The Talking Points From The Same Neocons Who Brought Us "Sore Loserman"

[mhatrw]

This NY Sun editorial's hand wringing is so over the top, it's hilarious!

http://www.nysun.com/article/37615

The Jihad Against Joe

New York Sun Editorial
August 9, 2006

As these columns went to press last night, it was still too early to call a victor in Connecticut's Senate primary. One thing is sure despite the outcome, however: Senator Lieberman confronted more than just a hard-fought campaign. He was up against a jihad. If Mr. Lieberman is celebrating a victory this morning, it's a sign that there is still room for moderation in the Democratic Party. ... The portent for the party's future will be only more troubling if Senator Lieberman is collecting his wits this morning after a defeat. Exactly how troubling will depend on the outcome of an investigation into the fate of Mr. Lieberman's campaign Web site. ...

To what do the attacks on Mr. Lieberman speak? As far as we can tell, to no concern more noble than anti-Semitism and racism, with a smattering of anti-Bush paranoia mixed in for taste. ... Even so, holding hateful opinions and acting on them are two different things. The question now is whether supporters of Mr. Lieberman's opponent crossed that line. It certainly seems suspicious that Mr. Lieberman's campaign Web site would crash just hours before polling, taking with it the campaign's e-mail service including the ability to send get-out-the-vote messages to voters' inboxes. ... Given that the rhetoric Mr. Lieberman's opponents have been spewing is better suited to a Klan meeting than a senatorial primary, the senator is certainly justified in being suspicious that something more than a mere computer glitch is at work.

... Whatever that indication is, it will be hard to forget how we have come to this pass. Democrats can no longer avoid the question of whether they want to be increasingly beholden to entrepreneurs in bigotry who are purveyors of the oldest hatred and who approach politics with a perverse fervor and will stop at no dirty trick to stifle opposing points of view.


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So Lieberman lost because he was terrorized by anti-Semites on a jihad against him and Lieberman bringing down his own website was a hate crime?

[wiley]

1. K and R - Make them eat their feces at the NY Sun

[Eurobabe]

2. Oh, puhhhleasseeee...the Dems of CT have spoken

Give it a rest NY Sun.

A jihad, LMAO. Joe's been on a jihad against the American people since he kissed Bush's ass years ago.

[Robbien]

3. Just like a GOPer, playing a victim card. Joe lost because of racists.

Nothing Joe did matters, it was all about racism.

[mhatrw]

4. More Ridiculous Republican Talking Points

http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/politics/story/3346910p-12323569c.html

The challenge for Democrats is that Republicans already are pointing to the anti-war activists who flocked to Lamont, and their penchant for edgy political tactics, as evidence that Democrats can't be trusted with the nation's security.

"We'll soon find out just how significant this election is, but it's a problem for Democrats long-term," the Senate's second-ranking Republican, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said after Lamont had won.

"The McGovern wing of the Democrat party seems to have forgotten that we've been on offense for the last five years and that's why we haven't been attacked here at home."

[mhatrw]

6. Time Magazine Serves Up Some More Repuke Talking Points

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1224538,00.html

Moreover, the victory for the Netroots may not be complete. Lieberman has said that he will run as an independent and he'll have some momentum going into that race: polls last week showed Lamont up by as much as 12 and Lieberman closed that gap to only four points. And Lieberman officials already created a new rationale for seeking another run at the Senate by accusing Lamont supporters of crashing Lieberman’s website on Election Day.

But while it may empower the bloggers, Republicans are predicting Lieberman's defeat will actually help them keep control of Congress this November — and many Democrats have the same worry. Lamont's victory will no doubt give Republicans ammunition to caricature the Democratic Party as too liberal.

Mary Matalin, an outside adviser to the White House, signaled the message when she said on Fox News Channel shortly after the polls closed: "MoveOn is not fringe. They're the heart of the party." One House Democratic official said party members had been "urgently trying to send the message to Connecticut voters that a Lieberman loss jeopardizes our ability to take back the House." Some Democratic officials said they can already imagine the ads in November races saying that Lieberman, once within a few hundred votes of being Vice President of the United States, is now "not liberal enough" for the Democratic Party.

[mhatrw]

8. More Laughable Talking Points: FEAR, FEAR, FEAR OUR ENEMIES!!!

Muslim = Terrorist, Iraq War = War on Islam = War on Terrorism

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/442047p-372286c.html

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So now that the wackadoo wing of the party has a bloody scalp, what are they going to do with it? Wave it at Islamic terrorists in Iraq and Lebanon and Afghanistan and Indonesia and Great Britain and Spain and Israel and New York and declare peace? That will work for sure. They better also wear armor and duck. Lieberman is the first casualty of the war against the war on terror. If last night's results are a window on the party's tilt, then a huge slice of the Democratic party is ready to sit out the war to protect America. God help us if the Republicans also get the wobblies. Let's hope the Connecticut Condition isn't contagious. And let's hope last night's decision is overturned.

That is happening across our nation with Iraq, which, given the lousy intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, never was a "good" war. Yet Iraq, in all its hellishness, is important, even vital to regional stability and American security. Unplug America's commitment there, which is what the Lamont crowd is about, and how exactly does that help us? Will the terrorists suddenly stop attacking us and our allies? And does the price of peace also require us to abandon Israel and the moderate Arab governments who are our allies in fighting the terrorists? Indeed, there was a surreal quality to the television news last night: Stations cutting away from the Israeli-Hezbollah war to update the election results, and vice versa. Too bad no one thought to link them as two parts of one story, which is what they are.

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This is fantasy. And that's what Lamont's victory is based on. That somehow we can pull out of Iraq, tell the terrorists they win - and we and our allies will not suffer any consequences. And if those Islamists misbehave, well, we'll just scoot back over there with our police force and arrest those naughty fellows. I believe that Islamic terrorists will stop at nothing in their mad quest to rule the globe. As a result, World War III has started, whether we like it or not. It will continue, whether we fight back or not. But if we think we can win by not fighting, then we're not just wrong. We're nuts. As in nutmeg.

[Reckon]

5. Way over the top and it's also telling about who's pocket Loserman

has been in. "NeoCons"

LaMont was also shocked to hear about the Sore Loserman camps pack of made up LIES reported in RollingStone!

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/10963174/lieberman_bushs_favorite_democrat

[Apollo11]

12. A great article!

Thanks for posting the link.

For those who haven't read it yet, here's a taster:

If you believe the propaganda emanating from Lieberman and his coterie of whore-cronies in the Democratic Leadership Council, Lamont is a dangerous, pillar-crushing revolutionary, a preppy, tanned mixture of Lenin and the Ayatollah. The Democrat insiders' strategy vis-à-vis Lamont is very similar to the one used to dispose of Howard Dean a few years back, only it's even more savage this time around: They have chosen to go after Lamont's supporters in the blogosphere, deriding the likes of "Daily Kos" founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and the wackos at MoveOn.org as "liberal fundamentalists" bent on liquidating poor Lieberman for the sake of radical leftist orthodoxy. The DLC started the smear campaign in June with an editorial called "The Return of Liberal Fundamentalism" that used the word "purge" no fewer than eight times, in case you missed the KGB motif the first seven times.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. This is the New York Sun

Wait for something respectable.

[mhatrw]

9. Can't you just see the froth on the corner of the authors' mouths?

This thread is for entertainment value only.

[Jack Rabbit]

10. Most political punditry is for entertainment value only nowadays

!!

[CrushTheDLC]

11. The NY Sun has it's head so far up the Likud party's ass....

..that even Kristol's Weakly PNAC Standard looks reasonable by comparison.

[fasttense]

13. Why are the neocons so upset about Lieberman's loss?

Because he was one of them and they know it. Ann the man supported him and said he should stop pretending and run as a republic. For all practical purposes Lieberman was a republic. But it seems the democratic majority in CT doesn't want him. It is the will of the people.

[Crunchy Frog]

14. Anti-semitism?

Yeah, and Tom Delay's troubles are about anti-Christian persecution too.:eyes: