Senator Joe Lieberman has now officially proved that he is the only Democrat of national stature with principles, sense or guts.
The NY Times, the Washington Post, and the AP are noting the criticism that Lieberman is taking for his statements about staying the course and supporting the President on the Iraq War. Lieberman is getting it from every corner, including Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean.
There's even talk of a primary challenge to Lieberman, whose term as senator from Connecticut is up in 2006. Lowell Weicker, former Republican, fringe liberal and perpetual hot-air machine, is also talking of a run as an independent on Lieberman's far left.
What amazes SWNID about all this is that Reid has condemned Lieberman with the remark that he is out of touch with America's majority. We now know how tightly sealed the Defeatocrat echo machine really is. To read poll results as a political prediction that opposition to the war and a call for withdrawal will shift the Republicans' national electoral majority, to think that the tune that America wants to hear is an incessant drumbeat of defeatism and gloom about Iraq, to ignore that elections will be held in Iraq this week is ... well ... pretty goofy.
The D leadership is clearly committed to a single issue for 2006: withdraw from Iraq ASAP. Events are going to make their platform, which was never viable, marginal, if not moot.
The last time the Dems did this was 1864. They lost.
Thomas Dewey of the Rs didn't do it in 1944, and Wendell Wilkie of the Rs didn't even do it in 1940 before that war started. They lost too. But they preserved the integrity of their party, which participated nobly in the politically unified American effort in World War II and its generation-long Cold War aftermath.
There will be a politically unified effort in the generation-long war against Islamo-fascism, in which we are engaged at the beginning. But the political unification looks as if it will take the shape of one-party rule for the foreseeable future.
By the way, we predict that Lieberman will trounce any opposition in 2006.
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