Disclosure: I worked for the Lamont campaign doing web design and production and some writing for the official blog (from 9/5/06 to 11/07/06).
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Saturday News Round-Up
- The Fairfield Weekly followed Ned to a candlelight vigil in Westport last weekend marking our country's entrance into the fourth year of the failed Bush-Lieberman policy in Iraq:
Democratic senate candidate Ned Lamont, who is challenging U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, was standing among the vigil holders, a minor celebrity in their midst. Soft-spoken but direct, Lamont in his tan suede coat looked every bit the Fairfield County dad that he is. Taking a hard stand against the Iraq War puts Lamont in direct contrast to go-along Lieberman, and is winning him favor among those, like the protesters, who are fed up with pro-war DINOs, or Democrats in Name Only. The war, says Lamont, "was a tragic decision for our country. I pray for our troops that our government gets its wits about it."
Joe Lieberman said yesterday he wants our troops to stay in Iraq until at least 2009. For our country, I pray that he gets his wits about him soon, too. - The Weekly Standard (subscription required) runs a profile on Lowell Weicker and reports on what is likely the most underrerported aspect of the CT Senate race: the lingering possibility that the 75-year-old Weicker will enter the race as an Independent if Lieberman were to pull out the victory in the Democratic primary. If this series of events plays out, Lieberman will almost certainly be very damaged, Lamont's supporters will flock to Weicker in droves, and the general might be a real race. If only more politicians like Weicker were around today, in any party:
"We are all about to lose a country--ours, not Iraq," he bellowed, with the passion of a man half his age. "The greatest casualty of this war is the image we have of ourselves and the reality of what we have become. How did matters get to this point? How have we moved from Norman Rockwell's America to a United States where violence, torture, mendaciousness, spying, propaganda, and disregard for the law have become the new patriotism?"
- Students for Lamont notes that Scaredy Joe is staffing up in the state, big-time.
- The new official Lamont website is apparently set to launch this weekend. Keep an eye out.
- Finally, from the Courant's blog comes a revealing and representative example of the ideology of Lieberman's "base":
"Joe Lieberman will be re-elected by the largest margin in state political history based on the bankrupt issues and goals of the Democratic Party, and rightly so."
Lieberman's strongest supporters hate everything the Democratic party stands for.
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Your students for lamont link has a typo and doesn't work - you have an extra slash at the end.
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The American Prospect profiles Lamont's challenge (full article only for subscribers) and suggests why the Democratic heirarchy is so eager to keep their resident Republican in place. He has earned their loyalty the old-fashioned way - by buying them off:
With more than three decades in public office, Lieberman’s favor bank overflows with chits he can call in. The most significant of these? His financial hold on the party apparatus. Lieberman provided nearly $1 million to the state party in 2000, the year he ran simultaneously for reelection to the Senate and as Al Gore’s running mate. The senator is up front about the consequences a primary would have on the state party’s treasury: If he must fend off a challenger, money just won’t be available to Connecticut Democrats for their own campaign operations, their May convention, or for tough, targeted House races against Republicans Chris Shays and Rob Simmons. “A credible primary challenge would make that difficult,” Lieberman campaign manager Sean Smith says.
With more than three decades in public office, Lieberman’s favor bank overflows with chits he can call in. The most significant of these? His financial hold on the party apparatus. Lieberman provided nearly $1 million to the state party in 2000, the year he ran simultaneously for reelection to the Senate and as Al Gore’s running mate. The senator is up front about the consequences a primary would have on the state party’s treasury: If he must fend off a challenger, money just won’t be available to Connecticut Democrats for their own campaign operations, their May convention, or for tough, targeted House races against Republicans Chris Shays and Rob Simmons. “A credible primary challenge would make that difficult,” Lieberman campaign manager Sean Smith says.
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"Joe Lieberman will be re-elected by the largest margin in state political history based on the bankrupt issues and goals of the Democratic Party, and rightly so."
Whoever wrote this prophesizing comment might want to keep his/her dayjob. I just don't see a future for that person as a psychic.
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Whoever wrote this prophesizing comment might want to keep his/her dayjob. I just don't see a future for that person as a psychic.
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