Reply #30: He's a deeply religious orthodox Jew and a foreign policy hawk

[dolstein]

Three of the things that DU'ers despise most are:

1. Israel
2. Any public discussion of reglious beliefs
3. Foreign policy hawks

Lieberman's got three strikes against him. He's an orthodox Jew (and hence presumed to be the puppet of Ariel Sharon). Even worse, he speaks openly of his reglious faith. And finally, he is much more willing to support the use of American force abroad than the typical DUer (who has trouble imagining ANY circumstances where the use of force is justified).

The confluence of these three factors has generated the perfect storm of mindless hatred which simply renders many DUers incapable of speaking rationally about Lieberman, and causes many to deliberately ignore and distort his liberal voting record.