LIEBERMAN ANNOUNCES BID FOR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
http://www.ctnow.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=hc%2Dhorgan0115%2Eartjan15 Denis Horgan writes a good editoria for the Hartford Courant-- DEMOCRAT' ISN'T A DIRTY WORD. A couple of paragraphs below:

I hope we didn't mortify Joe Lieberman too much by calling him a Democrat in our headlines. "A Different Democrat," we trumpeted.

"Democrat" isn't a word Lieberman uses much about himself. It was only at the end of his declaration for the presidency Monday that he mentioned any Democratic connections at all, and that was in passing, distancing himself as "different."

In fact, his new presidential web page doesn't mention even once that he is a Democrat or that his successful office holding has been as a Democrat or that he is pursuing the Democratic nomination for the presidency.

Democrats? Who needs 'em? Actually, there are a few other Democratic guys cluttering the way, pursuing the same nomination - assuming that it is the Democratic nomination that Lieberman is seeking after all.

(Even the harshest Republicans have to tip their hats to the Democrats' gigantic jobs program: More people are finding work on "presidential exploratory committees" than are being taken on by the steel industry. What a great job! Explore for a while and boldly announce that Candidate X is a peach for the White House. Has any exploration come up with the result: "Sorry, you are a flop and loser. Stick to your day job?" Of course not.)

In his welcome announcement, Lieberman seven times talked about rising above partisan politics as if partisan interests were only something to be overcome. There are people for whom partisan politics is a measure of philosophy, values and direction

Take a look at the whole editorial. Lieberman is a loser candidate for the Democratic Party. He talks Democratic pious platitudes but votes for Republican lunacy. He may think he is in the middle of the political spectrum, but he is on another disconnected plane isolated from Democratic activists. He communicates like a wet dishrag. I can listen to him for no more than a few seconds without getting something like a gag response. My wife demands that the channel be changed the minute he comes on screen. I had the same reaction with Reagan and I watch bush only to see how he butchers language and logic. Gephardt and Lieberman must be two of the most inappropriate presidential candidates for a Democratic primary of the many announced or rumored to be running. -------- Doug Wiken

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