According to Paul Bass in the New Haven Independent, local Connecticut residents (attn punditry class, read: not bloggers) are attempting to have Holy Joe "un-Democrated" now that he’s officially running as a candidate for the Kiss My Ring party:
A day after U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman declared himself a "devoted Democrat" on national TV, peace activists in his hometown of New Haven asked the local registrar of voters (Sharon Ferrucci, pictured) Monday afternoon to strip him of his party affiliation because of his third-party reelection bid against party-endorsed Ned Lamont.
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A day after U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman declared himself a "devoted Democrat" on national TV, peace activists in his hometown of New Haven asked the local registrar of voters (Sharon Ferrucci, pictured) Monday afternoon to strip him of his party affiliation because of his third-party reelection bid against party-endorsed Ned Lamont.
Of course, with no more evidence than he had for his allegations about hacking — which even he eventually admitted were entirely spurious — Dan Gerstein is now slinging around wild accusations that the Lamont campaign is behind these efforts. He also claims to have seen Bigfoot in the light of the full moon early last week. The New York Times has assigned three journalists to follow up on the story.
And Gerstein has now taken to trailing Ned Lamont around to his public events like a piece of dirty toilet paper that just won’t come off your shoe. According to the Connecticut Post:
Dan Gerstein, the senator’s communications director, and Tom Swan, Lamont’s campaign manager, exchanged angry words in the state Capitol parking lot before Lamont’s brief news conference. Gerstein charged that the Lamont campaign is supporting the New Haven party challenge; Swan denied it.
Rumors that Swan asked Gerstein if the truth was ever going to make it into any of his press releases could not be confirmed.
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NED!!!1!
Fitz me baby, and TO THE HAGUE!!!
Fitz
Hey Jane, I hope you read the great poll news prior thread about Ned. It sounds like a repeat of the primary, the more people get to know Ned, the less they like Joe. IIRC, Rasmussen had Ned two points down, but as *ilson pointed out, Rasmussen tend to be conservative, it sounds like a dead heat.
These latest numbers will make it a lot tougher for Joe to raise money imo.
he’s no donkey, but he is a jackass.
I wonder if the FBI is still investigating the “hacker” charges. The Lieberman camp was unequivocal in accusing the Lamont people of doing it, iirc. They sure as fuck made a lot of PR hay out of it on election day, with the help of gullible traditional media types.
Swan might want to bring along a friend with a video camera . . . Sounds like Gerstein might might prove to be the star in the sequel to George Allen’s recent movie.
And if someone does get some video of DG in action, I’m guessing that folks around here would break out the popcorn, big time!
They are trying to build on the Lamont-as-saboteur-of-the-democratic-process bullshit that they started with the “hack” story. Rovian, eh?
I would love to see some footage of this Gerstein guy trying to follow around the Lamont team and generally acting like the jerk that he apparently is.
Spazeboy, CT Bob – are you out there?
Words of wisdom for Ned and Co., with Gerstein making himself a constant fixture . . .
Don’t feed the troll!
By all means, document his a-troll-cious behavior, tsk-tsk about it to the media, or just smile and walk away – but whatever you do, don’t feed the thing.
EPU’d from last thread..
Old Sow @ 163
Lieberman has been downgraded from jackass to dildo-monger.
-GSD
You can almost smell the defeat on this three time loser.
Great post, Jane! Now that’s what I call a velvet hammer!
Alas, CTBob is on a sailing vacation this week, and Spaze is starting back to college next week. I’ll be sure to clue Bob in as soon as he gets home.
Every time these asshats talk about the “hijacking” of the party by the radical left, they need to be reminded that, until recently, representative politics was not considered radical. The boat anchor that we then hang around their necks should be something like “the corporatist/Bush enabler/Incumbocrat” wing of the party.
And no, Rahm cannot be the bearer of this message.
BUSH: “The strategy is to help the Iraqi people achieve their objectives and their dreams, which is a democratic society.”
So now the it is up to the United States to expend blood and treasure to help other nations fulfill their dreams?
Christ, I have listened to that fat pill junkie Limp-baugh lamenting liberal “do-gooders” for 15 years.
Now we have conservative “dream makers”.
Stop the bus, everyone is nuts.
-GSD
tommy yum @ 6
Good question. Anyone know who to call on this?
John Casper @ 4
This poll has a margin of error of /- 4% or so. Statistically it’s a tie.
What has to be concerning Lieberman and his staff are these things.
(1) The trend is against Lieberman. The snap poll right after the primary showed Liberman 5 points up on the spread.
(2) The Rasmussen poll is known to be generally biased in favor of right candidates. This is probably due to their polling methodology and likely-voter models.
(3) The race lies in the uncommitted voters. The current survey shows 11% undecided (same MOE, /- 4%). Undecideds usually break for the challenger, and Lamont is clearly the challenger in this race.
(4) Schlesinger is a non-entity right now, but his refusal to withdraw from the race has to concern Lieberman and his people. It’s not too plausible that a Schlesinger voter would opt for Lamont on Schlesinger’s withdrawal. Schlesinger could pull enough support to throw the race to Lamont.
Bottom line: Right now, it’s a tight race, but the outlook for Lieberman has to be troubling.
BC
Democrats SUPPORTING other Democrats ???
FUCKING OUTRAGOUS
maybe loserman can understand the disadvantage of being A PARTY OF ONE now
hey JOEZOE, Democrats support other Democrats
that’s how we know you ain’t no DEMOCRAT
you stupid fucking dolt
Great picture, but a little hard on poor Sharon Ferrucci, don’t ya think?
Joe is fast becoming nothing but a whiner and a complainer and a blamer of everyone but himself for the situation he is in with CT voters.
At his next news opportunity I fully expect to hear him say “but maaaaaaaaaaaaaa, its ned’s fault no one likes me anymore, not mine”
OT but VERY interesting: the last posting on the bad-ad went as follows:
Massachusetts’ Lt. Gov., Republican Kerry Healey (”The Empty Dress”), campaigning to succeed The Mittwit (Romney) is running an almost identical ad as her introductory buy. Put herself thru college, parents struggled, military family, etc., etc., etc.
Someone more skilled than I could certainly find out who dunnit: could be VERY interesting info for old Zack, and, of course, his boss.
“He also claims to have seen Bigfoot in the light of the full moon early last week. The New York Times has assigned three journalists to follow up on the story.”
It was me. I just needed a wax.
GSD @ 12
almost ???
joezoe shed 9% in a WEEK
I can smell the fear from 3000 miles away
and all of my life’s experience tells me that joezoe’s fear is well founded
3rd party traitors always LOSE
joezoe is doing slighly better than ross perot
and we all know that perot POLLED a lot better than he finished
bye bye joezoe
Agree with Peterr on both getting Gerstein on video, as well as not engaging him in the food fights he seems determined to start. One wonders whether he pushes Swan’s buttons in hope of being able to take whatever Tom says totally out of context.
The issue of Lieberman’s party affiliation is, in my opinion, something that should be properly addressed by the appropriate Connecticut officials. Based on what I have read, it’s possible that Joe may be framing himself as an “Independent Democrat” in order to make the argument to the Connecticut elections board that he has not abandoned the Democratic party, and therefore should not be stripped of his “D.” What sinks that argument, I think, is that he has formed an entity known as “Connecticut for Lieberman,” which is not affiliated in any way with the Democratic Party.
It’s clear to me that despite his lunge toward the GOP for cash and media exposure, what he really, really wants is for that general election ballot to say “Democrat” after his name, for all the reasons that have him willing and eager to do whatever it takes to win, no matter how many rules – written and unwritten – he has to break to do it.
I think that every chance the Lamont campaign has to speak about Lieberman, they should refer to him as “Connecticut for Lieberman Candidate Lieberman.” Calling him “my opponent,” “Joe,” or “Mr. Lieberman” don’t brand Joe as the whiney loser he is, and which Connecticut voters need to have embedded in their collective subconscious as they head toward the polls in November.
Imagine if dreams could come true and it was Gore who won in 2000 – Holy Joe would have been the VP. Either way we were due for trouble.
GSD @ 16
it the redux of bush 1’s “Thousand points of light”
instead of putting a candle in Dan Quayle’s head, we’re going for 1000 IEDs a day in the middle east
guess we should have been more specific about who’s dream we wanted to realize
Please tell me Judith Miller’s on the case. I’m sure she can find the truth of the matter.
SpaPeterr @ 7
Peterr — I think Spazeboy is almost always around, as it the official Lamont youtuber.
I’ve always assumed that Gerstein’s role was to provoke an angry confrontation, to drag the Lamont folks down into the gutter and tarnish the nice guy image Lamont has. The Ct. press knows this, I think but they’re not reporting it.
Peterr @ 10
is LAUGHING IN THEIR FACES considered “feeding” ???
cuz I can’t really help myself
I gotta laugh at these fools
Ned Lamont needs to have two staffers with video cameras at every public appearance — one to document the LieberBrownShirts going after Ned, the other to document the Dan Gerstein meltdowns.
Ah, lying and losing, losing and lying. Bad traits, both, and amazing how they feed each other, especially on such a self-righteous campaign as Lieberman’s.
Why is it the most sanctimonious who are always the quickest to lie their asses off?
Joe to the Democratic Party after Ned won: “Screw you, I’m an Independent now, and I’m running against you.”
Joe on learning of efforts to strip him of his party affliation. “How dare you! I’m a Democrat!”
Leo Rosten defines “chutzpah” as the man who murders his parents then thows himself at the mercy of the court because he’s an orphan. Joe, I think you’ve just re-defined chutzpah.
spoonful @ 26
My dream did come true and it was Gore who won in 2000 – but you’ll recall Bush Co. stole the election? As for JoeLie please don’t try to persuade me Mr. Gore would have ceded any power to him.
Are people taking stupid pills….the poll number for Bush (while still pathetic) keep getting better and better.
percy @ 33
Actually, Joe said “screw you” to the Democrats before the primary. One could argue, rather persuasively, that if HoJo had shown a little humility and criticized Bush back in July, instead of declaring his independent run, he probably would have won the primary.
Instead, HoJo behaved like a petulant child, and took his marbles and went home. Arrogant, whiney, out of touch loser — Joe Lieberman in a nutshell.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Opposition among Americans to the war in Iraq has reached a new high, with only about a third of respondents saying they favor it, according to a poll released Monday.
Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults polled say they favor the war in Iraq; 61 percent say they oppose it — the highest opposition noted in any CNN poll since the conflict began more than three years ago.
snip
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI…..index.html
Gotta luv that donkey’s kisser. A certain radiant ambiance of confidence do I detect? The donkey is a very valuable friend to us here in agriculture land. You see, we put them in our pastures to keep the coyote packs from harming our calves. And believe me… these donkey’s really do, do a heckuva job. We have several donkies in each of my family’s ranches from here to New Mexico. And of course, in keeping with the proper motif, all our animals are Democrats. And naturally, since we are Democratic ranchers, all our donkey team members earn a livable wage, have a good benefits package and are treated with respect, dignity and the compassion they are so richly entitled to.
Gleex, there were a battery of polls that came out last week that had Bush losing numbers.
LOSING NUMBERS, LOSING POINTS. THAT IS A REDUCTION IN POLL RATINGS, NOT AN INCREASE.
-GSD
In latest poll, Lieberman is up only by 2. Thats good progress:
http://americanresearchgroup.com/ctsenate/
Check out Ayatollah Khameini.
He is pissed and he is telling Muslims to “paralyze” the US if the Bush doesn’t stop acting like King of The World.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._0822.html
-GSD
He calls himself a Democrat, but he refuses to abide by the Democratic Primary results. Most of his campaign money now comes from Republicans, but he claims to vote “Democrat” 90% of the time, except when it comes to supporting the disaster known as Iraq. If more troops were needed and only the draft would solve the problem… how would Joe vote on that issue??!
Stoller@MYDD did an analysis factoring the splits by party affiliation, it looks even better that even.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/8/22/111212/953
Urban Pirate @
43
Just FYI, that was the estimable Chris Bowers.
Lieberman and his campaign crew just don’t get how angry and disgusted Connecticut Dems are with him. More so now that he has shown his true colors after his loss.
Every time he opens his mouth he loses more support. Pretty soon he’ll alienate all 100% of the Dems – and will have no one to blame but himself. And Independents are not impressed with his Rovian tactics. Folks in CT understand what is going on and they are insulted.)
Trabb’s boy @ 20
Dayum!!! I wanted to be the first to comment on that! Guess that’s the price I pay for being an at work lurker. OK, here’s my shot…
Sharon Ferrucci, great ass!!!
The funny thing is the DSCC no longer shows Sore Loserman as a Democrat but an Independent. (Nate commented about this in the Late Night thread.)
Looks like the DSCC agrees Joe’s no Democrat. How soon before they start accusing Ned of hacking the DSCC site?
Chris Bowers has a post that nails it — HoJo gets the boot –
Also, the best wording I’ve seen for Lieb’s affiliation is FIFTH PARTY CANDIDATE.
I think it would be worthwhile if we could make that the standard term – He’s not a dem, pug, green or ind.
Saying CT for Lieberman, while certainly driving home his egocentric tendencies, is a bit ungainly.
“Fifth party candidate Joe Lieberman”
“Lieberman – 5th party-CT”
I think it’s a great way to show that he is so unwanted he had to become a party of one.
I think the name of Lieberman’s party-of-one says it all. When Howard Dean ran for President, he ran as “Dean for America.” When Dean-inspired candidates run, they run as “Candidate X for City/State Y.” Lieberman’s party of “Connecticut for Lieberman” clarifies his world view very succinctly.
GSD @
16
Think about the numbers
Iraq has/had a population of about 26.78 million Source CIA
Median family unit numbers 6 – Source Iraqi Living Conditions Report Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation Bagdag Iraq
Amount spent on Iraq war = $300 Billion
Amount spent per Iraqi family = $67,000
That’s the cost. I challenge our Harvard MBA president to explain to me the benefit. (and maybe why we can’t spend a few nickels on our own population.)
Note also that the new talking point is ‘complete the mission’.
What was that I read on an aircraft carrier a few years ago? Was it mission accomplished.
Sounds like it has become mission impossible.
windje
Pachacutec @ 44
Thanks Pach.
“This detailerating stuff is hard work”
- President Urban Pirate
“I don’t do details”
- SecDef Urban Pirate
;)
Urban Pirate @ 49
Sure works for me Urban Pirate – thank you! ;~}
Sorry – can’t edit my entry at 45 but should be loses not looses
Jane,
Thanks for the update from on the ground. I’m in Texas, and I watched the pundits over the weekend assuring everyone that Lieberman was winning now. It made me ill.
This news that MSM reports of Ned’s demise are quite exaggerated leaves me feeling a lot better.
Somehow I suspect the cognitive dissonance of Lieberman running as an Independent against the legitimate Democratic nominee for the Senate while at the same time telling everyone he is still a Democrat will work against Lieberman.
Lieberman’s inability to run a Connecticut campaign should also show up. Firing all his campaign staff has to have hurt him. His appearance on Face the Nation was an effort to use his national face recognition, but I don’t see how it helped him at all in his state. Was this the advice his out-of-town hired-gun staff gave him?
With luck he will melt down completely in the next two-and-a-half months.
The history buff in me is reminded of how the French Barons independently fought against King Louis XI as the King was centralizing the French monarchy. Joe really sees himself as an independent Baron in the Senate, and has been surprised by the peasant uprising in the Barony he “ruled” in absentia.
Windje – Thats an excellent (although pathetic) analysis.
I’ve thought about it this way. Imagine if we actually stood up and invested a few billion helping the displaced after the Tsunami and the Pakistani earthquake. Say $20B. Imagine how far that would have gone towards “winning hearts and minds”. Imagine half that much.
How much did Chimpy offer at first to Indonesia? $10 Million if I remember, raised to $100 Million after everyone made a fuss.
I wonder if Joe could have the nickname “Baronof Connecticut” hung on him, and if it would work?
Just a thought.
OT ~ NOLA: I think Frenchmen have taken control of The General.
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com…..2766788190
Urban Pirate @ 56
My parents lived through the Nazi occupation in Holland. You don’t win hearts and minds with guns and bullets.
Old Sow:
Don’cha love how when negotiations haven’t succeeded, their response is to declare them a failure and push for war, but when war hasn’t succeeded, their response is “stay the course”?
Reveals a lot about their true motivations.
You’re no Democrat Mr. Lieberman, but you are an Ass.
gleex @
35
It’s just Gallup. Here’s an analysis by DHinCT from thenexthurrah, Small Terror Bounce for Bush
Urban Pirate @ 49
I like it, but if it catches on, Joe will probably argue that he’s a tied-for-third party candidate. *g*
There you go. Joe’s mission in a nutshell. On to Syria and Iran.
I have seen this type of problem in campaigns before, wherein the opposition wants to incite an incident, or even violence, to make their opponent look bad. The wise thing to do is to hire off-duty State troopers (since I know Lamont will be traveling through various local venues) who have arrest powers. When Gerstein (or his flunkies) attempt to do this again, they will be arrested. Bout time, I’d say.
Rick B @ 57
A Connecticut for Liebermaner in King George’s Court?
spoonful @ 26
Not necessarily. Remember, the level of influence Gore and Cheney have had as VP is quite an abberation. For most of them the office, in the immortal words of FDR VP John Nance Garner, wasn’t worth “a warm bucket of spit.” And relatively few go on to be president, either.
OT ~ Their lips say “TRUST US”…but their investments say “Try Europe”:
http://shelter.inkom.hr/index……p;Itemid=2
I kind of like, “Joseph Lieberman: Self-Party Candidate.”
Accurately describes his party of one, and the focus on “Just Joe.”
So, there’s also “Joe Lieberman: Just-Joe Candidate.”
I understand why the Lamont campaign wants to first say, “We are not behind the challenge to Joe’s party affiliation.”
But why can’t they follow with:
“But I do not think Senator Lieberman should consider himself above the laws of this State.”
Urban Pirate. If he’s the fifth party candidate, does he appear on the ballot in the fifth column???
I think we ought to get “Francis The Talking Mule” into this. bet he could tell Lieberworst a thing or two, i betcha……….
Here’s the link to the Connecticut statute.
http://americanresearchgroup.com/ctsenate/ supports the rasmussen poll qouted earlier. They show a 2% difference (JoeLie in the lead)with 11% saying they havent made a decision…looks good!!!
Joe is barren, not a baron.
-GSD
Rick B @ 55
the pundits been saying that joezoe was winning since January
the pundits have been consistent
consistently WRONG
so the MSM says that Loserman is aheard ???
WOO HOO
we’ve been here before
Lindy,
That makes it appear pretty cut-and-dried. Lieberman appears on the ballot in a race in which is not the Democratic Party nominee.
So long, Joe, and thanks for all the fish.
BC
Lieberman has to continue losing Democratic support in these polls. Once it is obvious that Democrats in Connecticut support Lemont, the race Definately becomes Democratic vs. Republican sponsored candidate. And all gloves should come off and Joe addressed as what he truly is: Joe Lieberman, Republican candidate for Senator from Connecticut.
Primordial Ooze @ 71
Honestly, I don’t know. My understanding is that he will appear after all the “major” parties, which I would take to include r,d,g,i, and maybe libertarian.
immanentize @ 70
Agreed. I think it’s important, whenever and wherever possible, to provide reminders of Joe’s failures to play by the rules. It serves to highlight yet another (disturbing) similarity between Joe and the Bush administration.
It seems to me that the only argument Joe can make is that “Connecticut for Lieberman” is not a “party or organization”, but merely a label designating the ballot line he will appear on. Pretty weak.
Steve Gilliard has a great post, with a breakdown of the ARG poll numbers.
The best news in this poll: Lieberman leads Lamont 48% to 38% among independent voters. That number will flip by election day, and HoJo will exit stage right as a pathetic object of ridicule.
Memo to Joe Leiberman — quit now, and preserve whatever is left of your dignity.
when the republican president endorses Lieberman
when dick Chaney himself endorses Lieberman
when shaw hannity endorses Lieberman
when rush Limburger endorses Lieberman
when the Republican party refuses to endorse the Republican candidate
is there ANY doubt Lieberman is a Republican stealing democrat resources?
is their ANY doubt he is in their pocket?
can you say cognitive dissonance?
Sorry, Urban, maybe I should link that…
Fifth Column
karen allen @
65
I hope someone from Ned’s campaign reads this sage advice. Ned needed some off-duty State Troopers when Goodstein and the Lieberyouth ambushed him in that diner before the primary.
Keep forgetting to ask these questions…we know Schlesinger is not a factor in this race. Is the Green Party candidate likely to siphon meaningful numbers of votes away from Lamont? Yes, I know – ANY votes siphoned from Lamont are meanigful, but do we know how that translates to numbers? Has there been any polling that includes the GP candidate?
lamont has closed the gap, it might be even
http://americanresearchgroup.com/ctsenate/
I think even is a stretch, but at least the gap is closer
Joe Lieberman meets the ghost of Jacob Javits.
-GSD
Bush authoritarian cultist hacks at Judicial Watch are playing Kevin Bacon trying to invent a conflict of interest between the ACLU and Judge Anna Diggs Taylor. Don’t be suckered into it — this is not an operable conflict of interest. This is just a bunch of faux conservatives trying to cast doubt on the propriety of a federal judge who happened to rule against Dear Leader.
This is Swift Boating pure and simple, but go decide for yourself using your own brain, not the media’s lack of one or “Judicial Watch” ’s dishonest one.
GSD @ 88
And the ghost of Jacob Javits is the Liberal . . .
Primordial Ooze @ 84
Aha! That is exactly where he should appear.
I edited the relevant parts Sec. 9-60 and Sec. 9-61, and give that below. The snips [] are where I took out all of the stuff with details like “or deputy registrar” and such, but tried not to change the essence of the statements from the CT law.
~~ Sec. 9-60. Discretionary erasure or exclusion from enrollment list for lack of good-faith party affiliation; citation and hearing. Whenever the registrar of voters of any political party, []is of the opinion that any person on the enrollment list, []is not [] in good faith a member of, that political party and does not intend to support its principles or candidates, such registrar [] shall cite such person to appear before him and [] to show cause why his name should not be erased or excluded from such enrollment list.
If, at any such hearing, it appears to such registrar []that such person is not affiliating with [] such political party and does not intend to support the principles or candidates of such party, his name may thereupon be erased or excluded from the enrollment list of such party.
Sec. 9-61. Prima facie evidence supporting discretionary erasure or exclusion. Enrollment in any other political party or organization, active affiliation with any other political party or organization, [] being a candidate for office under the designation of another party or organization, within a period of two years prior to the date of the notice as provided in section 9-60 shall be prima facie evidence that any elector committing any such act is not affiliated with, or in good faith a member of, and does not intend to support the principles or candidates of the party upon the enrollment list of which his name appears [] and, upon reasonable proof of the commission of any one of such acts, the name of any such elector may be stricken or excluded from such list and such erasure or exclusion shall be effective for a period of two years from the date of any such act. [].
Knowingly becoming a candidate for office on ticket of a new party automatically separates voter from his former party. 102 C. 607. Cited. 144 C. 1. ~~
FishGuyDave @
17
This thread is already closed, but I just got here. Anyhow, the Lieberman complaint was lodged with the Attorney General of CT, who just happened to be a Lieberman buddy and suporter by the name of Richard Blumenthal. Fat chance of any kind of thorough and impartial investigation happening. In fact, they may just be putting a lid on the investigation because nothing incriminating has come against anyone, much less Lamont’s team.
Lamont’s team should insist that Blumenthal recuse himself if he is following up, and also should insist on a full airing, as well as prosecuting any members of the Lieberman team who knowingly made false charges.
As for the FBI, they are only in it because of the possibility of a crime committed across state lines.
As far as who to call: the Attorney General’s Office of CT.
Hi Valley Girl… How’s yer terlit?
:-)
Dr. Bong- slow as ever. Turns out the trap I have to access is inside, behind the washer and dryer. Arggh.
Better yet, why doesn’t CT’s Independent Party raise a ruckus about Lieberman calling himself “independent”?
That’s false advertising! The Independents are running nobody. They should say this loud and clear. Besides, Lieberman is no independent, not if his roots are Democratic and his polestar Bush-Cheney. He’s what you call a turncoat.
His party is named “Connecticut for Lieberman.” He should strut under that vainglorious banner, not be allowed to try and peel voters off from two camps, Dems and Indies.
Let’s hope both political parties find ways to declare him what he is — a narcissistic parasite — and what he isn’t — a statesman.
VG at 92 –
As I read the laws, Lieberman would just have his Democratic affilliation stripped for his own voting purposes — that is, he could no longer vote in Democratic primaries or be registered as a “Democrat.” Not really a big deal at this point, BUT:
The political and media fallout would be huge — I am dreaming of the headline:
LIEBERMAN NOT A DEMOCRAT
Ruling by Registrar boots Joe from Party
Lou Costello @
58
Also the General has a link to a speech Darcy Burner gave. WOW! There were complaints last night about the first ad that ran for her campaign. If the next ad choses the right excerpts from this speech it will make up for the first one and then some. Darcy really nails it. she kicks some republican butt!
OT, but every summer there are donkey races in the Colorado Mountains.
Actually, they call them pack burro races, to honor the mining heritage. There are three races now, in Leadville, Fairplay, and Buena Vista. Years ago, there was one race, over the top of Mosquito Pass from Leadville to Fairplay in South Park. The two towns had a fight, and now each has their own race.
And yes, there really is a South Park in Colorado — although the locations on the TV show are a mix of South Park, the Jeffco Mountains, and the Jeffco suburbs. The South Park city hall is actually the Jefferson County Office Complex — commonly known as the Taj Mahal.
Valley Girl:
May the spirit of Lillian Baumbach be with you!
:-)
That’s an extremely nice picture there. Thanks for the PR.
orangejumpsuit @ 93
Rick B @
57
How about “Little Lord Lieberman”?
http://simonsays.com/assets/is…..869940.jpg
This is going to sound OT at first, but it isn’t. Promise. I just got a phone call (human, not robo) from the campaign of one of the candidates for our County Commission. Officially, it’s a non-partisan commission, but everyone knows that’s hooey, and everyone who bothers to follow the local news knows who the Republicans are and who the Democrats are. As it happens, I had received a glossy flyer from this particular candidate which said nothing about his party affiliation and nothing on the issues except nice-sounding, meaningless generalities. I honestly couldn’t tell from that flyer what party he belonged to. But just before the call, the candidate had an ad on CNN (undoubtedly bought through the cable affiliate.) That ad showed every prominent local Republican endorsing him. None of them were identified as Republicans, but I knew who they were. So when the nice young woman on the phone said she was calling to remind me that the candidate would be on the ballot in our upcoming primary election, I responded — equally nicely — that I had seen the TV commercial and I had seen who was endorsing her candidate and there was no way I would ever vote for him. She said thank you and hung up. By their endorsements shall ye know them. Now look at who’s endorsed Lieberman (Joe4Joe-Green Room). By their endorsements shall ye know them.
Margot:
How about “Little Lord Lieberman”?
Sounds like a job for Darkblack.
Anne @
25
Or, maybe just the “Lieberman for Lieberman candidate?” …since we don’t really want to imply that CT really is for Lieberman.
OT:
Michael Barone gives the game away:
Indeed…’Elite young men’ such as George W. Bush, Richard “Dick” Cheney, Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Richard Perle, John Bolton, Elliot Abrams, Tom DeLay, Dennis Hastert, Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm, Alan Keyes, Michael Ledeen, Tony Snow, Rush Limbaugh, Brit Hume, Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, Pat Robertson…
And Joe Lieberman.
;>)
OT ~ But really what thread would this go under?
Is Bret Baier the New “Jeff Gannon”? http://www.democrats.com/why-w…..bret-baier
Yesterday, Lieberman was erroneously and surprisingly listed at the CT Sec State web page as being on the November ballot as a “Democrat”.
I’m happy to say this mistake has been corrected, and he is now no longer listed at all:
link
DING DING DING DING DING!!!
I think we have a winner!
RE: Valley Girl @ 92…
~~ Sec. 9-60. Discretionary erasure or exclusion from enrollment list for lack of good-faith party affiliation; citation and hearing. Whenever the registrar of voters of any political party, [] is of the opinion that any person on the enrollment list, [] is not [] in good faith a member of, that political party and does not intend to support its principles or candidates, such registrar [] shall cite such person to appear before him and [] to show cause why his name should not be erased or excluded from such enrollment list.
So…doesn’t it follow that any “person on the enrollment list”, including the other Connecticut “Democrats” in office who have voiced their support for Not-A-Democrat Lieberman, and who have not given “their support” to the duly elected Democratic “candidate” Ned Lamont, also get their names taken off the Democratic “list”? These undemocratic Democrats clearly show a…”lack of good-faith party affiliation” and “do not intend to support its principles or candidates”.
This common-sense statute should be absorbed by the national Democratic Party who have some members who don’t seem to get the concept (yet).
I’m so tired of hearing reporters refer to Lieberman as a Democrat.They need to starting calling him what he is: an Independent. When Jeffords left the republicans they didn’t waste any time calling him an independent.
I heard Dan Gerstein saying he saw Goody Proctor dancing with the devil!