The Lieberman situation disgusts this ex-Democrat. Zell Miller retired rather than dealing with the turn and runners.

Democrats have shown their cowardice and inability to lead; their national strategy is to let every issue go to hell, then blame Republicans (for example, Social Security, defense, Medicare).

I doubt that Lieberman is really all that much more principled than a typical politician–but at least he has *some*. (In the land of the blind, etc. etc.)

Scott

McClellan has no credibility. He changes his loyalty and his story with the prevailing political winds. Not to mention the money.

And I think that a lot of conservative Republicans are too hard on McCain.

But there is no comparison here. I used to be a Democrat. I left the party because they saw a political advantage in defeat. The Republicans may be guilty of a lot of things, but they do not yearn for American defeat just for the sake of short term political gain. And that is what the Democrats did.

Just look at Rockefeller, he went from fretting that Saddam would nuke us to accusing the President of “misleading” us into war. The sheer hypocritical posturing of it all is stunning.

Lieberman and Bush have more than the war in common, they are both still the men they were. They are not the ones who have changed. Pols in both parties have danced around all sorts of issues, but George Bush and Joe Lieberman just keep doing what they think is right.

Primarily McLellan’s book made the author look bad for cashing in. It made Bush appear too loyal – one of his big weaknesses – for appointing this nebbish and keeping him on staff when it was obvious to all that he was in over his head.

It’s not just the Democrats. It’s usually them but not exclusively.

John effing Kerry is perhaps the sorriest of the lot – it’s just that the competition is so damn fierce.

I think there’s a very good argument that Lieberman’s adhering more closely to the ideals that liberals used to represent than what the current crop of apparatchiks do. Being a Reagan/Thatcher sort of conservative, I’ve never really paid much attention to Democrats, although I could respect them because of certain individuals in the party over the years (Moynihan was one way back when; Lieberman’s another). But this wholesale, not to mention almost enthusiastic attachment to the idea of failure is just utterly killing what respect I have. Is tearing George Bush’s work apart really so important that the nation’s goals and accomplishment are secondary?

Where are the principled Democrats? Lieberman’s one. Where are the rest?