Joe Lieberman Angling For VP On McCain’s Ticket?
I doubt it given earlier comments from Lieberman himself, but I do think Lieberman is likely talking for a lot of Democrats with these words:
Well, I say that the Democratic Party changed. The Democratic Party today was not the party it was in 2000. It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was strong internationalists, strong on defense, pro-trade, pro-reform in our domestic government. It’s been effectively taken over by a small group on the left of the party that is protectionist, isolationist and basically will—and very, very hyperpartisan. So it pains me. I’m a Democrat who came to the party in the era of President John F. Kennedy. It’s a strange turn of the road when I find among the candidates running this year that the one, in my opinion, closest to the Kennedy legacy, the John F. Kennedy legacy, is John S. McCain.
They’d probably deny it in public, but I think a lot of Democrats aren’t thrilled about the idea of lining up behind someone as far left as Obama is this year. And I think a lot of them are tired of the party being run by folks like George Soros and Nancy Pelosi.
John Kennedy was no conservative, and neither was FDR. But at least Kennedy understood tax cuts, and Roosevelt understood that sometimes America had to go to war. Were either of those men alive today, I think its more likely that they’d be moderate Republicans instead of Demcorats.
