Sensible Liberal of the Week: Joe Lieberman

Well, whaddaya know? This week's Sensible Liberal honor goes to the other senator from Connecticut.

The good senator who's now an independent after the Democrats threw him under the bus because—G~d forbid!—he supports the war in Iraq, tears his old party a new one in this editorial from today's New York Post [Hat tip: Lion's Roar].

Highlights:

There is something profoundly wrong—something that should trouble all of us—when we have elected Democratic officials who seem more worried about how the Bush administration might respond to Iran's murder of our troops than about the fact that Iran is murdering our troops.

There is likewise something profoundly wrong when we see candidates who are willing to pander to this politically paranoid, hyperpartisan sentiment in the Democratic base—even if it sends a message of weakness and division to the Iranian regime.

For me, this episode reinforces how far the Democratic Party has strayed ...

That is why I call myself an Independent Democrat today. It is because my foreign-policy convictions are the convictions that have traditionally animated the Democratic Party - but they exist in me today independent of the Democratic Party, which has largely repudiated them.

I understand, Joe. You do what you gotta do.