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Thursday, August 17, 2006
Lieberman (R)
It's all but official.
From The Politicker (via TPM Cafe):
Will national Democrats just sit back and allow the NRSC and Lieberman (R) to kill any chances of winning any of the three GOP House seats in CT, and thus any chances of Democrats winning back the House, period?
From The Politicker (via TPM Cafe):
This morning, a source at the National Republican Senatorial Committee confirmed in a phone interview that the party will not help Schlesinger or any other potential Republican candidate in Connecticut, and it now favors a Lieberman victory in November.
"We did a poll and there is no way any Republican we put out there can win, so we are just going to leave that one alone," said the NRSC source.
Instead, the NRSC is pulling for Lieberman over Ned Lamont, who rode an anti-war message to a victory in the Aug 8 primary.
Will national Democrats just sit back and allow the NRSC and Lieberman (R) to kill any chances of winning any of the three GOP House seats in CT, and thus any chances of Democrats winning back the House, period?
posted by tparty at 12:28 PM 
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"Most Republicans would agree that he'd clearly be a better choice than Lamont," said the source."
The lack of state and national Republican Party support for Schlesinger is something that is going to come back and bite them. And it is not going to track in any of the typical polls.
There are solid old-school conservative Republicans who like Lieberman but are doing a simmering slow burn that their party has abandoned their candidate. These are people who will "voice support" for Lieberman right up to election day. And then vote for Schlesinger.
For Republicans, the unanswered question is always going to be how much they can really trust Lieberman.
The lack of state and national Republican Party support for Schlesinger is something that is going to come back and bite them. And it is not going to track in any of the typical polls.
There are solid old-school conservative Republicans who like Lieberman but are doing a simmering slow burn that their party has abandoned their candidate. These are people who will "voice support" for Lieberman right up to election day. And then vote for Schlesinger.
For Republicans, the unanswered question is always going to be how much they can really trust Lieberman.
It shows how extreme some of you Republicans have become when you can call a guy who has earned the money to become a millionaire (you know.. in that free enterprise capitalist system you have) as being "red".
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