One thing about the Ned campaign that we don’t write about enough is how much fun it is to be involved. I kind of wish I had the same enthusiasm for the gubernatorial primary in MA, but I don’t. Oh well.

Mornin’ all.

I commend Newtown First Selectman Herb Rosenthal and the Democratic Town Committee for politely, but firmly, insisting that U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman participate in the Newtown Labor Day parade as what he is: the candidate who decisively lost the Connecticut Democratic primary in an historically high turnout of voters.

This is not merely a matter of protocol. Connecticut taxpayers paid for a statewide primary election.

Senator Lieberman’s opponent, businessman Ned Lamont, pledged to endorse the winner.

In one of the most graceless displays of any recent political campaign, Senator Lieberman not only refused to back the winner, but following his defeat, decreed that he will not allow the primary voters’ choice “to stand.”

Worse yet, Senator Lieberman, who engaged in exactly the same type of opportunistic gamesmanship by simultaneously running for vice president and his Senate seat in 2000, claims his decision to ignore the results of an election in which he chose to run is a matter of principle and a “higher calling.”

Mr. Rosenthal and Newtown’s Democrats have done the right thing; telling Senator Lieberman that in demanding an election do-over, the only “calling” he is following is the preservation of his own career.

David Atkins
SANDY HOOK

If anyone knows David Atkins or Sandy Hook, please tell them how much we appreciate their LTE and the GREATER DANBURY NEWS for publishing it.

Morning OS, cbl, and everyone else on the thread, who I forgot to mention.