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!

I bring it up cuz we don’t want Joe’s lawyer pleading him out on a nutso defense when his time comes in front of one of those tribunal thingies.

Ned and Al tag teaming Joe…..

How’s that for bi-partisanship, YOU BASTARD!

P.S. Saw the snippet of Ned’s closing speech. It melted even my hard heart. I’m a little verklempt here.

No arguments with everything you said here, but perhaps you should drop the “Miss” part as an insult?

I get your intent, but I think it misses here. If I really thought it was sexist, I would complain, too. I think the ‘diva’ part is the crux of the insult, not the ‘Miss’. I think ‘Miss’ is only here as it goes with the gender specific ‘diva’. I’m a woman and I’m not insulted because I’m not a diva.

It makes perfect sense that Alan would tag-team with Ned to put Ned in office. He volunteered to do a thankless job for the Republican Party, to be the sacrificial goat running against Lieberman. When Lieberman exited Schlesinger had every expectation of suddenly being a viable candidate, not having his party yank the chair out from under him and use it to prop up the guy he was supposed to be running against.

Alan does indeed have nothing to lose; he’s not a bigshot No self-respecting bigshot would have entered expecting to face Joe in the general election. He had no expectation of seeing a Republican CT senator anyway, so it probably seems perfectly fair to him to twist the knife on the people who stabbed him first. I would expect him to do everything in his power to get Ned elected — which we are seeing is quite a lot — and to laugh out loud and slap Ned on the back when they succeed.

And in all honesty if it was Alan vs. Joe, after what we’ve seen of both men, I’d probably vote for Alan despite the (R). He might be crazy but he’d at least be fun to have around.