This is an interesting read, and follows something I commonly call pot meets kettle.  A liberal suddenly realizes that all the accusations he has made against conservatives are just as prevalent in his own party.

The fact is that intolerance and stupidity embrace all in both parties.  This realization he has noted is not new by any means.  The recent backstabbing campaign against Joe Lieberman merely brought it to light, as Joe’s opponent was supported heavily by the Kossacks, the rabid death eaters who frequent the Daily Kos, whose daily commentary make Ann Coulter look like a school marm.

The whole issue surrounding Joe is fairly sad.  The man made the mistake of following principle regarding the Iraq war and had a moderate stance, for which his own party slew him.  I don’t realistically expect him to win the primary nomination today.

If he does not he has pledged to run independent, and in that I wish him luck.

But it emphasizes how out of touch many democrats are, as well as how quickly they forget.  Here is the Democratic nominee for Vice President from 2000, and suddenly his running mate will not even endorse him.

There’s some gratitude for ya.

Former President Clinton did, but that in modern politics is not really the glowing nomination it used to be.

What this just illustrates is how the liberal extremists, the anti war left wingers, have really gotten a hold of the Democratic party.

Bill Clinton was in many respects a decent president, and part of his appeal was his moderate positions.  With his party swinging so hard to the left, I wonder what this will mean for his wife, who is still considered a strong contender for the presidency in 2008, particularly since she, like Joe, has supported the war.

We shall see.

Also note, how much anti Semitic commentary is used to attack Joe.  Nicely tolerant there liberals…The next time you accuse the Republicans of being racists, search for the word Jew at the Daily Kos and see what it gets you.  Then I challenge you to find the same level of bigoted rhetoric at any prominent conservative site.

Liberal McCarthyism: Bigotry and hate aren’t just for right-wingers anymore.

BY LANNY J. DAVIS 

My brief and unhappy experience with the hate and vitriol of bloggers on the liberal side of the aisle comes from the last several months I spent campaigning for a longtime friend, Joe Lieberman.

This kind of scary hatred, my dad used to tell me, comes only from the right wing–in his day from people such as the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, with his tirades against "communists and their fellow travelers." The word "McCarthyism" became a red flag for liberals, signifying the far right’s fascistic tactics of labeling anyone a "communist" or "socialist" who favored an active federal government to help the middle class and the poor, and to level the playing field.

I came to believe that we liberals couldn’t possibly be so intolerant and hateful, because our ideology was famous for ACLU-type commitments to free speech, dissent and, especially, tolerance for those who differed with us. And in recent years–with the deadly combination of sanctimony and vitriol displayed by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Michael Savage–I held on to the view that the left was inherently more tolerant and less hateful than the right.

Now, in the closing days of the Lieberman primary campaign, I have reluctantly concluded that I was wrong. The far right does not have a monopoly on bigotry and hatred and sanctimony. Here are just a few examples (there are many, many more anyone with a search engine can find) of the type of thing the liberal blog sites have been posting about Joe Lieberman:

• "Ned Lamont and his supporters need to [g]et real busy. Ned needs to beat Lieberman to a pulp in the debate and define what it means to be an AMerican who is NOT beholden to the Israeli Lobby" (by "rim," posted on Huffington Post, July 6, 2006).

• "Joe’s on the Senate floor now and he’s growing a beard. He has about a weeks growth on his face. . . . I hope he dyes his beard Blood red. It would be so appropriate" (by "ctkeith," posted on Daily Kos, July 11 and 12, 2005).

• On "Lieberman vs. Murtha": "as everybody knows, jews ONLY care about the welfare of other jews; thanks ever so much for reminding everyone of this most salient fact, so that we might better ignore all that jewish propaganda [by Lieberman] about participating in the civil rights movement of the 60s and so on" (by "tomjones," posted on Daily Kos, Dec. 7, 2005).

• "Good men, Daniel Webster and Faust would attest, sell their souls to the Devil. Is selling your soul to a god any worse? Leiberman cannot escape the religious bond he represents. Hell, his wife’s name is Haggadah or Muffeletta or Diaspora or something you eat at Passover" (by "gerrylong," posted on the Huffington Post, July 8, 2006).

• "Joe Lieberman is a racist and a religious bigot" (by "greenskeeper," posted on Daily Kos, Dec. 7, 2005).

And these are some of the nicer examples.

One Sunday morning on C-Span I debated Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on the Lieberman versus Lamont race. Afterwards I received a series of emails–many of them in ALL CAPS (which often suggests the hyper-frenetic state of these extremist haters)–that were of the same stripe as the blog posts, and filled with the same level of personal hate.

But the issue is not just emotional outbursts by these usually anonymous bloggers. A friend of mine just returned from Connecticut, where he had spoken on several occasions on behalf of Joe Lieberman. He happens to be a liberal antiwar Democrat, just as I am. He is also a lawyer. He told me that within a day of a Lamont event–where he asked the candidate some critical questions–some of his clients were blitzed with emails attacking him and threatening boycotts of their products if they did not drop him as their attorney. He has actually decided not to return to Connecticut for the primary today; he is fearful for his physical safety.

I do not blame Joe Lieberman’s political difficulties on the liberal blogosphere. Most Connecticut Democrats voting for Mr. Lamont are genuinely outraged at President Bush for his Iraq War policies. They are entitled to express that outrage by voting for him and against Sen. Lieberman on that basis alone, although Sen. Lieberman’s record as a progressive Democrat and his opposition to President Bush not only on most domestic issues but also on the conduct of the war cannot be disputed–despite egregiously distortive ads paid for by Mr. Lamont with $4 million of his own money.

Moreover, the support he gets from these haters should not be attributed to Mr. Lamont–nor should he be blamed for their extremism, bigotry and intolerance. But he ought to denounce them. He hasn’t as yet.

Mr. Lamont and all other liberal Democrats should remember the McCarthy era and not fall into the trap of the hypocrisy of the double standard–that it’s not OK when Ann Coulter dispenses her venomous hatred, but it is OK when our side’s versions of Ann Coulter do.

Mr. Davis, former special counsel to President Clinton between 1996-98, is the author of "Scandal: How ‘Gotcha’ Politics Is Destroying America," forthcoming from Palgrave.

Also at Michelle Malkin, Sister Toldjah, Don Surber, Joe Gandelman, Ankle Biting Pundits, Powerline, Blue Crab Boulevard, Liberty and Justice

UPDATED

Apparently Lamont’s supporters are not just calling Joe names:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/08/D8JCC8387.html

Lieberman Campaign Says Web Site Hacked

Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, who was locked in a battle with a political novice fueled by anti-war sentiment in the nation’s most closely watched primary race Tuesday, accused his challenger’s supporters of hacking his campaign Web site and e-mail system.

Lieberman campaign manager Sean Smith said the campaign has contacted the Connecticut attorney general’s office and asked for a criminal investigation by state and federal authorities.

"If Ned Lamont has a backbone in his body, he will call on these people to cease and desist," Smith said.

Lamont, campaigning early Tuesday afternoon in Bridgeport, said he knew nothing about the accusations. "It’s just another scurrilous charge," he said.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office declined immediate comment. Calls placed to the FBI and the chief state’s attorney’s office seeking comment were not immediately returned.

Smith said the site began having problems Monday night and crashed for good at 7 a.m.

"Voters cannot go to our Web site. They cannot access information," Smith said. "It is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise voters.

Interesting choice of words,  Considering that was Joe and Al’s mantra in 2000, as they accused the Republicans of disenfranchising voters in Florida,  the fact they are leveling that same charge at their own party is interesting indeed.

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