Reply With QuoteNow Leiberman will run as an independent. Doesn't exactly break my heart that he'll lose.
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The Voters Of Connecticut Have Spoken
but LIEberman doesn't hear them...
LAMONT WINS!!!!
Worst gambler ever
Now Leiberman will run as an independent. Doesn't exactly break my heart that he'll lose.
Watermelon
Ha! Beat ya to it.Originally Posted by robdastud
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having."
-- V
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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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its absolute BULLSHIT that LIEberman will run after saying it woudl be low voter turnout... OK, BUT WE HAD HIGH VOTER TURNOUT!!!
OVER 50% thats a majority... LIEberman just likes to change the rules...
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.
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having."
-- V
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mbl are you a LIEberman supporter??
Worst gambler ever
No, he's an ass. He puts our country second. Good to see that his constitutents put him 2nd as well.
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.
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dano he has no regard for the process. he lost, yet vows to continue on.. and your ACL isn't gospel.
btw Lorax misses you and has a post directed for you soley on
Dem (and in quotes) "superstar" mckinney goes down
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furthermore at least the democrats had an issue w/ LIEberman... what say you of Katherine Harris who R's have abandoned b/c not of any issues but b/c she doesn't have a hope in hell of winning... talk about throwing under a bus.
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60% disproval against the Iraq war, and some how that equates to being super left left when LIEberman a staunch supporter of the war loses a primary?
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.
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.
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I love that in the Democratic party it is clear...
Name reconition and being in the establishment does not make you a shoe in... especally if you go against the will of the people!
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