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To: sandintoes who wrote (10687)	8/8/2006 11:56:22 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

That really nails it.

To: sandintoes who wrote (10687)	8/8/2006 11:14:31 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Will Sanity Prevail? Although we generally agree more with Republicans than with Democrats, let it never be said that this column is partisan. The proof: We are rooting for Connecticut's Sen. Joe Lieberman to win his primary and Georgia's Rep. Cynthia McKinney to lose her run-off today, even though the opposite outcomes would be good for Republicans and would provide us with lots of good material. Lieberman is under fire from the Angry Left for supporting the liberation of Iraq; his opponent, Ned Lamont, advocates a policy of escapism. As he explained to us in a May interview: George McGovern's slogan [in 1972] was "America, come home," and Mr. Lamont echoes the theme as he describes his conversations with voters. "You talk to striking workers at Sikorsky [a Stratford-based helicopter maker]--they've since settled--and . . . they say, how come we can spend $250 million a day in Iraq and we can't afford health care for all of our citizens? I teach a course at Bridgeport High School about how to start your own business. You talk to the guidance counselors there, and [they] say, how come we're cutting back on sports and arts and [have] not enough money for preschool education, and yet we can afford $250 million a day in Iraq? . . . We ought to be investing in our own future here in this country." Nursery schools may be nice, but they don't prevent terrorism. Lamont has been leading in the polls, but Reuters notes his advantage has dwindled to six percentage points, 51% to 45% in the latest Quinnipiac poll, down from 13 points a week ago. We are on record as predicting a victory by both Lieberman (on "The Journal Editorial Report," July 29) and Lamont (on "Lou Dobbs Tonight," Aug. 4). We're going to go out on a limb and say that at least one of these predictions is likely to prove correct. McKinney, meanwhile, has been running behind challenger Hank Johnson in the polls. The Associated Press notes that McKinney has a new campaign ad in which she describes herself as "not perfect"--surely the first understatement of her political career. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution notes that McKinney "said she would call for the impeachment of President Bush for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' ": "It's the failure to protect the people who survived Hurricane Katrina. It's failure to protect the American people with respect to the events of Sept. 11. This administration has failed across the board," McKinney said. These two elections will help define the range of acceptable opinion in the Democratic Party. If Lieberman loses, it will mean you cannot be strong on national security and be a Democrat. If McKinney wins, it will mean you can embrace the wackiest sort of Angry Left moonbattery and still be a Democrat. Either outcome would give the most partisan Republican cause to smile. But either would be bad for the country, which would benefit from having two sane parties. The Hillary Haters The Boston Herald's Brett Arends reports that New Hampshire voters have some nasty things to say about Hillary Clinton, New York's junior senator: Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he's never seen anything like it. "Lying b** . . . shrew . . . Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch . . . the ultimate self-serving politician." No prizes for guessing which presidential front-runner drew these remarks in focus groups. . . . We're not talking about "soft" negatives like, say, "out of touch" or "arrogant." We're talking: "Criminal . . . megalomaniac . . . fraud . . . dangerous . . . devil incarnate . . . satanic . . . power freak." Satanic. And: "Political wh*." (Note: I don't usually like reporting such personal remarks, but in this case you can hardly understand the situation without them. I have no strong personal feelings about the senator.) We assume the asterisked words rhyme with "rich" and "poor," respectively. Anyway, what's astonishing about these descriptions of Mrs. Clinton is that all of them come from Democrats. According to Bennett, 45% of Granite State Dems have a bad impression of her, and for many of them it is very bad indeed. Must be a vast left-wing conspiracy. opinionjournal.com