Joe Lieberman: Passionate Strategist

Joe Lieberman: Passionate Strategist


In a campaign speech Monday in Washington and at last night's labor forum in Chicago, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) came out boldly in favor of, uh, strategy -- that is, what he thinks the Democrats must avoid doing if they want to defeat George W. Bush next year.

That's not to say that Lieberman's speech - large swaths of which could have been delivered verbatim by Clinton pollster and passionate centrist Mark Penn -- was off base. When it comes to general elections, the country usually goes for someone who can appeal to the vast middle, which is one of the reasons why George W. Bush (who ran as a moderate, but has governed as a conservative) is president and not Gary Bauer (news - web sites).

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In Monday's speech, without offering much in the way of specific policy proposals, Lieberman claimed that his leadership would be about helping his party "reclaim the vital center. That is the way for Democrats to earn the opportunity to govern again."


Such comments prove only that it is possible to be both correct and uninspiring. As Lieberman said, it is necessary to win the middle to win the White House. But the energy in the Democratic Party at the moment is on the left, among those who want the party to challenge the president boldly on foreign and economic policy. Thus only one Democrat right now, former Vermont governor Howard Dean, seems to have any momentum. He has surged to the front of the pack by giving the party activists what they want -- red meat attacks on an administration they despise.


Dean has appeared as a welcome breath of fresh air in contrast to the feckless, wimpy Washington Democrats -- at least that's the way some of the activists perceive them - who spend all of their time genuflecting to the likes of Penn and Democratic Leadership Council founder and CEO Al From.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/a21388_2003aug5

..the accounting firms and brokerages....

Go away Joe, you're an embarassment to your party....

TB

My senator, Chuck Schumer, gets them too.

Their tactics may have worked in 1992 before the internet, but they have not clued in to the world of post-election2000. They still don't get it. Maybe they're used to living in a corrupted political world, but we are not and we're still pissed off that the election was stolen.

Passionate Republican.

How about Lieberman the Deflation Candidate -- one who uninspires the electorate.

sarcastic. At least that's how I read it.