Comments on: Lieberman4Lieberman Candidate Makes Poor Showing In Debate

By: DBL

DBL — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:22:42 +0000

I’m a Connecticut Republican and my wife is a Democrat. She and I will both be voting for Sen. Lieberman this year (this will be my first vote for a Democrat in a federal election since I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976). In fact, in my little town (which is majority Republican), I don’t know anyone who’s voting for Schlesinger. All of the Republicans and Independents that I know are voting for Lieberman as are a majority of the registered Democrats.

Truth is, 15% of the registered voters voted in the August primary and slightly over half of them voted for Lamont. In other words, Lamont got the votes of about 8% of the state’s registered voters. He hasn’t increased his support much beyond that. The Independents, in particular, who are close to a majority in the state, really do not give two hoots about whether or not Sen. Lieberman is “stepping on” the Democratic Party message. The Independents are non-partisan, and all Lamont has offered them is a partisan message.

To add icing to the cake, it seems like the only way the Democrats could possibly gain control of the Senate would be with Sen. Lieberman’s vote, which would make him the most powerful person in the Senate. Wouldn’t that be sublime!

By: suttree

suttree — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:17:51 +0000

Having spent all this time on Lieberman, why don’t you spend some time and focus on Democrats that can actually win and would help get us a majority? Ned isn’t the great candidate we’d hoped–in fact he’s turning up as a big-time loser. Now how about losing some of the fixation on Lieberman and spend some time on, say, Webb in Virginia or Ford in Tenn? Or beating deWine? Ned is toast, so how about some reality-based help for candidates who are actually strong enough to win? Deal with it. Ned 24×7 is useless AND boring.

By: jbl

jbl — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:15:54 +0000

“Finally. A Republican with the stones to tell Joe Lieberman to get off his damn lawn.”

Holy mackerel, that’s funny! Keep up the good work, Jane, Christy, T Rex, etc.

By: FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog » Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: First Debate - Lieberman Accuses Lamont of “Finger-Pointing”

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:15:54 +0000

[…] Jane Hamsher: Finally. A Republican with the stones to tell Joe Lieberman to get off his damn lawn. Lieberman thought he was going to look “bipartisan” standing in between Ned Lamont and Alan Schlessinger during the debate today but he just looked like a man without a country, crying because everyone was trying to steal his candy. While Joe was praising every Republican in sight (Jodi Rell, John McCain, Susan Collins — funny, no Democrats) […]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Schlesinger steals the show at Lieberman-Lamont debate?

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:53:23 +0000

By: dave

dave — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:41:40 +0000

To consistently win, Democrats need to win the rhetorical battle. Joe does not help us with this. He is far too fond of bashing other Dems, at best giving the Rep. bipartisan cover and at worse muddling the message so that “people don’t know what Democrats stand for.” If we are ever to advance a progressive agenda…
Joe must go!

By: The Strident Centrist»Blog Archive » Today’s Connecticut Senatorial Debate

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:17:42 +0000

[…] From Jane Hamsher’s report on the Connecticut Senatorial Debate today it seems that the heretofore largely invisible Alan Schlessinger, the official Republican candidate, took a fair amount of the wind out of the sails of the unofficial one, Joe Lieberman. […]

By: CatStaff

CatStaff — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:00:31 +0000

Words of wisdom for the Connecticut for Lieberman candidate, free of charge from Mr. Miyagi:

Man stand on left side of road, good
Man stand on right side of road, good
Man stand in middle of road, get squished

By: MS

MS — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:22:33 +0000

Lieberman is NOT a liberal regarding the issues that matter:
*did not help make affordable healtlh care a reality
*provides the ‘Democratic cover’ for Bush’s disasterous policies in Iraq
*does not want to leave Iraq
*did not work to make Medicare drugs bill safe for consumers (allowed the donut hole that now costs seniors thousands for drug costs after an initial payment)
*disparages other Democrats
*lost the Democratic primary and is now running against the winner of the primary

Lijoy Kurian @ 26

I don’t know why the liberals are so much against Lieberman. He is a liberal when it comes to most of the issues that matter. He may in favor of war and may be he is soft on Bush but only the dumb can agree on all the issues. Its just extending Bush’s policy of “If you are not with us, you are against us”. The liberals look more like the right wing conservatives when they cannot tolerate difference in opinion.

By: kirk murphy

kirk murphy — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:01:41 +0000

cbear @
106

Jane Hamsher @ 81

Christy Hardin Smith @
74

scarecrow at 72 — oh, no problem — that article needs a lot more discussion. Like Sembler and D’Amato and Rove, Perry’s assistance doesn’t come without some expectation of services down the line. You can bet on that.

Boy you know I could’ve happily lived through the rest of my day without thinking of Lieberman servicing Rove.

Thanks, Christy, for that special moment.

Lieberman servicing Rove?

Would the end result be Jomentum or Santorum? I always get the two mixed up.

sorry, sorry, sorry…

Santorum

in the Dan Savage sense….