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).
Monday, July 10, 2006
Monday Morning Round-Up
The debate that will not die:
- The New Haven Register admits that Lamont, "the reformer," won the debate, even though they disagree with his politics:
In the debate, Lieberman cast himself as a business-as-usual politician, stressing his seniority, the benefits he has won for the state with his 18-year incumbency and his comfort with the Senate’s folkways.
Lamont may be a political novice. But apart from a shaky start under Lieberman’s attacks, he successfully portrayed himself as a knowledgeable reformer unwilling to play along with a system that ensures that once elected, incumbents like Lieberman can keep their seat for life. - Bill Curry, writing in the Courant, thinks Ned did what he had to do on Thursday:
For his part, Lamont needed to show people he could be a senator. He cleared that jump but with a style so earnest and highly caffeinated that the bar rattled some as he went over. He gained composure by the end of the debate, nearing parity with Lieberman, no small feat for a first-timer.
- Kevin Rennie, also writing in the Courant, calls Lieberman's campaign "faltering" and laments the senator's precipitous fall:
However much he invests in the next four weeks, expect a different Joe Lieberman to show himself. That usually pious demeanor may keep the spiky edge revealed in the debate. The campaign has been polling on themes. Specifically, themes meant to deflate the rising Ned Lamont. They've even been asking voters if they would be less likely to support Lamont if they knew he got a hybrid vehicle after announcing he would run for the Senate.
What a long way Joe Lieberman has fallen in a short time. From expert on international affairs and world peace to taking an inventory of Ned Lamont's garage. He's starting to look like roadkill. - Speaking of precipitous falls, Political Arithmetik posted a great graph last week of Lieberman's plummeting approval ratings in 2006 by party. Joe's gone from 70% to under 50% in less than a year among Connecticut Democrats. But the overall numbers are sinking too. The trend does not bode well for Joe, either in August or in November.
- Even the National Review's election blog realizes Joe stepped in it big-time by fabricating a Lamont bumper sticker for a recent attack ad.
By the way, it continues to amaze me how interested the right-wing press is in this race. National Review, the Weekly Standard, the Washington Times... all have covered it recently. And usually without even mentioning the Republican candidate's name. Why? They have a dog in this race, but his name isn't Alan Schlesinger. - Update:
Larry JohnsonSusanUnPC at No Quarter thanks Bush and Lieberman for the mess in Iraq:Most reasonable Democrats, like me, have somewhat forgiven the senators who voted for the authorization to go to war, even though at the time it was plain as day that Bush was hellbent on war, no matter what, and they were idiots for not seeing that.... But Joe Lieberman is a different case: Lieberman carried, and continues to carry, water for George Bush, and that is morally and politically repugnant to us.
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The new player in this race is Hillary. She needs for Ned and his anti-war supporters to fail so her position in 08 is not weakened. Lanny Davis went after Ned without mercy this weekend on C-Span and you know who he wants in 06 & 08.
Please, Ned, come out swinging on the "No Joe" bumper sticker which in Rove-like fashion, Lieberman is trying to accuse you of creating.
Don't let Lieberman "swift boat" you, look at what happened with "turn the other cheek" Kerry.
Don't let Lieberman "swift boat" you, look at what happened with "turn the other cheek" Kerry.
I agree with Anonymous at 4:20pm. Ned needs to be a boxer, like Sugar Ray Leonard, or perhaps a wrestler, like Dan Gable. He needs to keep up the focus. I was crushed by Kerry's lack of backbone. He might have his reasons for his passivity after the last election - BUT I DON'T CARE. His lack of reaction placated the Bush people.
In case you're interested, there's a good response to David Brooks from Katrina vanden Huevel over at The Nation:
http://www.joementum.com/2006/07/10/just-another-joe-lieberman-fan/
http://www.joementum.com/2006/07/10/just-another-joe-lieberman-fan/
here's a clickable link if you're lazy :)
http://www.joementum.com/2006/07/10/just-another-joe-lieberman-fan/
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