Kerry Calls Lieberman the New Cheney Sun Aug 20 2006 10:01:53 ETIn an exclusive appearance on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos", Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., blasted fellow Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman for continuing his bid in the Connecticut Senate race despite a narrow loss to newcomer challenger Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary earlier this month.
"I'm concerned that (Lieberman) is making a Republican case," Kerry told ABC News, accusing the 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate of "adopting the rhetoric of Dick Cheney," on the issue of Iraq. Kerry continued, "Joe Lieberman is out of step with the people of Connecticut," insisting Liberman's stance on Iraq, "shows you just why he got in trouble with the Democrats there."
Kerry called the Connecticut Senator's Independent bid a "huge mistake" and applauded businessman-turned-politician as "courageous" for challenging Lieberman on the war. Of his own views on Iraq, Kerry stated forthrightly, "The course of this country in Iraq is making the world more dangerous."
I guess it just never dawned on the senator from Massachusetts, that in fact, Mr. Lieberman cannot abandon his conscience, that certain proclivities regarding the democratic positions seriously damage the nation in wartime, and that cravenly abandoning his conscience to gain the support of those who reccomend abandonment and ignominy for the sake of partisan opposition is about as cowardly as you can get. This kind of thinking is so outside the realm of the senator from Masschusetts' thought schema that it's as foreign as thinking victory trumps the idea of exit strategy, or that in fact there is only ONE war going on out that there ..for such thought would require support for ANY serving president.
How disgusting!