how?

By making sure that social conservatives, who like Joe, can’t cross the lines to support Joe EITHER, because now Clinton is there.

That’s my take on it, it is a very very good thing.

Tessio: Tell Mike it was only business. I always liked him.

Tom: He understands that.

Given what Bill has written in his book — I suspect he is fairly locked into his position with regard to insurgent candidacies. Afterall, the Duffey-Dodd contention did lead to the election of Republican Weicker — though just a few years Later, I suspect Nixon would well have wished the anti-War Duffey had prevailed. Clinton is doing what he is doing because he has cautionary words that are part of his sense of political caution — and I suspect he reads 2006 as being similar to 1970. But there are major differences.

Forget the political theatre. Ned has momentum now, and he has to keep it going and headed in the “UP” direction for a few more weeks. The two critical things now are ID’ing the voters so as to allow for a great, targeted and accurate GOTV, and finding those nooks and cranies in CT where normally non-primary voters feel really motivated to turn out for NED. You need nine or ten more points to turn “being marginally ahead” into a whopping landslide victory. Forget the negative stuff (Joe will take care of that I suspect) — keep it fun and very positive. People need to believe voting for Ned is like taking a great bath after dirty hard physical labor.

The DLC is all about making the Democrats more conservative, both Clinton and Gore were founders, and Lieberman was chairman for 6 years.

I think the whole point of this club was to make the Democratic party into the waffling gutless wonders that they are, because if you look at the Wikipedia entry on the DLC:

“Still other critics believe the DLC has essentially become an influential corporate and right-wing implant in the Democratic party. Among the DLC’s leadership are individuals with impressive right-wing credentials, such as Marshall Wittmann, a senior fellow at the DLC and the former legislative director for the Christian Coalition, and Will Marshall, a cosigner of a letter issued by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) endorsing not only the Iraq War, but also an overall foreign policy similar to neoconservatism. Finally, detractors of the DLC note that the DLC receives funding from the right-wing Bradley Foundation as well as from oil companies, military contractors, and various Fortune 500 companies.”

Wikipedia

Howard Dean once described the DLC as being the “Republican wing of the Democratic Party” and the DLC has steadily refused to criticize the Iraq war. If you want proof, just note that Hillary Clinton won’t condemn the Iraq war either — **Just like Joe Lieberman**.

So there’s really no reason to wonder why Clinton will be there to support his DLC buddy — he’s just trying to keep the influence of the DLC strong. When you see that the aims and funding of the DLC is so similar to that of the Republican party, and that the Democratic Party leadership is composed mostly of members of the DLC (including John Kerry and John Edwards), you can see why the Democrats have been so spectacularly unable to do anything about the Republicans.

Dollar for dollar match…GO NED GO!!!
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Really appreciate your wonderful comments.

Sure hope Steve comes back.

I used to feel the same things Steve expressed today (and look at me now; you’ve unleashed a monster, eek)

Apologies to all for my part in today’s flame-out.
But it felt good to let off some steam *g*

Shall be chuckling a long long time over Barry cautioning Pach not to be timid!
NOW I know what *spew alert* means.
Thanks for “letting” me use yer shoulder Pach.