Lieberman; what happened to my party?

| May 21, 2008

Joe Lieberman explains the rift in the country over the war and the reason Democrats willnever have a coherent foreign policy until they shake of the far Left’s chains in the Wall Street Journal this morning in Democrats and Our Enemies;

The attack on America by Islamist terrorists shook President Bush from the foreign policy course he was on. He saw September 11 for what it was: a direct ideological and military attack on us and our way of life. If the Democratic Party had stayed where it was in 2000, America could have confronted the terrorists with unity and strength in the years after 9/11.

Instead a debate soon began within the Democratic Party about how to respond to Mr. Bush. I felt strongly that Democrats should embrace the basic framework the president had advanced for the war on terror as our own, because it was our own. But that was not the choice most Democratic leaders made. When total victory did not come quickly in Iraq, the old voices of partisanship and peace at any price saw an opportunity to reassert themselves. By considering centrism to be collaboration with the enemy – not bin Laden, but Mr. Bush – activists have successfully pulled the Democratic Party further to the left than it has been at any point in the last 20 years.

Far too many Democratic leaders have kowtowed to these opinions rather than challenging them. That unfortunately includes Barack Obama, who, contrary to his rhetorical invocations of bipartisan change, has not been willing to stand up to his party’s left wing on a single significant national security or international economic issue in this campaign.

The Democrat Party saw 9-11 and George Bush’s reaction to it as a political opportunity rather than a crisis for which we needed to unite and speak to the world with one voice. Obama continues to be a divisive element rather than a uniter – despite his empty rhetoric as hope for change. The only thing that’s changed is the face.

Lieberman goes on to explain that John McCain is the only candidate in this election who recognizes who are our enemies and who are our friends, unlike Barak Obama who has a naive view of world thinking words will soothe the savage breast. Democrats should really think about why Lieberman has gone from their Vice Presidential candidate to pariah in just eight years. Maybe it’s not Lieberman that’s the problem here.

Category: Politics, Terror War

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From Joe Lieberman’s article:

When total victory did not come quickly in Iraq, the old voices of partisanship and peace at any price saw an opportunity to reassert themselves. By considering centrism to be collaboration with the enemy – not bin Laden, but Mr. Bush – activists have successfully pulled the Democratic Party further to the left than it has been at any point in the last 20 years.

When the going got tough for us, the lefties bailed and showed they have no backbone and no loyalty to their country. Their vilification of our CiC is shameful. The Democratic Party listened to the moonbats and invested in defeat. I’m glad it’s biting them in the butt now, not because I’m into payback, because the lefties such as Pelosi, Reid and Murtha really wanted us to lose in Iraq and the War on Terror and did their best to paint our country and the situation with the War in the worse possible manner, even visiting with middle-eastern tyrants who are providing aid to our enemies. Murtha’s statements about the Haditha incidence will never be forgotten by this veteran!