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, July 15, 2006
Saturday Morning Round-Up
- The campaign is going on the air with a terrific and clever new radio ad (mp3):
Joe Lieberman is safe for lobbyists, Big Oil and friendly dinner conversations with Republicans. He may be combined with Fox News.
Avoid high levels of Joe Lieberman for extended periods, not to exceed an incumbency of 18 years. - Connecticut Local Politics has images of Lieberman's new attack mailers. Here are couple of pages:
One mailer claims Ned is spending "over $100 million" of his "personal wealth" on TV ads. A flat-out lie. In fact, Lieberman - who has already spent $5 million on this campaign, and will definitely spend millions more than Lamont in total - will likely outspend Lamont at least 2 to 1 on ads. And he'll likely outspend Lamont by an even greater margin on attack mailers such as these, which can unfortunately be effective with Sean Smith's favorite demographic, "low-information voters." As for the Rovian Halliburton charge, see this post from yesterday. - David Lightman digs into the issue of Sen. Lieberman's (Lieberman-CT) party loyalty in the Courant. You'd think the following paragraph would answer any questions about that:
And just this week the senator launched his own political party so he can still run in November even if Democratic voters rebuff him in the Aug. 8 primary.
- From a hilarious new parody Lieberman blog, here's a reminder of Joe's (real) position on Rumsfeld from 2004:
"We're in the middle of a war - you wouldn't want to have the secretary of defense change unless there's really good reason for it and I don't see any good reason at this time," Lieberman said.
You can read the rest of the article to see other Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Charles Rangel, and John Kerry call for Rumsfeld's resignation. How could they have demanded that such a great man resign? Despite such extremist rhetoric from those far left voices, Donald Rumsfeld is still Secretary of Defense to this very day. We couldn't have made all that progress in Iraq over the last two years without him! - More YouTube funny: Anything Joes.
posted by tparty at 9:01 AM 
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Geesh.. I think we have a pot calling the kettle black situation... Joe is saying Ned will side with republicans? No, that's not a good situation because there is no "black" on Ned's part, it's more like the pot calling the grass black...! OUTRAGEOUS! Also, I'd rather have Ned buying his own ads, than Big Pharmeseudical buying Joes.. Besides, it's MoveOn, DFA, and the grass roots folks that make the Lamont campaign work!
# posted by 
at 9:59 AM
at 9:59 AM
I trust the Republicans in Greenwich more than I trust the Republicans in Washington.
# posted by at 11:39 AM
at 11:39 AM
The text isn't clear in the first photo--could you please take a better snapshot, if possible, or put in the text verbatim? Also, flip them over--whatever, so we can see who mailed them out.
TIA
TIA
# posted by at 12:30 PM
at 12:30 PM
It's the mirror rovian tactic.
Attack your opponent with your own weakness. It's an attempt to innoculate Lieberman from the legitimate charge that he's a neocon enabler.
Of course, it helps if you have the mindset of an 8 year old playground bully as well.
Attack your opponent with your own weakness. It's an attempt to innoculate Lieberman from the legitimate charge that he's a neocon enabler.
Of course, it helps if you have the mindset of an 8 year old playground bully as well.
"Connecticut for Lieberman."
That shows the whole problem right there. It's not surprising that its not called "Lieberman for Connecticut." It reflects his attitude:
"Ask not what I can do for Connecticut - ask what Connecticut can do for me."
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That shows the whole problem right there. It's not surprising that its not called "Lieberman for Connecticut." It reflects his attitude:
"Ask not what I can do for Connecticut - ask what Connecticut can do for me."
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