Senator Joe Lieberman has made a lot of friends and impressed many voters in his campaign -- too bad for him that they're all Republicans!
The WSJ give him some props today in A Good Joe:
The Connecticut Senator was the perfect Vice Presidential nominee in 2000, the moral and political antidote to the Clinton scandals. But timing matters in politics, and his message of an assertive foreign policy, free trade and cultural moderation never caught on in this year of liberal Democratic anger. Left-of-center primary voters are looking for an anti-Bush with an attitude, and that isn't Mr. Lieberman's style or substance.
I would be happy to welcome the Senator.
UPDATE: My buddy, Alex, would possibly vote for Sen Lieberman over W!
Posted by jk at February 5, 2004 11:07 AMI could have... could have.
Hes pro-tax cut... pro-war on terror... two things that matter to me most.
He's a D, so I know i'd be be getting someone willing to spend money... i didn't think i'd get that with Bush... so at least I'd know what I was getting.
STOP SPENDING MONEY GEORGE! Grrrrr......
I will offer my standard "you are right -- but" defense:
You are right, I wish W would veto some pork and get tough, and stop expanding the state
--But, I'm tired of hearing Andrew Sullivan say we'd be spending less with a President Dean. I'm sorry that there will be no small government choice in 2004. But there won't and the Democrats would only be worse.
Look how they all lined up behind Senator Lieberman.
Posted by: jk at February 6, 2004 10:19 AMA good friend surprised me yesterday with the statement, "I almost think we'd be better off if Kerry won the election because Republicans in Congress don't fight spending programs when the President is a Republican." Of course the unstated fact is that Democrats in Congress don't fight spending programs EVER. (Well, unless it is "spending" the government's future proceeds by way of cutting taxes.)
We (my friend and I) both agree that the Republican and Democrat politicians have collectivist tendencies. The difference is that most Republicans also have a healthy respect for individual liberty and capitalism, while the few Democrats who admit such principles get the Joe Lieberman treatment.
I agree that Lieberman, like Colo. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell and at least in spirit, Zel Miller, should switch affiliation to the "sometimes capitalist" party. Meanwhile, those of us who are full-time capitalists must continue to pull the GOP'ers back from the statist ideology that has engulfed the liberals. One way to do this is keep reminding them that Christian altruism, when practiced by the State, is communism.
Posted by: johngalt at February 8, 2004 10:10 AM