Lieberman hits out at ‘paranoid’ Democrats

Joe Lieberman, CT Senator, has this much to say about the state of affairs in his former party:

The 2008 Democratic candidates are beholden to a “hyper-partisan, politically paranoid” liberal base that could endanger the final nominee’s chances of winning next year’s presidential election.

He argued that George W. Bush and the Republican presidential candidates remained truer than the Democratic party to its tradition of a “moral, internationalist, liberal and hawkish” foreign policy that was established by Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy.

“The Democratic party I grew up in was unafraid to make moral judgements about the world beyond our borders.”

“[Today’s Democrats] are inclined to see international problems as a result of America’s engagement with the world and are viscerally opposed to the use of force – the polar opposite to the self-confident and idealistic nationalism of the party I grew up in.”

“Even as the evidence has mounted that General David Petraeus is succeeding in Iraq, Democrats have remained emotionally invested in the narrative of defeat.”

“The Democrats’ guiding principle is distrust and disdain for Republicans in general and for Mr Bush in particular.”

Mr Lieberman, would prefer Ms Clinton to become the Democratic nominee.