Even the radicals agree with me


This remarkable column by DeWayne Hickman makes the same point I and a great many others have been making about Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont for the past week: Lamont, not Lieberman, speaks today for the Democratic party.

Never mind that Hickman thinks that Lamont's position is good, and Lieberman's bad. This from a guy who thinks that Cousin Maxine, one of the House's most radical and irresponsible members, is somehow less than dangerous simply because she accurately represents the views of a wacky district.

This from a guy who thinks that Saddam didn't have those piles of WMD's he admitted having, and played a twelve-year shell game with the UN to try to hide, prior to the period immediately leading up to the invasion.

If people as far from the American mainstream as DeWayne Hickman say that Lamont is their man, and Lieberman is not, I'd say the case has been pretty much made.

HT: Real Clear Politics

Comments

Anonymous said…
Hello Mr. Waters,

I commented a while back that it was my hope that either the Republican or Democratic Party would split, leaving three parties.

The Lieberman news is encouraging. For the moment there are three parties: Dems, Repubs, and the "Joe Lieberman Party".

RINOs are falling over themselves to endorse the "Joe Lieberman Party". Tony Snow can't bring himself to say that the President actually endorses the Republican in the race.

I'm eager to see how this plays out. The parties seem to me to poised for a major realignment.

Jeff G.
Dream on, Jeff. You're one of the right wing equivalents of the Lamont people; you have no business taking encouragement from the attractiveness of a moderate independent! You're still a part of a tiny, extreme minority. You're not going to be rescued from that status by any realignment.

And it's not RINOS who want to see Lieberman win, Jeff. It's Republican realists, who- since Sclessinger isn't going to win this seat- would rather see the neo-McGovernites embarassed and a much better alternative to Ned Lamont in the Senate.