Do you guys remember when that Rep Senator from Vermont or New Hampshire or Maine...some place in the North East..dropped out of the Republican Party and became an Independant. The Dems were escatic, they vigorously defended what he did as truly american and good..etc. Now when Lieberman is trying to set himself up to run as an independent, which if he is successfull will result in him winning as a lot of Conn Republicans will vote for him in the general election and you could be sure that that the RNC or Bush or anybody big will be staying away from Conn and not campaigning against him. Well this has pissed off all the Democrats and it's un-american, dastardly, etc for him to do this. I don't esp care for Lieberman but it will be good to see him stick it to his former buddies. Terry
Oh, I remember, his name is Jim Jeffors (not sure about the spelling) from Vermont. He was independent but caucused with the Democrats. Leiberman would be independent but still cacus with the Democrats and not change parties. I really want to follow this saga.
Terry, I think your talking about Jeffords from Vermont. That brilliant bozo left hoping to tilt the scales from the Republicans and ended up leaving the majority party in the Senate for the past decade. He has no influence at all and must be as useful as a eunich. As to Lieberman, it's nice to see the party of inclusion once again demonstraiting thier lack of tolerance for any opposing views. While the Republicans try to get along with the McCains and Specters, the Democrats are unwilling to accept dissent. Funny but when those hypocrites tell us that dissent is so American and how wonderful they are for undermining our war efforts, they try to silence every voice of dissent on their side of the aisle.
8) This is how the Democrats became the minority party. When I was the age of the students that I teach, the Republican Party didn't even exist in most states of the union, except as small skeleton organizations to run a candidate for president every 4 years. In some states, like Alabama and Mississippi, the Republican "Party" consisted of fewer than 100 year-round workers. Registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans more than 2-1 nationally and the Democrats controlled all of the national media: TV, radio, newspapers, magazines. The only "dissent" in America, was the internal conflict between the Far-Left and the moderates/conservatives within the Democratic Party itself. In one poll taken in the 1950's, those describing themselves as "conservative" were only 5% of the population. Then the liberals got greedy... By 1968, the liberals had a problem. They had started, then mismanaged the Vietnam War; started then mismanaged a "War on Poverty", failed to provide adequate support for a Civil Rights Movement that the Republicans had created more than 100 years previously; and dismissed as laughable the young and growing conservative challenge in the Republican Party, which had already swept the lib/Dems from power in their own powerbase: California. How should they respond to all of this? Who was to blame? Their answer was to move the entire party to the Left, and its been heading further and further out there ever since. They purged their party of all the undesirable elements: Irish, Italians, Poles, small business owners, non-union tradesmen, independent professionals, Christians who still went to church, social conservatives; then they declared themselves to be "The Party of Peace." By the time this purge was finished in 1984, they were a minority party made up almost exclusively of the self-appointed elites who live near the beach on the two coasts. They had conceded everything in between to the "Far Right", which they maintained was a "small minority" of the electorate. A quarter of a century later, they're still at it and getting smaller every day. By definition, elites don't make majorities and an elite which doesn't include most educated or financially successful people isn't as "elite" as it thinks it is anyway. Now the bell tolls for Joe Lieberman, a good soldier who had the timerity to vote the lib/Dem party line only 90% of the time. That's not very "elite" behavior, so he'll have to go and once again, the Republican Party, now in the third decade of its rebirth, will be there to pick up the pieces...and the lib/Dems don't have many pieces left...