"The New Republic" endorses Lieberman

[Kat45]

"Only Lieberman--the supposed candidate of appeasement--is challenging his party, enduring boos at event after event, to articulate a different, better vision of what it means to be a Democrat. Three years ago, that vision seemed ascendant. Today, it is once again at the margins. It may take years, or even decades, for Democrats to relearn the lessons we thought, naïvely, they had learned for good under Clinton. But one day, Joe Lieberman's warnings in this campaign will look prophetic. And the principles he has espoused will once again guide the Democratic Party. It will be the work of this magazine, to whatever small degree possible, to hasten that day."

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040119&s=editorial011904

I've read this magazine for quite some time, and I've more recently been thinking of it as a formerly-liberal-turned-centrist magazine. Some of its writers are more left, some more right, but generally a centrist line. But I've recently seen TNR referred to as a neoconservative magazine. I'm still not sure what to make of that: I'd sure be upset to know that I was reading one of those. When I saw this Lieberman endorsement today, I did a double-take. If Lieberman is the editors' idea of the correct direction for the Democratic party, perhaps I should not be reading this magazine. In any case, I was surprised to see an endorsement of Lieberman (anywhere) and thought I'd share it with you.

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[LuminousX]

2. The Lieberman Campaign picks up much needed steam

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. TNR tows the Neo-Con line on foreign policy. May I advise you...

not to read TNR as a "trusted source of news" anymore.

By the way, what is up with this sudden inlux of pro-Lieberman support tonight?

[Tom Rinaldo]

15. Lieberman support here?

It's a spoof. Actually pretty funny in my opinion. I have a sneaky suspicion though that it's a few Dean supporters trying to make a humorous statement about how easily a message board can be "taken over" to create an orchestrated swell of support, by organized backers of a devious candidate, their most likely target: Clark and his slavishly mindless foot soldiers like me, who obviously must be following central orders to invade and conquer DU. I don't got no proof though.

[Crunchy Frog]

21. I disagree

I have always been impressed with the honesty and integrity of the Dean supporters. I believe that they are for real on this, and that it reflects their genuine ideological tendencies.

I respect them for being so straitforeward, although I must admit it will be difficult for me to vote for someone so ideologically close to Lieberman.

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[LuminousX]

16. Do Lieberman supporters call themselves Lieberkins?

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[ClintonTyree]

10. You're kidding, right?

Please, tell me you're kidding.

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[jonnyblitz]

6. its been centrist/likud forever...andrew sullivan was the editor

I have been reading it since the early 90's and never thought it to be liberal. Back in the day I hear it used to be as left as the Nation.

[janx]

7. This is NOTHING. It doesn't mean anything. Dean has more

endorsements and Lieberman won't even be able to rack up much. TNR is biased anyway, as we've seen from the start.

This combined with the traitorous ex-supporters of Dean may lead some to believe that Joe's going to win, but we'll just see about that.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

11. May I ask you if you think that there is something wrong here....

with all of these Dean supporters suddenly supporting Lieberman.

I do not support him, but I am seeing something odd here.

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[janx]

17. Damn right I see something wrong here.

I see a lack of allegiance. I see unAmericanism. I see treason!

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[Blue_State_Elitist]

9. hmmm

Joe Lieberman or Bush ass licker, I can't tell the difference.

[Algorem]

13. They're right.He should become a new Republican.

They might need him after Bush is exiled to Mars.

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[flaminbats]

19. The working class is losing its voice in the media.

First we saw CNN being sold, and then it happened to many of the locally owned Newspapers and T.V. stations. Now it is happening to previously ignored media outlets like New Republic and IE America.

How much longer before the cycle is complete, so that government propaganda becomes the requirement to have a broadcast license or to prevent investigations from the department of homeland defense?

[Crunchy Frog]

20. My mother got me a gift subscription

to it a few years ago, and I was bothered enough by it's tone that I asked her to please cancel it. I believe that it has a nery strong neoconservative tilt to it, while masquerading as a liberal magazine.

I have never regretted getting my subscription cancelled.

[DieboldMustDie]

22. TNR was pro-war...

prior to the Iraq invasion. They're kind of centrist domestically, but well to the right on foreign policy.