Lieberman's New LookJoe Lieberman has a new website, and it's, well, really bad. "Vote Joe for Senate"!
The whole site has a similar rah-rah-sis-boom-bah quality. There's state rep Jim Amann, who explains "Why I'm Sticking with Joe." And "coming soon!" is an attack on Lieberman's opponent, Ned Lamont: "THE FULL LAMONTY—The Whole Truth About Ned." On the website's blog, Lieberman hatchet man Dan Gerstein criticizes Lamont's "more juvenile supporters," then, two sentences later, refers to Lamont as "the Nedster."
Are Connecticut residents voting for U.S. Senate, or president of the sixth grade?
What we are doing is clearly not working. That is why I have called for new leadership and direction from the Pentagon. We also have to demand that the new Iraqi unity government do a better job of containing the sectarian violence, and working with our allies, the British in particular, we should convene an international crisis conference on Iraq, bringing in the Europeans and particularly the other Arab countries that arenow worrying about what happens if Iraq collapses.
Yes! We have to demand that the new Iraqi unity government do a better job of containing the sectarian violence! That ought to put a stop to it. And then we'll have a nice conference, with tea. Pity that we'll be the only ones there.
And here's another whopper from Lieberman:
I am opposed to an indefinite, unconditional deployment of American troops. ...But if we rush to meet some arbitrary, pre-set political deadline, as bad as things are now they will definitely get much worse.
So...let me see if I understand this: On the one hand, Lieberman is opposed to an indefinite deployment of American troops. But on the other hand, he's opposed to a deadline for removing American troops.
Huh.
As long as we're employing the grade school metaphor, let me suggest that Joe Lieberman is methodically taking an eraser to the blackboard of his once-serious reputation. This is what happens when you've been in Washington for so long that you can't imagine any other life.....
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Comments:
It may be a lame campaign, but the democrats' fixation with establishing deadlines for withdrawal is yet another anti-policy policy. So long as the democrats are defined only by their opposition to issues, the democrats will under-achieve and fail to impress. That may be good enough to win the House this fall, but it's not good in general.
