The Voters Of Connecticut Have Spoken
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OrnotBitwise
Watermelon
Ha! Beat ya to it.
robdastud
Junior Member
Ha! Beat ya to it.
he's such a loser
CT-Sen: Lieberman to go indy
by kos
Tue Aug 08, 2006 at 08:14:59 PM PDT
While this race isn't officially over, it's pretty much over. Lieberman just announced that he is running as an independent.
I know Democrats in DC, including many of Lieberman's allies, are horrified at that possibility. Lieberman will tell them all to fuck off. He doesn't care. He doesn't care about promises he made to them to respect the will of the primary voters.
Lieberman's original rationale for collecting signatures was that only 20 percent of Democrats would vote in a summer primary. Well, we got a blockbuster primary turnout. While only about 3 percent of Democrats voted in the Virginia primary a few weeks ago, about 50 percent will have participated today. That's an incredible number -- unprecedented -- for a Senate primary. I'll leave others to do the historical research, but this isn't normal. This is what people-power looks like, and it is changing the face of politics.
Now, Lieberman wants to stab his allies and his party in the back. It won't be the first time.
Here's what we all need to do the next few days:
1. Push Harry Reid to strip Lieberman of all committee assignments.
2. Let people know what a sore loser Lieberman is.
3. Get all Democrats -- including Bill Clinton -- to publicly back Ned Lamont.
4. Get the Democratic interest groups who backed Lieberman to switch allegiances in the general.
The DSCC and the DCCC will have to deal with the fact that this race will continue to suck oxygen from great pickup opportunities. And I won't apologize for that, because as a proud Democrat, I will help in whatever way I can the Democratic nominee from the Great State of Connecticut.
The Republicans rejoiced at Lieberman's decision to stay in. They couldn't be happier. And let's not talk about the lobbyists! They're besides themselves!
Joe Lieberman is not an independent Democrat. He needs to be stripped of his committee assignments and have those handed to real Democrats. And then we need to buckle down and finish the job we started.
This was never going to be easy. it still is not. But in the end, we will prevail.
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OrnotBitwise
Watermelon
Lamont's going to have to keep all of those voters interested. I think he can -- helped by the fact that Lieberman's just pissed of another 10% or so of voters with that crappy speech.
The couple of interviews with lamont I've seen made him seem pretty dull and boring. I hope that's just the view from California or he may have real trouble in the general.
Beefy
Worst gambler ever
No, he's an ass. He puts our country second. Good to see that his constitutents put him 2nd as well.
TheDanold
Unimatrix
Interestingly enough, Lieberman scored a perfect zero for his vote rankings in 2004 from the American Conservative Union, the ONLY senator to get that far left a rating - I guess that just isn't far enough left for today's Liberals...
It is eye opening, Lieberman's defeat shows that if you are a Liberal Democrat and you deviate on even ONE issue (Iraq) then you will be shown the door out of the party, there is no acceptance or tolerance for anyone remotely moderate or not with the pack.
Democrats are the communal party of intolerance.
It is eye opening, Lieberman's defeat shows that if you are a Liberal Democrat and you deviate on even ONE issue (Iraq) then you will be shown the door out of the party, there is no acceptance or tolerance for anyone remotely moderate or not with the pack.
Democrats are the communal party of intolerance.
TheDanold
Unimatrix
The point is that the Iraq war is the only issue he deviates from the party on and most of the bigwigs supported it until public opinion went against it anyway.
Lieberman may be wrong, but he has principles.
TheDanold
Unimatrix
Good for him, what the hell does he owe a party for anyway? Do you think you owe anybody anything?
I sure as hell wouldn't let the GOP tell me what to do and never have.
Lamont is just another rich limosine Liberal masquerading with the party of the little guy. I can't believe you'd even buy his BS, don't let Lieberman hate blind your good sense on seeing others as they are.
robdastud
Junior Member
dano he ran as a democrat, and he lost the nomination, so usually when you lose like that you admit defeat and go on with your life... you saw this in 2000 with the campaigne of 'sore loserman' and he even ran in 2000 for both senate and VP. i mean pick one. LIEberman is always trying to play both sides, have his cake and eat it too.
TheDanold
Unimatrix
Hmmm, Hillary is a big supporter of Iraq war, biggest name recognition, clearly in the establishment and far and away the frontrunner for the party.
Whoops there goes your little fantasy.
robdastud
Junior Member
Alieto
NCLB--which LIEberman voted for and conn is now suing--not exactly representing our interests
shivo... LIEberman sided w/ bush and the veg lady in Fl
sooooo many issues.
TheDanold
Unimatrix
You have a point, in 2000 he was a sore Loserman for again contesting results after the recount.
He conceded and contested nothing, he's just moving on to be an independent, hopefully this will reawaken the moderate in him and we can see more stances like he used to do with supporting school vouchers and choice.
You really should look back at his whole record and not the cherrypicked votes and positions that the Lamont campaign fed you to paint a distorted picture.