The Pendragon's Hall

The Bull Moose is correct on this one: the Democrats cannot afford to lose Joe Lieberman. He's one of the few national sane voices for liberalism. Classified as a staunch conservative (something I'm fine with) the Pendragon has often been accused of wishing one-party dominance for infinity. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have no objection to liberalism having its say, what I'm sick of is hearing Teddy Kennedy and others like him hijack a legitimate point of view and turn it into treason. I'm also tired of being told that conservatives must give over or die. The Right's latest defector, Newt Gingrich, is displaying more of the idiocy that doomed his legacy in the 90s, self-righteously telling the Democrats they could run on the slogan, "Had enough yet?" But this slogan does nothing for the Democratic Party. It keeps them in as the Party whose sole agenda is undermining the current order of things, without any clear alternative of their own. The Democrats cannot long survive on this. They must create a plan for running America that is better than the one the Bush Republicans are employing currently. In the meantime, the Republicans actually have a plan and are trying to implement it. The Democrats, sans a few good men like Joe Lieberman and Andrew Cuomo, are simply screaming in anger. The voters have repeatedly demonstrated they are not going to be impressed with this, but the Democrats cling tenaciously to the hope that someday it wil actually work. I think it will take a lot more than domestic wiretapping and a few terror attacks in Iraq.