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Thursday, August 10, 2006

 

New Haven Register to Joe: "Get Out Of The Race"

Sen. Lieberman's hometown paper calls on him to exit gracefully in a devastating editorial this morning (read the whole thing):

Joe Lieberman should accept the results of his party's primary. He lost.

He should reconsider his bid to run as an independent candidate and get out of the race.

For an 18-year-incumbent who was the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential candidate, his margin of defeat to Ned Lamont, a political unknown until a few months ago, was significant. Lamont even carried Lieberman's home town of New Haven.

Lieberman says he is still a Democrat, but his campaign will divide the party that rejected him....

Somehow, the irony of a general election strategy that relies on Republican votes to win seems to have eluded a politician who touted his Democratic credentials during the campaign. It merely supports Lamont supporters' charge that Lieberman is a closet Republican.

By running as a third-party candidate, Lieberman has left himself open to the charge that he is not only a spoiler but that he cares more about himself than the party to which he still claims allegiance....

Lieberman has served the state with distinction during a long career as a state senator, attorney general and U.S. senator. He should withdraw now with grace, although we hope that his career in public service will continue, if not in the Senate, in another elected or appointed post.

Comments:
Islamofascists, you say.

Huh.

Maybe he does think the Democrats are wrong. Maybe he shouldn't have run in their primary, then.
 
New Haven Register a liberal paper? C'mon, you gotta be kidding me. The Register is known to be one of the most conservative papers in CT, endorsed Bush both times, and has stood solidly behind Lieberman.
 
so you say it's both a liberal newspaper and smart? I wish that were true.
 
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as well as...dumb republicans.

Yeah, we've noticed. Thanks for providing the example.
 
Spend a lot of time in terrorist hideouts, do you?
 
have you noticed the dumb democrats? You know, the ones whose quotes hang on the wall of the terrorists hidouts in iraq encouraging them....

No, too busy noticing the Republicans who started a war in Iraq they were warned was going to become Al Qaeda's most potent recruitment tool and be a total disaster to boot.

Guess what, energyanalyist, we were right. You, Joe and the rest of the Republican's were wrong. That makes you Osma bin Ladin's best friends.
 
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