"Shaking off the old clothes of rigid received ideas and alliances"

"Your unfair and uneven use of the front page is reprehensible," writes an irate Hartford Courant reader, complaining that "This is the second day in a row that The Courant has featured Joe Lieberman [center inset], complete with large color photo on the front page." Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, right, with Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

News Flash 9/29/06: Roger's Pajamas Media video interview (pre-blogged here yesterday, below) with Senator Lieberman is now available for your listening -- and viewing -- pleasure. Transcript here. Says the lawmaker, right on cue:

The fastest growing political party in America is no party, which is to say, that the fastest growing group of voters are unaffiliated with either party. That’s a marked statement on the two major parties.

"In response to one of my questions, the Senator allowed that he felt running as an independent to be 'empowering,'" writes Roger L. Simon in a totally fascinating teaser for his forthcoming exclusive Pajamas Media interview with Joey Lieberman:

I could see in his eyes that he meant that in deep way. I empathized. I know from my own life how empowering shaking off the old clothes of rigid received ideas and alliances can be. At best, you can be reborn. Not a bad deal for someone whose age has a 6 in front of it.

Like the heart that loves, the heart that shakes off "the old clothes of rigid received ideas and alliances" is forever young. We are particularly thrilled with Joey's epiphany, as those ratty old clothes he donned during his brief and unseemly affair with the "Inconvenient Gasbag" in Election 2000 were ill fitting, indeed. Dr. Sanity's latest post, as always, clarifies:

As long as the left continues to live in the world of denial and play their rhetorical games and use their non-logic to justify the unjustifiable; to tolerate the intolerable; and support the unsupportable; then I will continue to blog and expose their motives and hidden agendas; and do everything I can to prevent them from regaining political power.

This means that no matter how badly I think of the current crop of Republicans -- and I do think very badly of them -- when the alternative is the Party of Denial -- better known as the Democrats and the loud lunatic fringe that they cater to -- then the Republicans are going to get my vote every time. Where once I had the luxury of voting for third party candidates (e.g. libertarian), the stakes are far too crucial now to waste my votes.

Look for Roger's full interview on Pajamas Media soon in video, podcast and text forms. We can't wait. Fun fact: Drudge linked Roger's teaser this afternoon with a classically provocative headline:

LIEBERMAN ON GORE: 'I can forgive . . . but I probably won't forget.'

It caused PJM to crash for a while, but what a way to go. Roger, Roger.

Update: Frosting on the cake. The Professor links.

Comments

[goomp]

Democrat, the party of disaster. Thank freedom for the blogs which encourage looking at the Democrat party as it is.

[hnav]

wonderful post...

"I know from my own life how empowering shaking off the old clothes of rigid received ideas and alliances can be."

i hope Sen. Lieberman will see the light to low taxation someday as well.

of course, i am curious why NBC, CBS, ABC, etc., are not promoting Joe Lieberman's lead in the polls as a bellwether for the Nation, as they did Lamont's primary victory?

[Geary Chase]

Whether you like Joe Lieberman or not, we all need to give him boatloads of respect. The one thing that Joe has, that the Democrat Party lacks, is conviction and loyalty to his Connecticut constituents and the American people!! Run Joe Run!!

[Sissy Willis]

Well, hello, Geary. I just peeked over Goomp's shoulder (am down Maine visiting) and saw what you emailed him. A girl always enjoys hearing that someone loves her blog. Thanks so much for your kind words. :-)

As for when did Sissy become a conservative, I think it sunk in shortly after graduating from college (the usual mugging by reality). These days, I call myself a Darwinian conservative, of course.

Can't wait to visit your own forthcoming blog -- Besure to email me with notification.