It is hard to believe that there is anyone in this country that has a favorable view of Joe Lieberman’s politics but there is. In an article today on Bloomberg.com, columnists Morton Kondracke points to the 2008 presidential race and laments that there is no one running that has the right political mix and statesmanship for the presidency. Kondracke does believe that Joe Lieberman is the person that has those qualities.
Kondracke believes that the Democrats have become too liberal in their foreign policy approach and that the Republicans are not fiscally responsible anymore and are too conservative on social issues. But not Joe. Kondracke went way too far in his comparisons.
“There is a statesman-sized hole to fill in the center of American politics. It would fit a figure who is strong on national security, unlike all the Democratic candidates, yet fiscally responsible and socially moderate to liberal, unlike the Republicans.
It’s a Franklin Roosevelt-, Harry Truman-, Dwight Eisenhower-, John F. Kennedy-sized hole that’s currently occupied by no one except perhaps Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.), a man without a party.”
Kondracke must delusional to put a backstabbing, party hopping loser like Lieberman in the same breath as Roosevelt Eisenhower and Kennedy.Lieberman, who in 2000 was the Democratic vice presidential candidate, ignored the voters of his own party in his own state when they decided to turn to Ned Lamont as their candidate for Senate. Lamont would have easily beaten his Republican challenger but instead lost because Lieberman ran an independent campaign. With financial and vote support from Republicans, Lieberman was reelected to the Senate. Lieberman is a politician who believes he is above the will of his constituents, which is certainly not at all like the men he was compared to by Kondracke, nor is it like the Democratic candidates for president.
Kondracke’s opinion and argument about the 2008 presidential race could have been interesting had he not become completely delusional in comparing great statesmen to a hypocrite like Joe Lieberman.
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Why Would Anyone Believe Joe Lieberman Is America’s Ultimate Statesman?
It is hard to believe that there is anyone in this country that has a favorable view of Joe Lieberman’s politics but there is. In an article today on Bloomberg.com, columnists Morton Kondracke points to the 2008 presidential race and laments that there is no one running that has the right political mix and statesmanship for the presidency. Kondracke does believe that Joe Lieberman is the person that has those qualities.
Kondracke believes that the Democrats have become too liberal in their foreign policy approach and that the Republicans are not fiscally responsible anymore and are too conservative on social issues. But not Joe. Kondracke went way too far in his comparisons.
“There is a statesman-sized hole to fill in the center of American politics. It would fit a figure who is strong on national security, unlike all the Democratic candidates, yet fiscally responsible and socially moderate to liberal, unlike the Republicans.
It’s a Franklin Roosevelt-, Harry Truman-, Dwight Eisenhower-, John F. Kennedy-sized hole that’s currently occupied by no one except perhaps Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.), a man without a party.”
Kondracke must delusional to put a backstabbing, party hopping loser like Lieberman in the same breath as Roosevelt Eisenhower and Kennedy.Lieberman, who in 2000 was the Democratic vice presidential candidate, ignored the voters of his own party in his own state when they decided to turn to Ned Lamont as their candidate for Senate. Lamont would have easily beaten his Republican challenger but instead lost because Lieberman ran an independent campaign. With financial and vote support from Republicans, Lieberman was reelected to the Senate. Lieberman is a politician who believes he is above the will of his constituents, which is certainly not at all like the men he was compared to by Kondracke, nor is it like the Democratic candidates for president.
Kondracke’s opinion and argument about the 2008 presidential race could have been interesting had he not become completely delusional in comparing great statesmen to a hypocrite like Joe Lieberman.
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