I knew it was only a matter of time until someone said it. But I didn't expect it to be the VP:
Republicans began a concerted effort to use Mr. Lieberman’s defeat to portray Democrats as weak on national defense, reprising a theme that they made central to the last two national campaigns.
The attacks came in searing remarks from, among others, Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and Vice President Dick Cheney, who went so far as to suggest that the ouster of Mr. Lieberman might encourage “al Qaeda types.”“It’s an unfortunate development, I think, from the standpoint of the Democratic Party, to see a man like Lieberman pushed aside because of his willingness to support an aggressive posture in terms of our national security strategy,’’ Mr. Cheney said in a telephone interview with news service reporters.
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I'm with Josh on this.... It's one thing when the adminsitration was moving the color coded terrror alert system up and down willy nilly in the run up to the last election; it's another thing entirely when the UK cancels flights and shuts down part of ... Read More
This is all really getting a bit ridiculous. Following Lamont's victory on Tuesday, the primary Republican talking point was that, essentially, the Democrats had become the party of terrorist sympathizers. Never mind, of course, that Lamont's position ... Read More
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