Lieberman Lies

Lieberman makes the Zell Miller transition final: ‘…the Democratic Party changed.'

When Stephanopoulos asked,

You’re now an independent senator from Connecticut. But no one in your position has ever crossed over like this. You ran for vice president as a Democrat in 2000, ran for president as a Democrat in 2000. And now you are backing John McCain. What do you say to Democrats who say that that shows you’ve abandoned a lifetime of commitments?

Lieberman lied,

Well, I say that the Democratic Party changed. The Democratic Party today was not the party it was in 2000. It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was strong internationalists, strong on defense, pro-trade, pro-reform in our domestic government.

It’s been effectively taken over by a small group on the left of the party that is protectionist, isolationist and basically will –and very, very hyperpartisan. So it pains me.

They are, of course, neither protectionist, nor isolationist, nor even particularly partisan – the damned wusses.

If only they were!