For one to see the damage Joe Lieberman does to the Democratic Party, all you have to do use the handy Google site search for "Joe Lieberman" on the RNC's website. You can see the results at this link:
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Among the goodies, the RNC blog writes this:
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Lieberman's Praise Of Iraq Progress Being Ignored
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Steyn commented yesterday on the general reluctance to acknowledge the impressive progress being made in Iraq.
He writes "Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, came out with a big statement on Iraq last week. Did you hear about it? Probably not. Everyone was still raving about his Democrat colleague, Rep. Jack Murtha, whose carefully nuanced position on Iraq is: We're all doomed unless we pull out by next Tuesday!"
Steyn goes on to write "So Bush has chosen to embark on a project every other great power of the last half-millennium has shrunk from: the transformation of the Middle East. You can argue the merits of that, but once it's underway it's preposterous to suggest we need to have it all wrapped up by Jan. 24. The Defeaticrats' loss of proportion is unworthy of a serious political party in the world's only superpower. In next week's election, the Iraqi people will shame them yet again."
And there's this doosey on Social Security:
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They Said It! (Sen. Joe Lieberman [D-CT])
SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN (D-CT): "So at some point we've got to stop criticizing each other and sit at the table and work out this problem... Every year we wait to come up with a solution to the Social Security problem [it] costs our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren $600 billion dollars more."
Or using Joe to bludgeon Howard Dean on Iraq by not being the "sensible" democrat:
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The (D) Stands For Defeat
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean stated in a WOAI-Radio interview yesterday that the "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong."
This stunningly defeatist remark came just days after Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman wrote in the Wall Street Journal on the inspiring progress he witnessed on his latest visit to Iraq.
Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said in a statement yesterday that Dean's "outrageous prediction sends the wrong message to our troops, the enemy, and the Iraqi people just 10 days before historic elections."
Or here:
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Reaction To His Statement:
In December 2003, Gov. Howard Dean Said: "The Capture Of Saddam Has Not Made America Safer." (Gov. Howard Dean, Remarks On National Security, 12/15/03)
Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT): "Howard Dean Has Climbed Into His Own Spider Hole Of Denial If He Believes That The Capture Of Saddam Hussein Has Not Made America Safer." (Joe Lieberman For President, "Lieberman Statement On Dean Foreign Policy Speech," Press Release, 12/15/03)
Or defending the RNC that the GOP is not an almst exclusively white party:
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DNC Chairman Howard Dean's recent string of comments about Republicans continues to gain attention from the mainstream media as well as Democrats and Republicans. The Washington Post reports that Democrats such as Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Joe Lieberman said they didn't stand behind Dean's comments that the Republican Party is "pretty much a white, Christian party." Associated Press has RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman's response to Dean from his "Fox and Friends" appearance yesterday
And here we have Bush expressing his admiration for Joementum publicly:
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President Bush: Winning The War On Terror
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, all. Please be seated. It is great to be back to this fine university. Many great military leaders of the 20th century, from Dwight Eisenhower, to Colin Powell, studied on this campus. And today the National Defense University is training a new generation of leaders who will serve and defend this nation in a new century. Americans are grateful for your devotion to duty, and so is your Commander-in-Chief. (Applause.
I am honored that two influential and important members of the United States Congress have joined us. First, Senator Joe Lieberman, strong defender of freedom. Thank you for coming, Senator. (Applause.)
And in the comments section:
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Joe Lieberman proved again last night on c-span that he is a superior level of intellect over his Socilaist hand picked rival... this is a factual statement not IF but IS ( not in the Clinton definition of is)
It's one thing to be a centrist democrat, but when the GOP uses you to attack your party over and over again, it's time to GET VOTED OUT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!! Even if Joe runs as an independent and wins, it will be better for the party because at least he won't be able to besmirch the (D) attached to his name. LETS ROCK THE BOAT TOMORROW!!!
UPDATE: From the comments section by the GOP rank-and-file:
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I would VOTE for Lieberman if he ran against McCain...
...One of only a few sane Democrat voices:
"I strongly supported the war in Iraq. I was privileged to be the Democratic cosponsor, with the senator from Virginia, of the authorizing resolution, which received overwhelming bipartisan support. As I follow the debates about prewar intelligence, I have no regrets about having sponsored and supported that resolution because of all the other reasons we had in our national-security interest to remove Saddam Hussein from power -- a brutal, murdering dictator, an aggressive invader of his neighbors, a supporter of terrorism, a hater of the United States of America. He was, for us, a ticking time bomb that, if we did not remove him, I am convinced would have blown up, metaphorically speaking, in America's face. ... The questions raised about prewar intelligence are not irrelevant, they are not unimportant, but they are nowhere near as im-portant and relevant as how we successfully complete our mission in Iraq and protect the 150,000 men and women in uniform who are fighting for us there." --Senator (and Gore's 2000 VP candidate) Joseph Lieberman on the Senate floor Tuesday (Kudos to you for taking the high road, Senator Lieberman.)
And finally... YAY!
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Item two: Around the same time, the website Daily Kos, which is a power in the Democratic Party and is spearheading the campaign to unseat Joe Lieberman