Media, sensing Lieberman defeat, start to pile on

The Hartford Courant:

"In the wake of challenger Ned Lamont's surprisingly strong showing at last month's Democratic convention, the race has begun to take shape. Both candidates are trying to define the race - and each other - early. Lamont seeks to cast incumbent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman as an out-of-touch apologist and crucial helper of President Bush's Iraq war and environmental, economic and health-care policies. Lieberman seeks to identify his opponent as an out-of-touch plutocrat. (Lamont, a tech entrepreneur, is worth between $90 million and $300 million.)

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"The Bush administration values Joe Lieberman because he has been a crucial ally in efforts to free Enron-style corporate crooks from regulation, transfer wealth to the wealthy, hound gays, trample on the rights of government critics and sacrifice the lives of thousands of Americans and Iraqis to dishonest, dangerous military adventurism.

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"It's also true that Lieberman has acknowledged some errors. He told me in past interviews that he was wrong to vote with Helms on the gay-bashing proposal. He said he erred in joining the Cheney group. But such after-the-fact admissions ring hollow when he continues to oppose gay marriage, or when he accuses critics of the Bush administration's Iraq war of endangering national security.

"Finally, it's true that Joe Lieberman is a genuinely nice person, a decent man. That has nothing to do with his record, with masquerading as a Connecticut Democrat while enlisting in a Republican assault on Americans' bedrock freedoms and norms of social justice. Good people do awful things when power tempts. In watching this senate race unfold, remembering that adage might help ward off the most dangerous effects of Connecticut's political amnesia."

Read the whole piece. It's devastating!

http://www.courant.com/news/local/northeast/hc-pbass0604.artjun04,0,7611693.column



The New Haven Register:

"NEW HAVEN — The latest Joseph Lieberman ad shows a fuzzy cardboard cutout of his Democratic opponent for the Senate, Ned Lamont, rocking back and forth as the voice-over accuses him of voting against asbestos removal and funding for the health department and in favor of education cuts.

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"The Lamont votes referred to were line-item cuts cast by Lamont from 1990 to 1994 when he was a member of the Greenwich Board of Estimate and Taxation, involving amounts ranging from $150,000 to $450,000 in department requests with the final approved budget showing an increase.

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"People in Greenwich also remember it differently and say they were similar to misleading statements in campaign literature sent to Democratic convention delegates before the May 20 party endorsement vote, which Lieberman won, with about two-thirds of the delegates backing him.

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"Using obscure votes out of context, however, was something Lieberman himself decried in his book, "In Praise of Public Life," when he ran successfully against former U.S. Sen. Lowell Weicker in 1988.

http://www.nhregister.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=16735160&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=517515&rfi=8

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I hoping he's sweating in his little knickers.

are very dedicated to him, in a way Joe is not as dedicated to our party's platform.

I don't want Lieberman to lose because of a media pile-on; I want Lamont to win because I like him.

How's that for a selfish position?

I hope Ned Lamont can turn up the heat even higher. Maybe he needs a lesson in representing the people instead of the corporate interests that wanted the war in Iraq.

and shriven politico. Not a Democrat, anyway.

a defeated and disgraced WAR MONGERING repuke asskisser that he has ended up as!

:evilgrin:

If Lieberman looses I believe it will send a POWERFUL message and likely move the "fence sitters" off their rear ends and have a cascading impact on the party as our elected officials realize their corporate sponsors can no longer protect them from the people. I am going to contribute to his challenger! This is what we need!

toral voting process??

mechanical lever machines.

Joe may me a 'decent man' (whatever that means), but his voting record sucks. I'll take an 'imperfect man' (or woman) that knows how to write good laws any day over a rightwing hack.

:woohoo:

kicked and rec'd

pull the other leg, it has bells on.

"Kerry voted to raise your taxes 3,456 times . and a half.

Bush loves him!

:)

http://www.nedlamont.com

" Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut reproached fellow Democrats for criticizing President Bush during a time of war.

"It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril," Lieberman said."

link:

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/08/democrats.iraq/?section=cnn_latest

and this interesting comment from Sen. Lieberman while in Baghdad

"Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware on Morning Sedition this morning:

I and some other journalists had lunch with Senator Joe Lieberman the other day and we listened to him talking about Iraq. Either Senator Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he's completely lost the plot or he knows he's spinning a line. Because one of my colleagues turned to me in the middle of this lunch and said he's not talking about any country I've ever been to and yet he was talking about Iraq, the very country where we were sitting."

link:

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_11_27_atrios_archive.html#113328407009752558


http://www.nedlamont.com

to the rest of the far right enablers who call themselves Democrats- and yet work tirelessly to promote Republican policies.

weak moral character.

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I'm going to call NEd's office here in New Haven because I have a question about absentee ballots, so I'll find out. They may not want to poll again until Ned gets better known. THAT's the hard part. I haven't seen one other lawn sign besides mine for Ned. Ditto bumper sticker, mine is the lone ranger on that one!

This is an uphill battle, folks. Ned's name recognition is not very high, altho these press stories are really helping. We have to be realistic. GOTV will be tough in early August when so many folks are on vacation (including me)and voting would require getting an absentee ballot. I'm dismayed because a nice potential vote rich source, Yale, is empty of students then. Also a downer, many folks who would LIKE to vote for Ned are unaffiliated and only Dems can vote in the primary.

That said, go Ned!

Lieberman leads the race by 20 or 30 points.

That way when Joe gets overwhelmingly reelected, you'll have something to take your anger out on. Joe 65%, Ned 19%. Case closed

you so - I REALLY want to know.
As for the polls - I know - with the MSM fixing our races, grassroots candidates have no chances. See Clark in the primary of in NYC Gifford vs gasbag Ferrer. What I don't get is: what's in it for ya? Is it the insurance kick offs? the war? the racism? the love of BFEE? What?

:rofl:

Thanks for the laugh.

"According to the same poll, Lieberman kills Schlesinger in a two-man race, 65%-14%, even winning Republicans by an overwhelming margin, 53%-27%. "

But then again, take it with a grain of salt because I got this from National Review:
http://sixers.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzZjMTczMzBkZTE0NzczMTQxZjFjNGZkMjE2YmEyYzQ=

;-)

Seeing the term "Connecticut Democrat" in the article just made this phrase pop into mind. For any who don't immediately recognize it, it's a take-off on Mark Twain's book "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." I wish I had time to do a little satirical piece on this, but I just don't right now.