I think it’s long past time that we trade the Democrats Sen. Chucky Hagle (R-NE) for Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CN). Straight up trade.

I’ll bet most Democrats would jump on this too.

Hagle has long been a shill and mouthpiece for Democratic talking points. Like yesterday where he repeatedly attacks Sen. McCain from one side of his pie hole while praising Obama with the other.

If the Dems won’t trade us Lieberman for him, I think the people of Nebraska need to do the rest of the GOP a favor and retire this man.

Meanwhile, Sen. Lieberman has written a fantastic column in the Wall Street Journal wondering “what happened to the Democratic party?”

…this was the Democratic Party of John F. Kennedy, who promised in his inaugural address that the United States would “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of freedom.”

This worldview began to come apart in the late 1960s, around the war in Vietnam. In its place, a very different view of the world took root in the Democratic Party. Rather than seeing the Cold War as an ideological contest between the free nations of the West and the repressive regimes of the communist world, this rival political philosophy saw America as the aggressor – a morally bankrupt, imperialist power whose militarism and “inordinate fear of communism” represented the real threat to world peace.

Replace “communism” in that last sentence with “black people” and you pretty much just described Michelle Obama’s world view to a tee.

Though I think it’s a bad idea, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Sen. Lieberman as McCain’s VP pick:

Far too many Democratic leaders have kowtowed to these opinions rather than challenging them. That unfortunately includes Barack Obama, who, contrary to his rhetorical invocations of bipartisan change, has not been willing to stand up to his party’s left wing on a single significant national security or international economic issue in this campaign.

In this, Sen. Obama stands in stark contrast to John McCain, who has shown the political courage throughout his career to do what he thinks is right – regardless of its popularity in his party or outside it.

John also understands something else that too many Democrats seem to have become confused about lately – the difference between America’s friends and America’s enemies.

Tell me it doesn’t sound like he’s already campaigning for McCain and against Obama.

The best and most important line quote from Sen. Lieberman, though, is this one:

Mr. Obama has said that in proposing this [meeting with the terrorist leaders of our enemies], he is following in the footsteps of Reagan and JFK. But Kennedy never met with Castro, and Reagan never met with Khomeini. And can anyone imagine Presidents Kennedy or Reagan sitting down unconditionally with Ahmadinejad or Chavez? I certainly cannot.

That’s because they wouldn’t have.

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UPDATE

Marc Ambinder thinks Lieberman might be getting ready to ditch the Democrat in “Independent Democrat”.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 | Trackback |