Fitz! Ned! ROOTZ!

NED!!

gee! Ned! Fitz!

You go Jane!

I’m thinking that will be me with my hand raised asking questions at the rally.

Hopefully you’ll be allowed to attend.

First the whole Halliburton debacle, now this? Not that I’m complaining, but who the hell put Mr. Magoo in charge of Lieberman’s campaign?

but here’s the question, how many of the so-called journos covering the event will have bothered with this little bit of fact-checking. maybe you need to print up a handy little flyer to give any press people you run into the info on joe’s pac contributions. it would be delightful to watch the whole apperance backfire on him if all the coverage led off with a mention of joe biting the hand that feeds him.

kobe !

The photo of Ol’ Short Ride looks like Axel Rose in 20 years, minus the corn rows

Goodness, Shortride certainly seems to keep doing himself no good at every turn. And to that I can only say Bwahahahahahahaha!

e.c @ 7

Even better might be to simply print out the opensecrets.org page with the contributions from the Waltons to Joe. This makes it clear that this isn’t just something that someone on Ned’s side invented and shoved under a bunch of windshields.

It also might introduce some reporters to the notion of following campaign contributions . . .

that is hilarious about NAFTA/CAFTA Joe taking Walmart money in this election cycle. Unions have been working the anti-Walmart thing for a little while now — the LieberFolks must be politically tone-deaf to take Walmart money — it’s kinda like accepting Big-Tobacco-Corp cash these days…

I certainly hope a quickie flyer about Liebermans Walmart bigbucks donors gets printed up for the Rally !

Even better, ask if he’s going to return the contribution, since he’s appearing at the rally. That gives the press a potential ongoing story, which they could pick up and continue to ask about, rather than trying to get them to report the simple fact that he took the money.

Sharkbabe, I’ll add a big ole Mwahahahaha! to match your Bwahahahaaa!

Jane, and all in the Connecticut area, please take care today, heat advisories are out.
(Ohio too, for that matter)

I guess the Walmart folk have fallen out with Hillary — she’s gotten no cash from them this cycle.

Some great questions could be asked: “Does this mean you are returning the contributions you’ve received from the Walton family?” “How do you reconcile your appearance here with the contributions to your campaign from the Walton family?”

I hope the Lamont team is on high alert as Lieberman has to be reaching maximum levels of desperation – I sense that Lieberman will let nothing stand in the way of his return to the Senate, a position he seems to view as an entitlement instead of a privilege. I would be less concerned about campaign/voting tactics if Lieberman were desperate to serve the people of Connecticut, but this seems to be about Lieberman’s ego, which makes it more likely, in my opinion, for those tactics to border on – or cross the line of – illegal behavior.

This campaign contribution business might be an interesting thing to share with the union folks. Which unions have been active in trying to organize Walmart workers?

Have you seen this from the Hartford Courant?
Running Silent
It sounds like a Monty Python operation, “Run away, run away….”

Man have I mentioned I’m a calligrapher? I can make great posters, what I would give to be there right now with some art supplies… Go get ‘em Jane!

I really like Peterr’s idea of running off opensecrets.com facts to pass out.

Jane, looks like Pach’s new post went up ~ the same time as this one. Might need a fix.

As a follow-up to my comments on the last thread, I’ve got the full hour of “On Point” up at Spazeboy.net if anyone is interested in listening.

since jane obviously has a pretty good line to the lamont campaign, i hope she shared the info with them before she even posted it here.

Joe Lieberman: The Politics of Ho-Pimp

And concern trolls seeking coverage of Lebanon could simply divert to emptywheel’s latest:

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.c.....oliti.html

Others might prefer to concentrate on electing someone who can help bring peace instead of compounding wars. In which case, this post will do just fine, thanks.

Jane or anybody else “on the ground” —

Do you know whether nbc.30 did the story on that harebrained “Ned’s-a-racist” flyer either last night or this morning — ya know, the one that shoephone worked herself to a frazzle to spoonfeed them yesterday afternoon?

I would be less concerned about campaign/voting tactics if Lieberman were desperate to serve the people of Connecticut, but this seems to be about Lieberman’s ego, which makes it more likely, in my opinion, for those tactics to border on – or cross the line of – illegal behavior.

Speaking of the people of Connecticut, do the folks up there wonder what it would be like if HoJo had hired 4000 (or even 40) people to fan out into CT some time, say, in the last 12 years to find out what are the concerns of his constituents?

Just askin’ . . . .

“Police brutality”? Please.

They were verbally pushy, sure, and arguably out of line. But it’s a little ridiculous to call it “brutality”. The guy driving the kiss-mobile actually had nice things to say about the cops over at DailyKos.

*ilson46201 @
12

that is hilarious about NAFTA/CAFTA Joe taking Walmart money in this election cycle. Unions have been working the anti-Walmart thing for a little while now — the LieberFolks must be politically tone-deaf to take Walmart money — it’s kinda like accepting Big-Tobacco-Corp cash these days…

Joenertia took this back in, what, Jan. or Feb.? Back then he never dreamed that anyone would have the audacity to run against him so whatever he did was safe.

Not very good at forward thinking is he?

Shez @ 20

Man have I mentioned I’m a calligrapher? I can make great posters, what I would give to be there right now with some art supplies… Go get ‘em Jane!

I really like Peterr’s idea of running off opensecrets.com facts to pass out.

If the FDLers can help sponsor TRex’s trip to Connecticut, we sure as hell could defray the costs of poster board, permanent markers, and FED-EXing killer posters to CT.

You go Shez, and ask for support after the fact!

Get it done — get it done NOW!!!

Bearpaw, I haven’t read the Kos diary, do you have a link to it handy? spazeboy reported similar treatment by a cop after they threw him out of the Clinton/Lieberman rally last Monday.

capeman 19, love me some o’ dat link o’ yours!

“They don’t want anybody to know about it,” said George Jepsen, a former state Democratic party chairman and a Lamont supporter. “Because when Democrats understand he’s trying to have it both ways, they’re appropriately offended by this. Joe Lieberman owes his career to the Democratic party.”

Jepsen’s successor, Nancy DiNardo, supports Lieberman. Asked why she thought the Lieberman campaign was keeping the petition drive under wraps, she said, “I’m not aware of that. I haven’t discussed it with them.”

But it’s impossible to miss the aura of secrecy emanating from the Lieberman campaign these days. Like a dotty Victorian aunt stashed in a back room, the petition organization is kept under wraps lest it attract too much attention and scandalize proper Democrats.

Emphasis — between giggles and horselaughs — mine.

Spazeboy — thank you so much for the mp3 link! I am listening now (I get to hear it again later today on WNYC too!), the intro clips are playing now, and Joe sounds whiny and Ned sounds serious.

(Just tried the new spellcheck for the 1st time — how far out!)

Here’s an idea if Shez is interested. We just found out that you can upload a picture from your computer to your local Costco, and have prints up to 24″ done within an hour. I think it was just over $4.00 each for poster sized prints. Cheap advertising, huh?

timewarp, it just gets better!

LOL thanks ck! Got me thinkin’ cap on, and actually as of Late Night I’m trying to figure out if I can get to CT this weekend (complete with my portable catering kitchen), Siun is working on some options and is supposed to give us more details today. I’m raring to go in a heartbeat.

John Casper –

Matt Stoller has a good write up of the cop hassle at MyDD — Steve Gilliard reprinted the whole post, and it was really a no big deal. No brutality at all.

Matt was rattled, though — the cops tried to kick the kiss float out of the neighborhood, but a Lamont supporter let them park in their driveway. The pushy cops were foiled!!!

jane hamsher-

this is really interesting reporting you are doing from the connecticut campaign

i look forward to reading it each day.

thanks

Thanks -ck-.

Shez —

By all means, go to Connecticut!!!

But in the meantime, create some posters and Fed-Ex them to Jane — get them in circulation ASAP.

The Matt Stoller story of the kiss float and the cops has a long section on homemade signs, one of which was confiscated from a black child. Steve Gilliard says it could have gotten real ugly for the LieberThugs, and anything we can do to expose their inner ugliness is a good thing . . .

I haven’t read all the comments yet but that cop sure looks like David’s lover on Six Feet Under….

According to Josh MArshall and some of joe’s unnamed friends it’s the politics of embitterment for joe-nertia. The party failed to recognize his greatness back in 2004 so clearly the party doesn’t deserve his greatness.

Josh overlooks joe’s performance during the impeachment and his bending over for cheney during the debate.

oh snap, busted!

by the way

sara, at “the next hurrah” has the beginnings of a little history of the lamont family in american politics (”lamont, thomas and fdr”).

seems some of the lamont ancestors had practical political connections to the new deal.

this suggests that there is more than beginner’s luck operating in ned lamont’s favor.

Are the Joe folks keeping the petition drive so under wraps that it isn’t happening? Has anyone heard anything at all about sigs being gathered?

And is there a coordinated effort for out of state FDLers to work for Ned this weekend? or do we all go through the normal channels in Ned’s office?

Corrections on that suggestion to upload to Costco. It is $10 to have a 24″ print made. (My wife just got up and corrected me). Still, that is cheap, and Shez (or whoever) doesn’t have to be physically on site, just have someone run over to the nearest Costco where the files are uploaded to.

Sharpton Blasts Lieberman about racist flyers…

orionATL @ 44

by the way

sara, at “the next hurrah” has the beginnings of a little history of the lamont family in american politics (”lamont, thomas and the new deal”).

seems some of the lamont ancestors had practical political connections to the new deal.

this suggests that there is more than beginner’s luck operating in ned lamont’s favor.

Without hard evidence — flyers showing the opensecrets pages with the donations highlighted — Joe will deny the Walton donations and the press will let the issue die.

Best advice yet: get copies of the donation records to the rally, into the hands of the press covering it, with the question

“Will you give back the WalMart dough, Joe?”

The CT press corps has proven they need spoonfeeding — but that they respond positively to it, whether from Marion or from The Kiss Float.

“Will you give back the WalMart dough, Joe?”

is the moral equivalent of “have you stopped being beaten by your wife?” and should have a competent press corps salivating. It also feeds a larger narrative (campaign run aground) about RGJoe’s quest to retain his life peerage. Ink-stained wretches should go for that!

From the Stamford Advocate:

Colbert said Lieberman declined an invitation to appear for an interview.

Earlier in the day, during a campaign stop in Norwalk, the senator was asked about Lamont’s upcoming appearance.

“You can try too hard to be cool,” Lieberman said.

What in the world does Lieberman know about being cool?

Joe’s official campaign finance filings are public documents available at www.fec.gov — a photocopy of the particular page showing the $1000 from Wal-Pac (or whatever its called) would be damning and unassailable.

You know, I don’t want to rain on any parades here, but there’s still a week to go, and the entire dynamic of the campaign is completely different from what was expected.

Instead of a sleepy, low-turnout election where passionate Lamont folks turn out and Lieberman people stay home, allowing Ned to squeak by, we’re almost certainly looking at a higher than expected turnout. The evidence of the surge of registrations by unaffiliated voters is one indication. And Holy Joe’s Garden State Posse is also going to have a serious effect on turnout.

If I’d told you six weeks ago that there would be a high turnout, you’d have been concerned. Uninvolved voters have been flipping the lever for Joe for decades.

OTOH, I think Jane’s right when she said that there’s been a shift from anti-Lieberman (the Times endorsement didn’t have much to say about Ned) to pro-Lamont.

My point is that this race is now completely unpredictable. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it anywhere in the 55-45 range either way. Lieberman’s outside canvassers may turn out votes for Lamont. I’m trying to figure out a way to help, because this is now a crapshoot. (That’s a good thing, of course. A crapshoot is way better than a near-certain crushing defeat.)

I also think this may be for all the marbles. I would not be surprised to find that the price for all this support from DC was conditioned on his dropping the Indy run. Nor would I be surprised to see his numbers plummet after a loss.

One final, rambling note, Chris Bowers at myDD has pointed out that this is a lose-lose proposition for the blogosphere in terms of traditional media. If Ned wins, we’re loony lefties ripping the party in two. If Ned loses, we’re irrelevant loony lefties.

Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

When I make posters for rallies I take the original art and blow it up to cover 4 or 6 pages and print it out on my ink jet printer. Then I glue it on to a foam core board. Makes clean good looking signs and I don’t have to go to a copy shop.

I agree with Teddy that handing out printouts of the actual documented donations would be the way to go along with a good sign.

Do be careful of the heat wherever you go though! It’s a nasty day out there.

Here’s the proof that Rove’s helping the Lieberman campaign, although Gerstein seems to work for RGJoe except when he’s not working for RGJoe, which is pretty much when he’s working for RGJoe. Regardless of who paid Gerstein today, here’s what he said to TPM about the stupid country club membership:

Asked if he knew that the club was in fact “all-white,” Gerstein said: “No one’s proven to the contrary.”

That’s absolute Rovian. Unquestionably.

I have had the fuck enough, thank you!

Hey Jane…we are all behind you in spades. Keep up the great work.

RevDeb,
yh(comcast)m

Another poster idea would be those BIG fake checks as signs from Walmart paid to Short Ride.

You could put the opensecrets doco in the corner but BIG walmart check paid to H-Joe would be very effective.

I am downloading Holy Joe’s official FEC campaign finance report and in a little while I will give you the page number containing the damning contribution from WalMart — it’s a 13Meg file (400 pages)…

in the meanwhile, talk amongst yourselves, please …

jayackroyd @
52

Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

On the day he announced, I gave Phil Angelides a paperweight that used to sit on my dad’s desk when he worked for Pat Brown:

Noli Nothis Permetere Te Terrere

Illegitimus Non Carborandum.

Ohh Rev Deb, excellent idea! I’m PC graphics challenged though. But if our graphic artists could come up with a great poster and then partition it for enlargement and printing for the foam board that would be so cool to send the files to HQ. The documented donations page should be glued to the back of every poster too besides being handed out.

I can also see a Two-Faced Joe image, one side of his mouth bleating his bull about WalMart, the other face thanking WalMart and kissing them for their donations.

Wel - my buddy used to say illegitemus non-comprehendum

- don’t let the bastards understand you -

OT, but I have always been cheered by it.

“all-white country club”

the first time i saw that i thought my calendar must be off. i thought it was 2006, not 1956. unless ned was the membership president and was personally turning away “the black folk” i really can’t imagine this resonates with anyone (any one except the desperate leiberman folk who will latch onto any non-issue). as sharpton said in his remarks, real issues like the war are what voters are looking at.

morning mommybrain - new wig here.

Hi. I’m a frequent reader, infrequent commenter. I live just outside of Hartford and have room in my house for any out-of-staters looking for a place to crash this weekend. I’ll be spending the weekend doing whatever the West Hartford campaign office wants/needs. Anyone in need of a place to stay is welcome. You can email me at stallnine at gmail dot com.

Jane, Christy, FDL community, thanks for keeping me sane!

Morning, astralplame. Wot, no mustache? Que pasa?

I’m surprised he accepted the invite, too.

FDL readers might find the latest Frameshop post interesting:

Frameshop: Lamont and “The Kiss”

Let me know what you all think…

the mustaches, they are so, so itchy!

Steve Gilliard really slammed the insulting nature of RGJoe’s little race-bait flyer, as I expect Al Sharpton will do in what he characterizes to TPM as a “private conversation with Lieberman before he goes to Connecticut to campaign for Lamont tomorrow:

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.....d_to_smear

VERY good morning to you, astralplame! Nice handle.

[img]http://edbatista.typepad.com/edbatista/images/2005/02/Dr Evil.jpg[/img]
Lieberman: Lamont owns stock in Halliburton!
Number Two: “pssst….ummm, so do you”
Lieberman: wha…? oh. umm….Screw Walmart!!
Number Two: ummmmm…
Liebeman: what, did they give me money?!
Number Two: yup
Lieberman: SOMEONE THROW ME A FRICKIN’ BONE HERE!!!!

Redshift @
13

Even better, ask if he’s going to return the contribution, since he’s appearing at the rally. That gives the press a potential ongoing story…

OOooh, OOOH! Please do this, somebody.

Pretty, pretty please. It’s a perfect angle to wake up a somnolent journalist covering the event.

sorry, folks, the official Lieberman Report is too long and the contributors are not in any discernable order. It is scanned in so the results are not machine-searchable. Here is the 13Meg PDF if anybody else has the time and eyesight to search FEC Report

Well dang — I just stepped over to thet big ol’ honkin’ 13meg pdf and got THIS for my trouble:

I’m sorry….
Your Query can not be processed because:

Process Did Not Complete Succesfully!!

morning lotus! I am pretty pleased with myself over it -

It is a very interesting day on the boards - home today because I feel not-so-great, but the upside is getting to follow all the comments real time, rather than hurriedly skimming to catch up at the end of the day.

that “framing” article is pretty cool- I am interested to see its points applied in other races.

The spelling error is suspicious, no?

OK. Just finished listening to spazeboy’s mp3 of the Lamont Race on “On Point.”

Really well worth a listen. The callers were great. McJoan was superb. The DLC guy was lame. lame, lame. He just could not get off his Rovian “leftie bloggers are evil” meme.

What I wanted McJoan or someone to point out to him was that why shouldn’t bloggers have opionions and voice them. Why is it that so many Dems have fallen for the Coulterish idea that “lefties” are the only people in this country who should not be “allowed” to influence public policy? WTF is wrong with making an attempt to boot a public official, who does not represent your own views, out of office?

If I do not like the way my elected public officials represent me, then it is my responsibility, as a citizen of a democracy, to try to replace him or her with someone who is in alignment with my firm convictions.

Bustednuckles @ 60

Illegitimus Non Carborandum.

should be Illegitimi non carborundum.

(Latin scholar here, and proud of it.)

Excellent to have you with us in daylight, astral-thang, you!

*ilson - can you give directions to how you found it? I have time today to puzzle on it, but getting the same data error as lotus is.

Here’s something about the contributions:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pac.....expand=N03

Hope this helps…

lotus @ 76

The spelling error is suspicious, no?

ti sure is!

Thanks Amy! I duly noted your email addy, I’m working on the ole man as I type letting him know I want to get my butt to CT this weekend, he’s chuckling thinking I’m kidding. Au contraire!

Do you have yard space for a tent by any chance, to free up your room for someone that doesn’t like to rough it like I don’t mind doing? All I need is shower facilities.

(BTW, love the astralplame handle too!)

op99 @ 77

Bustednuckles @ 60

Illegitimus Non Carborandum.

should be Illegitimi non carborundum.

(Latin scholar here, and proud of it.)

Hell I was close! Not bad for a mechanic.
(it was off the top of my head and I was too lazy to google it) *G*.

Lieberman, Joe (D-CT)
2005-2006 PAC Contributions: $1,075,861
Based on data released by the FEC on Monday, July 10, 2006.

Wal-Mart Stores $1,000

http://www.opensecrets.org/pac.....expand=N03

The Wal-Mart Contribution to Joe Lieberman — official FEC document page — deny this, LieberLiars!

BINGO, COZUMEL!

specific line visible here:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pac.....p;expand=N

How’d you DO that, Coz???

Oh, and about that On Point show. One of the callers made an excellent point. which is that he has been pissed off at Lieberman since 2000! That he didn’t fight hard enough in Florida. One wonders when one sees the fire in Gore these days, how much Lieberman in a behind-the-scenes way sabotaged the effort to get the votes counted in FL.
After all, his very own Senate seat was safe and sound (though it is instructive to remember that had he become the VP, it would’ve been turned over to a Rethug by the CT governor), and he could’ve already have been fantasizing about running in 2004. Like, on a certain level, he was glad Gore lost, because it served his ambitious purposes. But then, 2004 didn’t work out like he hoped and he has been in a bad mood ever since.

fuck the secondhand info from opensecrets — I just posted the official US Government Federal Election Commission document page !

Bustednuckles @ 84

Hell I was close! Not bad for a mechanic.
(it was off the top of my head and I was too lazy to google it) *G*.

Believe me, mechanicking is a more useful skill!

lotus @ 88

How’d you DO that, Coz???

Um, maybe same way I did it at #81? Sigh. And *ilson46201 did it better anyway.

lotus @ 88

How’d you DO that, Coz???

Just google ‘open secrets’ and dig around ; )

Great job, research websters: FEC and opensecrets!

Now the ground game — these need to be in the hands of ALL the journalists covering the campaign, as well as those who show up tomorrow for the Wal-Dem rally.

Is siun here? This is really her area of expertise, perhaps those of you who found the great links could email them to her?

Isn’t the 21st century amazing? And all y’all are too!

Shez @ 83

Thanks Amy! I duly noted your email addy, I’m working on the ole man as I type letting him know I want to get my butt to CT this weekend, he’s chuckling thinking I’m kidding. Au contraire!

Do you have yard space for a tent by any chance, to free up your room for someone that doesn’t like to rough it like I don’t mind doing? All I need is shower facilities.

Yes, I have yardspace, an extra bed, couch, and futon. Only one bathroom but the shower works just fine!

Apologies, kristinejoy! That’s what thread-jitterbugging can do to me.

Here’s your finder’s fee, dollin’:

(((((HUG))))) & }}}}}KISS{{{{{

‘Ow you like dat smack, kj?

rock and roll *ilson!

mommybrain,

e-mail back at you ;-)

“Some of the rap music and other music is just the most violent, anti-woman, pro-drug stuff that I’ve ever heard. So three cheers for Wal-Mart,” says Lieberman. Metroactive

I’d just use the last part of that quote.

re astralpame @ 98

[singing]
Nobody does it better; makes me feel sad for the rest . . .

Way to go *ilson! I was trying to get my blog to load to get to fecinfo. Saved the official pic of the document you found.

Cool Amy, will let you know ok?

jayackroyd @ 52

You know, I don’t want to rain on any parades here, but there’s still a week to go, and the entire dynamic of the campaign is completely different from what was expected.

Instead of a sleepy, low-turnout election where passionate Lamont folks turn out and Lieberman people stay home, allowing Ned to squeak by, we’re almost certainly looking at a higher than expected turnout. The evidence of the surge of registrations by unaffiliated voters is one indication. And Holy Joe’s Garden State Posse is also going to have a serious effect on turnout.

If I’d told you six weeks ago that there would be a high turnout, you’d have been concerned. Uninvolved voters have been flipping the lever for Joe for decades.

OTOH, I think Jane’s right when she said that there’s been a shift from anti-Lieberman (the Times endorsement didn’t have much to say about Ned) to pro-Lamont.

My point is that this race is now completely unpredictable. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it anywhere in the 55-45 range either way. Lieberman’s outside canvassers may turn out votes for Lamont. I’m trying to figure out a way to help, because this is now a crapshoot. (That’s a good thing, of course. A crapshoot is way better than a near-certain crushing defeat.)

I also think this may be for all the marbles. I would not be surprised to find that the price for all this support from DC was conditioned on his dropping the Indy run. Nor would I be surprised to see his numbers plummet after a loss.

One final, rambling note, Chris Bowers at myDD has pointed out that this is a lose-lose proposition for the blogosphere in terms of traditional media. If Ned wins, we’re loony lefties ripping the party in two. If Ned loses, we’re irrelevant loony lefties.

Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

Who said doing the right thing was supposed to be easy?

Doing the right thing often has huge downside potential for the folks doig it. That’s why istakes character and courage.

*ilson46201 @
16

I guess the Walmart folk have fallen out with Hillary — she’s gotten no cash from them this cycle.

Yeah, but Hillary was on the *Board of Directors* of Walmart and Ole Man Sam himself once called her “my little lady” when she was Governor Clinton’s wife! Of course, she’s been running from all that and trying to bury it since she decided to run for the Senate and now the Presidency–gawd help us! Don’t trust her as far as I could throw her…

Here’s a screenshot complete with the Wal-Mart donation to Joe’s campaign:

http://homepage.mac.com/bengot.....rmart.tiff

I’m heading down to the Lieber-rally in Dayville, CT this afternoon. Perhaps someone will get close enough to ask?

-Ben from Pomfret

Ben — thats a secondary source — this is the actual Federal Election Commission page with the WalMart contribution to Friends of Lieberman, Joe’s official campaign committee.

Damn *ilson, You sure are full of piss and vinegar today!Flashing signs,Talkin’ russian,diggin’ through 400 page files. Good on ya!

Oh yeah, jumpin between two threads at breakneck speed, just ’cause he can. Woot!

LOL Busted, fun to multitask and feel the electricity in the air, eh?

digging my firefox tabs more than usual today!

Thanks, *ilson, for the clarification. “Friends of Joe Lieberman”? “Connecticut for Lieberman”? “Lieberman for Lieberman”? It’s all too much!

astralplame @ 109

digging my firefox tabs more than usual today!

Yep, got em strung out all the way across the bottom today.

Friends of Joe Lieberman is his official campaign committee while he is currently running as a Democrat. By the way, last night I bought the www.LieberDem.com domain — click it, you’ll enjoy !

timewarp 89

One of the callers made an excellent point. which is that he has been pissed off at Lieberman since 2000! That he didn’t fight hard enough in Florida.

Add to that this insight from Josh’s TPM about Joe and 2000, it’s an eye-opener:

Let me pick up the thread from another close-up Joe-watcher: “My guess. He watched Gore during the campaign and decided he could do better. He started thinking of the day he’d run on his own. This was first evidenced after the election when he sold Gore out on the soldiers vote issue. Here he’s on the ticket and he is pandering to the right to make himself look good. I think he decided that he wins even if Gore loses…”

So what we have here is a pol, running for veep who in his unbounded ego and hubris thinks he’s better than the no. 1 man on the ticket. So instead of fighting for the ticket and the party, he sabotages it, hoping he’ll be able to run as no. 1 in ‘04. What a backstabbing prick. But wait, it gets worse:

.. Then he runs in ‘04 and sees that his success in 2000 as a candidate was not really his but Gore’s. He was a great #2 but not a free standing great man. He was rejected. And he became bitter. Very bitter.

This explains a lot. Here is a selfish, double dealing, disloyal opportunist who thinks only of himself and then turns nasty when he finds out that is high opinion of himself is not shared by others.

This, in a nutshell is why he is so disliked, and why he must be defeated.

*ilson46201 @ 112

Friends of Joe Lieberman is his official campaign committee while he is currently running as a Democrat. By the way, last night I bought the www.LieberDem.com domain — click it, you’ll enjoy !

*ilson,

You are having way too much fun buying domain names. Hope you can find a use for them after the insurrection.

new thread.
Where In the World Is Joe Lieberman?

a domain name for one year costs $9.20 — I’m awaiting an offer from Lieberman to buy them for $25,000 or so (yes! I can be bribed!)

Morris Sheppard @ 114

timewarp 89

One of the callers made an excellent point. which is that he has been pissed off at Lieberman since 2000! That he didn’t fight hard enough in Florida.

Add to that this insight from Josh’s TPM about Joe and 2000, it’s an eye-opener:

[snip]

So what we have here is a pol, running for veep who in his unbounded ego and hubris thinks he’s better than the no. 1 man on the ticket. So instead of fighting for the ticket and the party, he sabotages it, hoping he’ll be able to run as no. 1 in ‘04. What a backstabbing prick. But wait, it gets worse:

.. Then he runs in ‘04 and sees that his success in 2000 as a candidate was not really his but Gore’s. He was a great #2 but not a free standing great man. He was rejected. And he became bitter. Very bitter.

This explains a lot. Here is a selfish, double dealing, disloyal opportunist who thinks only of himself and then turns nasty when he finds out that is high opinion of himself is not shared by others.

This, in a nutshell is why he is so disliked, and why he must be defeated.

Wow. Thanks for the head’s up. I just read the entire TMP post. If it sounds rotten and it looks rotten, well then it must be! And to think I was feeling like I was a bit out there in tin-foil hatland…

Okay, folks. I’m off to the Lieberfest in Dayville. I’m the one with the glasses and the Clinton/Gore ‘92 inaguration t-shirt. I’ll bring my camera and blog later tonight…

Bon voyage, Ben !

From TPM: “exploded sense of entitlement” re Loserman

Josh knows how to hit the nail right on the head

As some one who works with reporters, might I suggest a polite and short email directing them to the information about Walmart’s contributions to Joe tonight? It gives them a chance to gear up beforehand and they can be prepared.

“ilson, you’re so smart. i love the website.

The Lieber-rally in Dayville was really, really, really pathetic. Seriously. There were only, like, a half dozen Lieberman supporters there. There were more Lamont stickers in the parking lot than there were Lieberman stickers. Yech.

I can’t find my USB cable to upload pictures, but, when I do, I’ll let y’all know.

Ben (live from Eastern CT)

Jane, you’re doing a wonderful job. Thanks.

So did anyone ask him or his people about the walmart contribution?