I’m of the belief – like others that the Democrats are about to relive 1968 in 2008, and when it happens they will have to think back to Joe Lieberman. You will remember in 1968 that the antiwar left chose Hubert Humphrey to run against Nixon and well, the rest is history.

Do you think they’ve learned from their past mistakes? Doubtful.

The Last Honest Man.

“If Lieberman loses, it will not even be because he supported the war. Almost every leading Democratic politician and foreign policymaker, and many a liberal columnist, supported the war. Nor will he lose because he opposes withdrawing troops from Iraq this year. Most top Democratic policymakers agree that early withdrawal would be a mistake. Nor, finally, is it because he has been too chummy with President Bush. Lieberman has offered his share of criticism of the administration’s handling of the Iraq war and of many other administration policies.

No, Lieberman’s sin is of a different order. Lieberman stands condemned today because he didn’t recant. He didn’t say he was wrong. He didn’t turn on his former allies and condemn them. He didn’t claim to be the victim of a hoax. He didn’t try to pretend that he never supported the war in the first place. He didn’t claim to be led into support for the war by a group of writers and intellectuals whom he can now denounce. He didn’t go through a public show of agonizing and phony soul-baring and apologizing in the hopes of resuscitating his reputation, as have some noted “public intellectuals.”

Lamont has already shown his character earlier this week – coward, for failing to come out and denounce the racist bigotry of his supporters. If the people of Connecticut elect him, they get what they deserve – another “say anything politician”, God help them.

But as others are saying “As goes Lieberman so goes 2008″, I say, “Have at it!”, I welcome it. They were wrong in 1968 and 2004 and everytime they try to run on their antiwar cut and run. It’s never going to sell in a Country founded on the fight for freedom, not the cowardness under fire, that people like Lamont are.

On the ’68 comparison Right Wing Nut observes:

“Reminds me of 1968 – hippiedom was at its height, universities and big cities were torn asunder by riots, and the unpopular Vietnam War continued to drag on with thousands dying on an annual basis. The Democrats, fully in thrall to that decade’s anti-war left, nominated Hubert H. Humphry as their Presidential candidate. The election would go to the Democrats; it was a shoe-in, right?

America instead turned to one Richard M. Nixon instead, much to the amazement of the intellectual elite (and media) of the time. And he got us out of ‘Nam, went to China, stood up to the Russians, and actually brokered the peace that followed the Yom Kipper war in 1973 (after, of course, his re-election in ’72). In a crisis, America knew that strength, not appeasment and navel-gazing, was what was needed to successful move the nation forward.”

Yep, have at it.

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