With Friends Like These, Who Needs Democrats?
Earlier we were looking into the sliding scale definition of “politics.” Now it seems like Joe Lieberman’s provocative political neologism “Independent Democrat” may actually mean “Independent Republican” (via Atrios):
HARTFORD, Sept. 1 — An independent group, Vets for Freedom, will begin sponsoring television commercials early next week for Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, thanking him for his support of the war in Iraq.
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The group is receiving advice from Taylor Gross, a former White House official; Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard; and the Republican strategist Dan Senor. Mr. Lieberman’s former chief of staff, Bill Andresen, is also helping the group, which by law is prohibited from communicating with the campaign.
In the next two months, Mr. Senor said, the ads will be shown on cable news outlets in Connecticut, but the group will also place them in other national media markets. There are no plans to promote any other candidate, but that could change in the next several weeks, Mr. Senor said.
Vets for Freedom. Sound like anyone we know? If this “freedom” is as free as that “truth” was true, we should all be heading for the hills.
Why do conservatives (and the Democrats who love them) have to hide behind bamboozling words and phrases like “Independent Democrat” and “compassionate”? Presumably because the voters wouldn’t like what they’re really selling. Isn’t that strange? Isn’t that lying?
