Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Mark Levin's Take on Lieberman Defeat

Little Neddy & His Leftist Amigos
The know-nothing, empty-suit, blue-blood Ned Lamont is now the Democrat party's poster boy. He's sort of a John Kerry, but without the Purple Hearts (and he actually inherited most of his fortune from his own family). Lamont follows in the great tradition of his uncle, Corliss Lamont, who was a courageous pacifist during the rise of the Nazis, just as Little Neddy has been heroic in his adamant appeasement of the Islamo-Nazis. And it was impossible to miss some of the Jew-baiters standing behind Little Neddy at the podium last night as he celebrated his landslide (4 percent) victory over a prominent senator of Jewish heritage, e.g., Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson and Al "Interloper" Sharpton. There's something very French about the modern Democrat party ... or is that Vichy French? It's the party of Jim Moran; John Dingel; the late, great Cynthia McKinney; Robert Byrd ("the Conscience of the Senate"); former elder statesmen Fritz Hollings; and, of course, Joe Kennedy Sr. The party of Harry Truman — strong on defense and the first to recognize Israel — is dead. It's now the party of Henry Wallace. Blue-bloods have replaced blue-collars. And Lamonts have replaced Liebermans. Republicans should be ecstatic. The Democrat presidential field was already running left. Now it will run at sprint-speed. The 2008 presidential election is shaping up to be a 1972 rerun. Even Hillary Clinton, former counsel to the Black Panthers, doesn't measure up. "Oh, the times, they are a changin ...."