That’s Right Nate

Joe Lieberman today blasted his old party as protectionist and isolationist on ABC’s This Week program.  He says that unlike the Clinton years, the current Democratic party is hyperpartisan.

Lieberman, who won re-election to the Senate as an independent after losing the 2006 Connecticut Democratic primary anti-war candidate Ned Lamont, still caucuses with Democrats. But he has endorsed Republican John McCain’s presidential bid, and said Sunday that among the three presidential candidates, McCain comes closest to reflecting the legacy of John F. Kennedy.

This makes sense as JFK and McCain are contemporaries.  McCain and JFK both grew up in the era before World War II and could relate to the tough times of the depression.  They  grew up in an era before television and could remember what it was like to walk miles to school in the snow and go to the movies on the street car and have ice cream afterwards for only a quarter.   They could remember thrilling to The Shadow or laughing at Amos and Andy on the radio.  These are experiences that younger candidates like Clinton and Obama could relate to.  More’s the pity.  Think of the ship of state as being a car…a very big car.  Who would you rather have behind the wheel and driving you into your future–Some young 50 or 60 year old in a hurry? or your kindly old grandpa?