I hold my nose and shovel through The Nation weekly. Ugh.
Have you read John Nichols For Democrats, Mr. Right is Mr. Wrong?
"As Donna Brazile, the manager of the 2000 Gore-Lieberman campaign, explained to the Washington Post in May, "The bottom line is, he is defined as a conservative US senator."
This a surprise? I would love to see how the question was framed.
"Which Democrat presidential contender do you like least, the nigger or the jew".
Pardon my blunt speech but reverse racism disguised as diversity is just as ugly. Conservative in this context is code for "white Jew." It's becoming ever more obvious that anti-Semitism is the unspoken meme undercutting Lieberman. I knew it would come to this when he was drafted in 2000. The Dem's irrational opposition to Israel at-any-cost has reinforced the anti-Semitism that simmers beneath the surface of the party base. They've destroyed their best moderate candidate in the process.
Where's the cloying media coverage Lieberman enjoyed in 2000? Suddenly he can't get arrested. The DNC needs the black base to turn out in 2004, so they toss Joe Lieberman off the party bus. Ironic isn't it?
Does anyone really think that segregation would have been ended or the Voting Rights Act passed without the earnest young Jewish lawyers, JD/WH policy advisors and media watchdogs? Yet, the Democrats tolerate anti-Semites such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The Liberal media elite now openly support Anti-American terrorist states and sneer with labels such as "Neocon".
I am not a paleo-con, neo-con or a Republi-con. I am however, very disappointed with my former party. Dems have two splendid opportunities to prove that diversity is a reality in America. Cruz Bustamante could be elected with a positive DNC funded campaign, yet the Dems prop up an unpopular, failed Pol, so colorless that even his name screams WASP.
The GOP is headed into the same murky morass of pandering to narrow interest, but they still have the guts to be who they are. The Dems no longer know who they are or what they stand for, clinging to forty year old policy proffered by white males, policy that society has already digested and pronounced sound or not. We've moved on, abortion, racial and economic equality, concepts that have main streamed, to be sure there is still much to be done, but we're working on it.
What happened to the Liberal Best and Brightest?, Howard Dean is neither. Dean couldn't be any whiter or more out of step with the majority. Is the party hoping for a draw?, a repeat of 2000?
9/11 and Iraq changed everything in Fly-over Country, lines have been drawn and crossed. Lines that the Dems and Liberal media don't see or understand.
Lieberman, on the other hand, has the same values as much of the country. To be sure, Joe has waffled a little, but his voting record and basic decency are his best assets. Lieberman's election would also send a signal that would rock the Arab street and put Arab leaders on notice: change or perish.
I predict that Dean will deliver the Dems a defeat of proportions not seen since Mondale and hand Bush the mandate and mantle of legitimacy they deny.
A defeat they deserve.