Sen. Joe Lieberman blasted the Democratic Presidential nominees yesterday saying they’re beholden to a “politically paranoid” and “hyper-partisan” base that could endanger any hopes of winning a general election.
The Senator also said he might not vote for the Democratic presidential nominee next year.
He painted the Dems as totally out of touch, and argued that George W. Bush and the Republican presidential candidates remained truer than the Democratic party to its tradition of a “moral, internationalist, liberal and hawkish” foreign policy that was established by presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy.
“The Democratic party I grew up in was unafraid to make moral judgments about the world beyond our borders,” he said.
“Today’s Democrats are inclined to see international problems as a result of America’s engagement with the world and are viscerally opposed to the use of force – the polar opposite to the self-confident and idealistic nationalism of the party I grew up in.”
Joe Lieberman really is the only sane Democrat left in Washington. The looney anti-war left has totally hijacked the Democratic party. It’s only in recent years that the Democrats have come to symbolize a party of pacifists, who think an aggressive foreign policy is some kind of attempt by Republicans to take over the world.
-Chris Jones
