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July 21, 2006
Dems' Enemy Within
This weekend the relatively centrist Democratic Leadership Council will try to figure out a way to deal with their party's enemy within — "netroots" liberals, who have shown decreasing tolerance for anything that reminds them of normal Americans.
Presidential threats Hillary Clinton, Evan Bayh, Tom Vilsack and Bill Richardson will be on hand — but not Mark Warner, who has been going out of his way to pander to the sort of rabid online activists whose support raised Howard "Dr. Demento" Dean to prominence.
An aide for one of Dean's rivals described his netroots backers as resembling the grotesque characters in the "bar scene from 'Star Wars.'" In other words, these weirdoes can be identified as moonbats by sight — if not by smell. They are vying for control of the Democratic Party.
Their deranged leader is not DNC Chairman Dean — who is expendable — but the creepy Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of Daily Kos. When the charred and dismembered corpses of American contractors — all of them veterans with distinguished records — were dragged through the streets of Fallujah, Moulitsas was the guy who reacted with these immortal words:
I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. ... They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.
Moulitsas has dismissed olive branches from "moderate" Dems (if that's not already an oxymoron) with terms like "LOL" and "DOA." Nothing to the right of the Khmer Rouge will win favor from his wing. Yet, thanks to lavish financing from unwholesome characters like George Soros and Peter Lewis, that's where the money is — and increasingly, where the power is.
Senator Joseph Lieberman is no moderate — his voting record is 90% liberal. Yet for his apostasy in supporting the American struggle against Islamofascism in the Middle East, he has been singled out for vilification by the netroots. Moonbat challenger Ned Lamont stands an excellent chance of swiping the Democratic nomination from this 18-year incumbent. If that happens, watch for the Democratic Party either to erupt into civil war, or to tack so far to the Left that their only hope of regaining power will be a coup d'état.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 21, 2006 2:49 PM
Comments
Not to worry. Lieberman will win the election, even if he loses the primary.
The guy is way too left-wing for me, but his enemies are worse.
Posted by: Bird Dog at July 21, 2006 4:29 PM
And, as documented in LGF, DailyKos has run no fewer than Eight "Death to Israel" Posts since Hezbullah's aggression was responded to. I wonder how CT voters feel about Lieberman's opponent getting this kind of support?
Posted by: V the K at July 21, 2006 8:09 PM
If Lieberman loses the primary and the election it could be a good thing. It will bring partisan ideological clarity, and sharpen the differences between the Democrats and the Republicans. It will eliminate the nonsense of those mushy-headed so-called "moderates" who end up muddying the waters and confusing things, and give the American people clear choices at election time. We deserve to have clear choices, not a choice between tweedledum and tweedledee.
Posted by: Andrew P at July 22, 2006 11:16 AM
Checked in with one of my favorite moonbats, Elaine Meinel Supkis, and boyo, is she on a dKos-like tear...US is a "rump state" of Israel, Bush is doing the Zionists' bidding, US and Israel are using WMDs in Lebanon, etc. etc.
That's some high-octane moonbattery there. Whoo-boy.
Posted by: prince of leaves at July 22, 2006 9:51 PM
