TNR Endorses Lieberman

Many lefties and Democrats seem completely disconnected from reality to this admittedly partisan observer. The good folks at The New Republic, however, continue to impress. I may not agree with half of what they say, but I have enjoyed reading intelligent commentary from "the other side." A person of any political stripe can subscribe to the electronic-only version for $20 a year.

I just finished their endorsement of Senator Lieberman.

I wouldn't vote for him unless Snoop Dogg were to get the GOP nomination, but he's clearly the best of this year's pack. I can actually picture the Republic's surviving such an administration. TNR sez:

The deep irony of Lieberman's campaign is that many Democrats view him as timid. But how much courage does it take for Dean to throw red meat to the party faithful? The Democratic Party is racing back to the '80s, with interest groups enforcing litmus tests on everything from partial-birth abortion to steel tariffs, and party activists dangerously out of touch with a country that feels threatened by terrorism, not Donald Rumsfeld. Dean has helped create this mood of self-righteous delusion, and his competitors have, to varying degrees, accommodated themselves to it. Only Lieberman--the supposed candidate of appeasement--is challenging his party, enduring boos at event after event, to articulate a different, better vision of what it means to be a Democrat.

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