percent, according to decades of polling....
...[Sen. Harry] Reid and [Rep. Nancy] Pelosi press conferences are dominated by Bush-bashing and virtually empty of positive proposals. Even so, mainstream Democrats are under constant Web log pressure to "take on" Bush and routinely get attacked for being too accommodating....
...Even before the current Middle East conflict, Lieberman was subjected to anti-Semitic attacks on liberal blogs DailyKos and Huffington Post. One commentary declared, "Ned Lamont needs to beat Lieberman to a pulp in the debate and define what it means to be an American who is NOT beholden to the Israeli lobby...
...Lieberman is a rare remaining vestige of the assertive Democratic foreign policy typified by Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy. Though he's accused of being Bush's cheerleader on Iraq, Lieberman first called for toppling Saddam Hussein in 1993, before Bush was even governor of Texas...
...And it's now up to Connecticut voters to decide whether hatred-politics will prevail."
posted by Boz at 1:35 PM
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