The narrow primary defeat of veteran Sen. Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary is more than a loss for one man. It is a loss for his party and for the country. It completes the capture of the Democratic Party by its Taliban wing.
They used to be "San Francisco Democrats," a phrase coined by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick to describe the party's 1984 convention. But they have now morphed into Taliban Democrats because they are willing to "kill" one of their own, if he does not conform to the narrow and rigid agenda of the party's kook fringe.
Mr. Lieberman's one "sin," in the eyes of the Taliban Democrats, was that he supported the effort to defeat the insurgent-terrorists in Iraq. As a Jew, Mr. Lieberman is particularly sensitive to those who have targeted the Jewish people for extinction. But even if he weren't Jewish, he would still "get it," because he understands what's at stake in the region and has correctly concluded that the consequences of American failure in Iraq would be catastrophic. [...]
Taliban Democrats have effectively issued a political "fatwa" that warns all Democrats not to deviate from their narrow line, or else face the end of their careers through a political jihad. Perhaps the few remaining rational Democrats should put on their burkas now and submit to the will of the party mullahs.
The Republican Bloc is facetiously overwhelmed that the Democratic voters in Connecticut decided to oust Joe Lieberman for a simple and selfish reason: They are losing their war footing, and along with that they will actually have to hold themselves accountable for the billions of dollars wasted and fraudulently spent on a war that has only brought about more chaos, justify why tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens were killed for an American war, and tell our children how we let thousands of American soldiers die to build a nation that quite possibly the people living there didn't even want, and not least of all explain why they allowed the President to selectively ignore and violate the The Constitution and the rule of law.
Even with a party-majority Congress is only slightly more effective at legislating than AG Alberto Gonzalez, but with a smaller ideological majority they will be on even shakier ground, by which I mean legal ground. Mr. Thomas' cowardly, divisive and evil statements may only reflect his point of view, but he isn't the first or last to demonize the Democratic party for doing what they do best: understand and follow the will of the American public, which, last time I checked, is what our representatives are supposed to do.
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