Primarily The Primaries

Two high profile run-offs are happening today. In Connecticut, Democrat Joe Lieberman is attempting to hold his seat against contender Ned Lamont. And in my home state of Georgia, our mascot for the embarassing side of the state, Cynthia McKinney, faces challenger Hank Johnson for the 4th District Congressional seat.

In terms of the Connecticut race for Mr. Lieberman's senate seat,
this piece by Lanny Davis, who is certainly no friend to conservatives, makes some admissions about the Democrats and the left-wing of American politics that we on the right have known, but now some of the more honest lefties are admitting.

There is no doubt that extremes exist on either side of American politics. However, what is generally characterized as extreme right-wing actually is more in line with left-wing leanings. Fascism and Nazism, often attributed as right-wing extremism, is actually left-wing policy. Socialism, which is embraced by the left and often cited as successful policy, was a hallmark of Nazism. Nazism began as a worker's movement, the proper name being the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Here is what Dictionary.com says about fascism (and pay special attention to the reference to National Socialism at the bottom of the "World History" description), and here is the same site on nazism. Does it sound like the right wing, who believes in economic freedom and a small, limited central government, or the left wing socialism?

Nevertheless, I digress. Lieberman has been a pro-war Democrat, and now he is paying the price for supporting President Bush in the Iraq War. Lieberman, by all other accounts, is a progressive (read socialistic) Democrat, except on the issues with Israel and the Middle East. And now loyal democrats, the party of "tolerance", comes out full force against a Jew who supports the Jewish state of Israel, a stance most right wingers have no problem taking, including myself. Many on the left are blaming Israel for the problems in the Middle East. Sounds eerily like one furor of Germany in the 30's and 40's.

In Georgia, many on the right have made a brilliant calculation. How better to guarantee the defeat of a democrat in a democrat district than to support said democrat. And that is just what has happened to Hank Johnson. Several prominent Georgia republicans have came out in support of Mr. Johnson after polls showed him leading Cynthia McKinney in the run-off. This has been fodder for Ms. McKinney in her debates with Mr. Johnson. And so the hope of the right-leaning people is that Ms. McKinney will retain her seat. I cannot say better why than this piece from
Neal Boortz.

I am rooting for the incumbents in both races. For Mr. Lieberman, I root for him because he seems to approach issues with some common sense. I root for Cynthia McKinney because we all need the comic relief.