Friday, July 28, 2006

More Mail from Democrats

With a little over a week and a half left to go, the mailers have slowed to a surprising trickle. My address hasn't rated a Lieberman mailer in weeks! Which means I only have one of his to share with you. The Lamont campaign, on the other hand, has been sending out a lot of mail.

The Mule

Let's start with Lieberman, like last time. Here's one from Sen. Lieberman attacking Ned Lamont for being a chameleon. You can, in fact, see the chameleon on most pages, as Lieberman accuses Lamont of changing his views. This line of attack has been a mainstay of the Lieberman campaign.

Lieberman attacks Lamont over his votes with Greenwich Republicans, his reluctance to release his tax returns, his contributions to Lieberman, and so on.

That is also one ugly chameleon.

Lieberman, on the other hand, is no chameleon. He is, and I'm not making this up, a stubborn mule. See? "Joe Lieberman is As Tough And Steady as a Mule," reads the caption. "Voters Always Know Where He Stands." There's also a picture of a mule, which is somewhat more attractive than the chameleon, at least.

One of Lieberman's biggest problems has been his refusal to move move away from his disastrous position on Iraq, and his support for the Administration. Consistency is nice, but mulish stubbornness really isn't.

Also, a mule is only half a donkey.

Any Women Out There?


Among the many Lamont mailers we've received were several directed at women. It attacks Lieberman's support for Catholic hospitals that didn't want to provide Plan B to rape victims. The first side features a woman sitting in a hospital gown (a rape victim, we presume) , and, weirdly, has a tiny George Bush and Joe Lieberman menacing her from the corner. The flip side is mostly a picture of a serious-looking female doctor--you know she's serious and smart because she is holding glasses, and resting them thoughtfully against her chin.

John DeStefano also sent out a mailer supporting women. Here a woman is working at her job, which apparently involves taking a rag to a whole bunch of tubes. Glad that ain't me.

DeStefano is using this ad to highlight his plan of establishing pay equity in Connecticut. The back features a list of women and family-friendly policies touted by DeStefano. There's also the black-and-white file photo of Rosa DeLauro. Couldn't she have provided a better picture?

Return of the Hallmark Mailer

The Lamont campaign put out this mailer, similar to the one that featured Lamont's mother.

Yeesh. The inside shows pictures of Lamont and his family. These sorts of character pieces seem to be getting more common.



Regional Interest

Finally, a mailer from the Malloy campaign! Here Malloy informs us that "Eastern Connecticut has been ignored for too long..." which is true. That's also why Eastern Connecticut leaders sent a letter to both Democratic candidates before the convention, practically begging them to put someone from east of the river on the ticket as their running mates. Both candidates picked people from affluent towns just to the west of Hartford, instead (Simsbury, West Hartford).

Malloy promises on the flip side to end this sort of practice when he's governor. Frankly, it'll be a miracle if anyone can get Route 11 or Route 6 finished, but at least he seems willing to try.

He also lists many prominent Democrats from Eastern Connecticut (including Richard Balducci, who was originally from Newington but is now apparently in Deep River) who support his candidacy.


Expect more of these to be posted (and mailed) as the primary day approaches.

17 comments:

ctblogger said...

"...a mule is only half a donkey."

Oh, you're good!

Anonymous said...

Hey, did you get a load of that enormous Schlesinger mailing? The postal workers are going to slip discs over that one.

ctkeith said...

Heres a report from The Kiss Float" which seems to be following the Lieberman Bus Tour (I kid you not)

Just back from Naugatuck, Seymour and Ansonia. Attendance at the last 2 was zero - Joe and Hadassah were left to waving at me and the float.

Anonymous said...

Steady as a mule? Not a chameleon?

Talk about the Big Lie. Joe Lieberman became a conservative, er..."moderate" when he decided to run to Weicker's right.

Did he support Sam Alito? Oh, yeah, that's right, he opposed him but let him go through without a fillibuster.

Steady as she goes!

Is this a year when he supports school vouchers or opposes them? He enacted a version of a voucher law when he was Senate Majority Leader (Rowland tried to fund it a few years ago), but then Joey abandoned it when he saw the chance to be V.P.

And who can ever forget his courageous stand on the Clarence Thomas nomination -- when he waited until the confirmation was in the bag before he came in and decided to vote no?

Is he for or against privatizing Social Security this year? I can't keep track of his changes on that one, so I'll assume he's taken whatever position he deems to be to his advantage.

I'll give him this, he's been steadily wrong in supporting Bush's war in Iraq and criticizing the war's opponents. He even supported Alberto Gonzalez, the legitimizer of torture.

Now, THAT's a steady guy.

Anonymous said...

Nothing like killing the unborn to get the libs in a lather. And beating up on the Catholics is icing on the cake!!!

Anonymous said...

Hopewellian,

I think your attacks on this part of Joe's record are on the money. But, it's ironic that the abbreviated name of your group is "NOW". Why all of a sudden NOW? Joe's positions haven't changed since 1988. NOW supported Gore-Lieberman. NOW backed Joe in 1994 and 2000 in the Senate races. Why NOW? After all, in 1988, NOW backed Weicker- they knew better that year. But that was then, this is NOW.

I give your group credit- many people on this list created and fed the monster they are trying to defeat. At least in 1988, you had purity. But you sacrificed your purity, knowing Joe's positions and record thereafter. Until NOW.

Maybe you can undo some of the damage that you have inflicted upon your cause.

If my memory is wrong on your past endorsements, I will gladly stand corrected and say that you were right all along.

If Joe wins the primary (which is like asking if Lincoln comes back to life), will NOW back him over Alan? Will NOW just withhold an endorsement?

ctkeith said...

If you're in New Haven Today Stop at BAR at 5PM. It's the Last stop on Liebermans Bus Tour.I promise you won't be disappointed.

GMR said...

This pay equity thing of DeStefano. It's crazy. How would it not involve government bureaucrats looking through all sorts of private salary data and then determining which employees are underpaid/overpaid? Does it apply if one company that has predominately women pays less than a separate company with predominately men? Would this firm with more women have to increase their pay for everyone, or just the women? How many state bureaucrats would need to review salary data? Would they compare companies in high cost areas with low cost areas?

Anonymous said...

Keith...bring the KIss float and ask the Joementum folks to change the name of his tour to " Joe's buss tour"

Anonymous said...

What's more fun ..getting your front teeth extracted or seeing Joementum on his buss tour?

Anonymous said...

Whoa, whoa, slow down GMR -- you're applying logic. This is about pandering.

Take it easy, Big Fella.

It's not like DeStefano really thought about it. That's a real buzz kill for progressives, man.

See what happened when you tried it?

Just chill. Cruise on into Willington, dude, and catch the wave.

Anonymous said...


"...a mule is only half a donkey."


The bottom half, of course.

Which makes Lieberman an ass's ass.

Anonymous said...

Hopewellian,

I do stand corrected on, based on your word. I remain uncorrected on what we don't remember.

I would be shocked if NOW (and I do know what NOW stands for, but thanks for being so patronizing) did not endorse Joe in 2000 as part of the Gore-Lieberman ticket over the pro-life Bush-Cheney ticket. What would the PAC be for if not that?

In so doing, NOW's endorsement helped to nearly place Joey Rape Remarks in a nice office in the EOB, nearly put him a heartbeat from the Vice-Presidency, nearly made him a putative 2008 Presidential nominee (if the ticket had carried.) That is, unless NOW concedes that is has little political impact.

GMR said...

Lieberman is really running an inept campaign. I guess since he had only token opposition in the last few elections, his people aren't very good at running campaigns.

The bottom-of-the-class political science major at the worst college in the country could tell you that a good strategy doesn't have you calling your opponent a closet Republican and a leftist simultaneously, and could also tell you not to use a mule as your image when people are saying you aren't a true Democrat.

He seems to have made this image of now allowing regular folks to his campaign events.

Anonymous said...

I don't think the mailer attacked Malloy's record on crime. What it did attack was his often openly hostile relationship with his police union - who haven't endorsed him - which puts the public safety of all citizens in Stamford at risk. If you don't think that's fair game, then your head is in the clouds.

Authentic Connecticut Republican said...

HealthcareNOW said...
And seriously, calling New Haven "a dangerous city" is not a smart strategy.


Why not, it's the truth.


A majority of people in this state knows about the turnaround New Haven has made over the past decade.

Let's see now...the Ikea store and.............?


To say something like that is incredibly hurtful to people in greater New Haven

Hows this?
Let's bulldoze the whole place into the sea and be done with it once and for all.

Give us a break; Connecticut's a fine state save for the stuffed shirts of lower Fairfield County and New Haven.

No idea what's going on in Bridgeport but it's pretty positive and it's clear they're going somewhere.

The only place New Haven's going is down a road paved with good intentions and we all know the only place that can lead to don't we?

Anonymous said...

Speaking as a nearly lifelong "greater new havenite", not only do we not identify with New Haven, but the consensus has long been that New Haven is not safe nor especially desirable. There is a reason that people who work in New Haven and have a choice in the matter live and send their kids to school in Branford, Hamden, Cheshire, and so on. The city continues to struggle because nobody thinks of going into New Haven except for the neighborhood around Yale

There are still some great places to live in New Haven (Westville, hee hee, East Rock- and yes, increasingly downtown.) But most people send their kids to private school. This means that they are willing to pay NH taxes and pay extra for education. Frankly, I wish I could move back.

I think JDS is a competent mayor. He certainly had a string of dreadful predecessors. But as Ross Perot once said (and this time he was wrong, but this may be the right application)- just because you can run the corner grocery store doesn't mean you should extrapolate that into thinking you should run Wal-Mart!