CT-Sen: Kemp thinks Kerry and Clinton comments helping Iran

Joe Lieberman should have known better.  He should have known that by welcoming an attack dog like two-time former Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp into his campaign, this kind of sick rhetoric would be recklessly thrown around.

Yesterday on the Fox news show Your World with Neil Cavuto, Jack Kemp went off on a tangent and suggested that John Kerry and Hillary Clinton were making things easier for Iran by favoring Ned Lamont over Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Senate race:

It is pathetic for the Democratic leadership, including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, who should know better, to really drop this type of political poison on their former Vice Presidential candidate that they proudly campaigned for in 2000, particularly so, Neil, after they voted for war, they voted for the appropriations to try to provide some democratic freedoms in Afghanistan and Iraq.  And now for them to come out for Ned Lamont, who wants to pull out tomorrow, which would leave a gaping hole in our Mideast policy.  It would redound to the benefit of Iran.  Iran has pledged to wipe out Israel off the face of the map.  I just think it's hypocritical, sad and pathetic.

Aside from Kemp suggesting that Clinton and Kerry were helping Iran by supporting Lamont, it's amazing how long Lieberman supporters have been getting away with distorting Ned Lamont's position on Iraq.  Jack Kemp is wrong to conclude that Lamont "wants to pull out tomorrow" from Iraq.  That's not true.  What he supports is a significant transition this year, and a phased withdrawal in 2007.  That is position is much more in line with the view of most Americans than Bush's go-it-alone stay the course policy without an end in sight.