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Lieberman has a home in the GOP
No matter what Republicans think of his social positions, this guy has principles, guts and is a fighter. Plus, he knows what hes talking about on national security issues. Lets hope he crosses the line....
Article by Jennifer Rubin.
"By championing the surge, advocating for a robust national security, warning of the dangers of Iran’s state sponsorship of terror and nuclear development and lecturing his party on their errant ways, Lieberman has made himself into a major thorn in the Democrats’ side. When he invokes Democratic presidents of the past like FDR, Truman and Kennedy, his Democratic colleagues squirm. He hopes to reform his party and lead them back from the precipice of McGovernism and international retreat, but they aren’t much interested in that. They’re all in thrall to the MoveOn.org types.
"And of course, Lieberman has become one of the more effective spokesmen for John McCain -- perhaps the most effective one -- in explaining the dangers of Barack Obama’s foreign policy plans and pointing out his flip-flops, most clearly on the Kyl-Lieberman amendment classifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. (Obama was against the Kyl-Lieberman before he went in front of AIPAC and discovered it was a good idea.) For doing that Obama gave him a chewing out on the Senate floor. Yeah: how dare Lieberman call attention to Obama’s craven policy reversals on matters on national security?"
In perhaps the most focused and eloquent indictment of Obama to date he declared: "Senator Obama this morning said that he wants a foreign policy that is “tough, smart, and principled.” This afternoon, I ask: was it tough when Senator Obama voted to order U.S. forces to retreat from Iraq on a fixed timeline -- regardless of the recommendations of our military commanders, regardless of conditions on the ground? Was it smart when Senator Obama opposed the surge and predicted that it would fail to improve security? Was it principled when Senator Obama said that he would order U.S. troops to retreat from Iraq, regardless of the humanitarian consequences for millions of innocent Iraqis -- even genocide? Was it tough and principled when Senator Obama said he would be open to changing his plan for Iraq after going there and talking to General Petraeus -- only to change that position a few hours later after being heatedly criticized by organizations like Moveon.org? I say respectfully, the answer to all of those questions is no.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority leader and among the savviest elected conservatives, might do well to welcome Lieberman with open arms. It would be wise for McConnell to offer Lieberman the ranking minority spot on any committee of his choice, and, if he desires a position in the Senate leadership. In additional to potentially gaining a seat, the signal would be unmistakable: the GOP welcomes any and all Democrats who no longer have a place in the defeatist, left-of-liberal Democratic Party.
FULL ARTICLE: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27545
Boy oh Boy do I hope Lieberman joins the Republican party. Heck I hope he becomes the minority leader of the Senate. It will just further my dreams of a paradigm shift in the Republican Party moving them further to the left. Also he'll lose reelection next time around which will also be awesome in four years. So go Joe go!
Chuck him out? Didn't the New England socialists try to do that in Connecticut? Ned, fooling no one, ran as a Democrat and lost.
Bernie ran as an Independent, but caucuses with the Democrats; Obama endorsed him. Is Bernie just another of the long list of folks that Barack didn't vett?
Who do the NE socialists think they're fooling? Nothing like a transparent Presidential campaign to help the fence-sitters understand who and what they are voting for. The NE socialists annointed Barack, now they have to coronate him in Denver to define themselves; then the transparency really begins.
Joe will leave at a time of his choosing and when it's best for the Country. Please, Joe has more character, principle, values, political savy and love of country than all the members of the DNC could ever pretend to have. This election will be about country - not insurgency. When you're finished "Chucking Out" your moderates, who will you have left?
HDL says, "So everybody to the left of Lieberman is a socialist?"
Aren't you the one who talks about people using logical fallacies?
Let me clarify it for you and answer your question:
No, just those folks who align themselves with socialists are socialists, and those who call themselves socialists are socialists, and those who pander to the socialists by introducing legislation that has little hope in passing to appease the socialists may be socialists, and those who used to throw bombs, but now speak: "in a lanquage that is large, and generous, and encompassing..." as a prelude to their further action are socialists, and those in our universities who see the first ammendment as their right and their right alone are socialists.
And those that call themselves, liberal, progressive, or moderate and hear the words and the message,only as it applies to their particular complaint of government, they are not socialists; merely the pawns that lend some legitimacy to the socialists.
It's too bad, socialists don't wear arm-bands or carry flags anymore, it might help the good and well-intentioned pawns identify them.
