Right-friendly Lieberman's "strategery"...Lamont is too right-friendly

I know, I know...read the following and your head will spin too.

:evilgrin:

One ally has no doubts: Lieberman's old friend and Democratic state chairman, John F. Droney Jr., is publicly urging Lieberman to skip the primary, saying "every single weirdo in the left wing" enraged by Lieberman's support of the war in Iraq will turn out. Lieberman's campaign staff is doing what it can to stay on message, even though Lieberman refuses to rule out bypassing the primary: The Democratic nomination remains winnable. "The campaign is focused squarely on the one task, which is winning the primary in August," said Roy Occhiogrosso, a consultant advising Lieberman.

If he does decide to run as a petitioning candidate, Lieberman will need to do more than collect signatures. More important, he will need to reframe his campaign and give voters a persuasive rationale for his quitting the primary - other than a fear that anti-war and anti-Bush activists might deliver it to Lamont.

One problem is that Lieberman has been trying to discredit Lamont, a rich businessman, among Democrats by saying he was a frequent Republican ally while serving as a local official in Greenwich. But if Lieberman quits the primary and bases his campaign on an appeal to Republicans, unaffiliated voters and conservative Democrats, he suddenly will have to argue that Lamont really is allied with a far-left minority within the Democratic Party.

"The message shifts overnight, and that's the hard part," said George Jepsen, a former Democratic state chairman and state Senate majority leader. Or, as Lamont's campaign manager, Tom Swan, said: "Is Ned a Republican, or a `left-wing weirdo?'"

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-sendecide0618.artjun18,0,4802795.story?coll=hc-headlines-home

the Republican's favorite tactic, The Big Lie, as pioneered by Josef Goebbels.

For example if your opponent is a war hero, like Max Cleland, John McCain or John Kerry, paint him as the coward you know your candidate to be. Or in this case, the right-wing enabler you know your candidate to be. The charges don't even have to stick, just create enough confusion to level the playing field.


Way to go, Joe. Forget about running as an Independent. Surely, Karl Rove can pull some strings and get the Republican nomination for you. Too late? Don't worry. Rules (and laws) are written only to be broken in the BushAmerica you have helped to create.

So stop saying that.

The OP didn't - and, if it was in the story (and I missed it), then the author of the OP-Ed is saying it, not the OP.

Or did you forget to use this: :sarcasm:

not flame-bait - just wanting to know. The fact is that Joe's pretty Dem on the environment and such. If Ned's going to be anti-war but a Repub on all other issues (minimum wage, environment, etc.), that's not that good either

as a Democrat in Republican controlled Greenwich.

Lieberman is intentionally distorting Lamont's record as selectman and falsely accusing Lamont of being a closet Republican just because he is a multi-millionaire. JFK, one of Lieberman's heroes, was wealthy, like Lamont, and he was a Democrat.

Lieberman is grasping for staws because he doesn't want to have to defend his Neo-con-Republican-friendly tactics.

It seems to me that the seat will remain D in any case. I wish Joe would have not stayed so loyal to Smirk this whole time. He's been a good senator.

poor Senator (LIEberman) to represent them or a very good Senator (Lamont) to represent them.