Joe Lieberman and the future of the Democratic Party

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Kahl, I would agree with you completely. I think voting against Republicans, or voting against a Democrat who is perceived to be too close to the Republicans, is sloppy and poorly informed democracy.

I think the person who deserves votes, be them Democrat, Republican, or whatever, is the person who has a "progressive" plan (i mean that word in the literal sense, not the twisted, scared-to-call-myself-liberal sense) for how to deal with Iraq, as well as the overall war.

I don't think this administration has handled this war perfectly, and as I've said before, I'd love to see a Democrat step in and handle it better. But right now what you have are Republicans who generally believe that the war on terror is a war we need to fight, and then you generally have Democrats who don't really seem so sure that terrorism is even something that exists (see John Kerry in '04, who argued that it was just something we'd always have to live with).

Max, I'll answer your stuff later.