Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn) has committed one of the unpardonable sins in the democratic party. He is speaking freely and expressing thoughts and feelings that are not ‘progressive approved’.
He has made a statement:

“I have loyalties that are greater than those to my party.”

Appalling! How could he? Throw him to the lions!!

The left is having a hissy fit. They are crucifying him! They are sending him the way of other prominent democrats who have had the gall to exhibit independent thought.

All one has to do is take a gander around the blogsphere to see the pressure and down-right threats the left puts on anyone who doesn’t color exactly within the very firm and well-defined lines of that party.

This is my biggest irritation with the democratic party. It is what has made me vehemently distrust them over the past few years.

They put party affiliation ABOVE their country. It is evident in virtually everything they do. They are willing to lose a war to prove a Republican president is wrong. They will spread lies, disclose national security secrets and spew pure naked hatred at anyone who doesn’t endlessly mechanically repeat their talking points.

You’ve heard it, you know the drill: ‘this is an illegal war’, ‘Bushitler’, America is bad, America brought 9/11 on ourselves, America is hated around the world, sympathy for Palestine, critical of Israel, Republicans are intolerant morons, etc.

So Lieberman will go the way of Zell Miller and any other democrat who does not take the extreme socialist and/or communist views of the far left. Reasoned thinking and a willingness to work TOGETHER with their countrymen for the good of the country is not acceptable for them. It’s party above country at all costs.

They will similarly crucify anyone else who dares to break from their talking points. And they will praise someone who is willing to betray his country to affiliate himself with the power brokers of the left.

Their problem with him is that he understands why we are having to fight this war. The left doesn’t like they. Remember, they ‘support the troops, but not the war’. They don’t want anyone in their party who understands the danger because that gives legitimacy to the Bush administration - doesn’t matter that their position endangers the entire country.

How priviledged and protected would one have to be to not be able to see the danger that is looming all around us? What kind of cocoon would one have to live in? How naive would one have to be? How selfish can one possible be who would put their own agenda above that of the good of our nation - and the world?

The left is completely and utterly intolerant of anyone who doesn’t march to their drum. They will threaten, slander and bully anyone who steps out of line. If they don’t comply and get back in line they are doomed to an onslaught of bad press and vitriolic hatred.

Go to memeorandum to see how the left is trying to whip Lieberman back into shape.

75% of respondents on a poll at Daily Kos say that Lieberman is killing the democratic party. These are the same people who wanted to elect him Vice-President a few years ago. How fickle they are.

While you’re at teh Daily Kos take a look through the comments and notice how threatening they are. It’s in the words and phrases they use. It’s really appalling.

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Washington Post, NYT, Danbury News Times Live

The Moderate Voice has a good round-up of reactions to Lieberman’s ‘political suicide’. [apparently political suicide is defined as standing up for what you believe in and putting love of country above love of a political party.]

Others blogging: A Blog for All and here, The Brothers Judd, Captain’s Qtrs,