MoveOn.org May Not Support Sen. Lieberman

[Desertdog]

I would like Liberman less if they did endorse him. I think he is about the only reasonable Democrat left. I wonder if they will run a real liberal Democrat against him. Dd

MoveOn.org May Not Support Sen. Lieberman
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/2/122149.shtml

Sen. Joe Lieberman stands virtually alone among Democrats after expressing his staunch support for the Bush administration’s handling of the war in Iraq.

An official with the liberal activist group MoveOn.org said the group might go so far as to back a Democratic challenger to Lieberman in next year’s Senate race, according to the Hartford Courant.

On Tuesday Lieberman published an editorial in the Wall Street Journal – reported by NewsMax – saying that his recent trip to Iraq convinced him further that the U.S. should not abandon "27 million Iraqis to 10,000 terrorists.”

The next day in an address on the progress of the war, President Bush said those who have called for withdrawal timetables, including 38 of the Senate’s Democrats, are "sincerely wrong.”


He went on: "As Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman said recently, setting an artificial timetable would ‘discourage our troops because it seems to be heading for the door. It will encourage the terrorists. It will confuse the Iraqi people.’

"Senator Lieberman is right.”

Lieberman was one of five Senate Democrats to oppose a Democratic-backed plan to require the president to set timetables for American troop withdrawals.

That has drawn some sharp criticism from the left. Tom Matzzie, Washington director of MoveOn.org, said: "The war on Iraq has all the characteristics of Joe-momentum,” recalling a slogan Lieberman used during the 2004 presidential campaign.

"Just like he didn’t realize his presidential ambitions were in trouble, he doesn’t understand the war in Iraq isn’t going anywhere.”

Matzzie – whose organization claims more than 50,000 Connecticut members, according to the Courant – said that if his members ask, his group would back a Democratic challenger to Lieberman.

He added that when he was in New Haven last month, he found "the No. 1 question people asked me was, ‘What are we going to do about Joe Lieberman?’”

Norman Orstein, political analyst at Washington’s American Enterprise Institute, highlighted Lieberman’s isolation among Democrats.

He told the Courant: "A consensus on the war is forming in the Democratic center, that it’s virtually impossible to set a withdrawal date, but there should be a change in our approach to the war.

"Joe is not in that center, and I don’t see anyone else in the party where he is.”

 

[LAR-15]

The DUmmies at the largest moonbat sight on the web have hated Lieberman for years

This is nothing new

 

[Oldtimer]

Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller would be better off if they switched parties, but both hold fast of the notion that they are "old party Democrats", much the same as John F. Kennedy. I've heard it said that JFK would probably be a REPUBLICAN today, if he was still alive.

The current Democrat party is in a sinking ship, and the Republican party seems to be bailing water at a pretty fast clip!

 

[Ironballs]

moveon.org and the left are racist and antisemmetic... they wont support Lieberman because he is Jewish.

Only the republican party is tollerant, accepting, and even supportive of minorities climbing the social ladder and finding success through achievement..


(wow, the spin can go both ways)

 

[boofus]

Well actually how many black and hispanic cabinet members did the left's multicultural sensitive tolerant diversified wonderboy Klinton have?

I can name at least 4 under Bush without digging around on the Internet for obscure people: Powell, Rice, Gonzalez, Paige.

 

[LAR-15]

Elaine Chow and Norman Mineta also come to mind.

Mineta also served Klinton though.

Klinton did have Ron Brown who died in a plane crash.

Face it. Bush has more 'minortity' top level secretaries and appointees than Klinton and these people were appointed based on SKILLS AND ABILITY not the color of their skin.

Oh and Bush has been very tolerant of other religions other than his own Christianity.

 

[Cactus]

Clinton had quite a few minorities in his Cabinet, although not in as high of a level as President Bush's.

Just off the top of my head he had: Mike Espy, Ron Brown, Henry Cisnaros, Bill Richardson and Norm Mineta

 

[Monkeyleg]

What about Monica Lewinsky? Isn't she Jewish?

 

[pete f]

My parents and Mrs Lieberman's parents were very good friends when I lived in Mass. Hadassa is a super person, as good as they come, smart, reasonable and kind. I have told her I would have a hard choice to vote against her husband in any election, (she knows about my preferences) but she just laughs. Hard to believe someone I know was only a few votes and a heart attack away from being First Lady.

 

[Aquaholic]

What about Monica Lewinsky? Isn't she Jewish?

You owe me a new keyboard, Dick!

 

[longhorngunman]

As much as it is hard for most people to fathom, there are a few Democrats who still love and respect this country and want it to continue to prosper, Mr. Lieberman is one of them. So of course the Moveon moonbats won't support him. If he wore a nice red shirt around with a yellow hammer and sickle symbol on it he might get more support from "mainstream" Democrats.

 

[Camp David]

Sen. Joe Lieberman stands virtually alone among Democrats after expressing his staunch support for the Bush administration’s handling of the war in Iraq.

Lieberman's a moderate Democrat while the rest of the party is ultra left; it shows how hijacked the Dem Party has become... Reid and Pelowsi and Dean and the rest of the cowards in the Democrat Party damage our world reputation and put soldier's lives at risk and in danger with their decisive and dividing rhetoric on cutting and runnning; what they are doing now is akin to spitting on soldiers in Vietnam... write them and tell them so... Meanwhile Sen. Lieberman expresses what the rest of the moderate Dems feel...

 

[Justin]

Camp David likes Senator Lieberman?

I have to say, I am utterly unsurprised.

 

[Camp David]

Camp David likes Senator Lieberman?

I have to say, I am utterly unsurprised.

I never said I "like" Sen.Lieberman... learn to read...

 

[Justin]

Ah, so it was your intention to damn with faint praise.

My bad.

 

[Tequila_Sauer]

If Lieberman deserves any credit, it's definitely for recognizing that there is a base of support from Democrats who actually don't take the party line on every single issue. It doesn't suprise me that his party is shunning him. To gain favor with the left, you have to hate guns, expand government, over-tax, be pro-abortion (pro-choice is a buzz word I refuse utilize), love trees, and hate white males who have amassed wealth. There are others, but I'm too lazy to continue with this line of thought.

I suppose you could also lump 'crats like Zell Miller in there as well, but Zell feels not so much like he's crossing his party's line to support Republicans, but more that his party's line moved right out from under him to a place he didn't want to go. His book really picks apart the piss poor political strategy we've seen from this farce of a Democratic party that ignores loyal voters because it's been hijacked by ultra ultra lefties who can't stand areas like the rural south and midwest. A brilliant man, though a bit extreme.

 

[Camp David]

Ah, so it was your intention to damn with faint praise.

My bad.

Indeed...