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Mercnbeth -> RE: Lieberman (8/9/2006 7:32:18 AM)
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The Democratic Party will now revert to their 1968 Eugene McCarthy days, that brought us Richard Nixon. Senator Hilary Clinton should be careful. Lieberman and she have the same voting record concerning Iraq.
I know it's difficult for some, but look at the situation pragmatically.
Consider this "day after" statement and think about how this campaign issue play in the "red" states.
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In Cleveland, Republican Party chairman Ken Mehlman seized on the results in the Connecticut primary to assail the Democrats on national security and called Lieberman's defeat a "shame." "Joe Lieberman believed in a strong national defense, and for that, he was purged from his party. It is a sobering moment," Ken Mehlman said. The Republican National Committee chairman said Lieberman's loss also is a "sign of what the Democratic Party has become in the 21st century. It reflects an unfortunate embrace of isolationism, defeatism and a blame America first attitude by national Democratic leaders at a time when retreating from the world is particularly dangerous." Link: http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060809/D8JCURI00.html
As I said in another thread...
... in 2008 the choice from the Democratic side will lose. Every issue on the left is polarizing and exclusionary. They can tell why programs failed, why war was wrong, why more taxes are needed, why people shouldn’t own guns. But their voting records don’t live up to their convictions. Or they do not present a logical and macro solution. They can tell how it’s wrong. They can tell you why yesterday’s decision was wrong but aren’t so confident about the one they’d make tomorrow. As a result every fringe or minority group that they placate moves votes to their opposition. These fringe rallies are fun to attend and make for great TV but only serve to polarize and mobilize those against the fringe. They forget that fringe and minority groups are called that because they make up a minority or fringe factor. Need an example of how this works? California has a Republican governor who took steroids, fondles women, smokes cigars, and can’t pronounce the name of the state he governs; those are just his positive resume items. But the liberal Democratic opposition ran a candidate so far left to placate the fringe and minority groups that the high powered “right winger” Stephen Spielberg just came out backing Arnold. The same will happen in 2008 in the presidential election.
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