This morning, Representative Nancy Johnson (R-5th) became the latest member of Connecticut's GOP elite to take a shot at Senate candidate Alan Schlesinger's collapsing campaign. The article, which appears in the NewsTimesLive, is posted here.
Representative Johnson now joins Governor Jodi Rell, GOP State Party Chairman George Gallo, and Representative Christopher Shays in calling into question the Schlesinger campaign's viability. Adding to the insult of the GOP hierarchy's apparent lack of faith in Mr. Schlesinger's ability to win in November (or even continue on for that matter), Representative Johnson had very kind words for Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman (without going so far to endorse him).
The question becomes, other than Mr. Schlesinger, who is this Republican love affair with Senator Lieberman hurting most? According to FoxNews, the answer is the Democrat Party. But doesn't this hurt the GOP as well? While Senator Lieberman should be commended (and not discarded) for his bipartisan politics, he does not really represent the overall ideals of the typical Republican. This race just keeps getting more interesting by the hour. . .
Sources (UPDATED)
NewsTimesLive, Nancy Johnson Praises Lieberman, Challenger Has Some ‘Soul Searching’ To Do, by Fred Lucas (site last visited July 24, 2006)
FoxNews, Democrats Lose If Lieberman Is Defeated Party, by Peter Brown (site last visited July 24, 2006)
15 comments:
I think True Gentleman,Fox News and the DLC just all crapped their pants together.
ITS THE WAR,STUPID and there ain't anybody with an R after their name thats safe.
Lamonts going to Lead the Democratic Party in Ct to a sweep and anyone with a nose for politics knows it.
bluecoat said..." ..
including no bench ..
Johnny did little (nothing) to build the party.
He didn't trot around with local candidates and eat his ziti like a good politico in CT is supposed to.
Rob Simmons eats his ziti; Nancy's pretty sick of ziti but shows up anyway; sometimes she drags poor Ted along too. (probably the only way he can see her when she's in CT is to go with her someplace)
It's important for those in office to use whatever "wow" attraction they might have to enable and empower those in the trenches....and to eat their ziti damit!
Witness Bill Clinton today in Waterbury; he'll probably have some ziti......
Bill knows how important it is to show up with and for your friends; Jodi gets it and she'll eat her ziti too...it was just Johnny that didn't comprehend the whole thing and thus left us with a weak bench.
Rep. Johnson and Rell are showing why there is absolutely no bench in state Republican politics. They blast the Schlesinger campaign and have absolute no alternative candidate. How does that make any sense? Plus, what did they say about Schlesinger at the convention?
MikeCT said... "
even pretending to support the Republican nominee anymore. Why bother when there's already one in office?
Joe's no Republican.
That said he was one heck of an AG here and he's no jerk either.
MikeCT:
You said: "Neither she nor Shays is even pretending to support the Republican nominee anymore. Why bother when there's already one in office?"
I firmly disagree with your statement that Sen. Lieberman is a Republican. His voting record shows he is anything but; he opposed the ban on partial birth abortion, opposed drilling in Anwar, opposed the Bush tax cuts, just to name a few very basic conservative issues. He is liberal by any objective analysis.
"Democrat" is a noun.
"Democratic" is an adjective.
Persons who use "Democrat" as an adjective--i.e. "Democrat Party"--expose not only their own imperfect grasp of English but their slavish adherence to Fox News and RNC talking points.
bluecoat - I wasn't going easy on a contributor - I wasn't home! Anyway, I do tend to email contributors about things rather than going to the comment board. That said, I do have a bug up my ass about linking, I don't know why, but I'm sure I will figure it out on a psychiatrist's couch one day...
I'm with anonymous above. The name is the Democratic Party because of (1) grammer and (2) parties get to name themselves, they don't get named by Fox News.
Finally, I saw this on another thread (color me OT), but decided to address it here because the other thread scrolled away:
Continuing to make the unfavorable comparison between the Democrats today ("they have no plan!") and the GOP's Contract On - er With America ("they had a great plan for change!") reveals a basic lack of grasp of history and a laziness with regard to search engines. Two seconds with Google and you would find that the Contract With America was not released until 6 weeks before the election (AKA not in July).
ACR - Maybe I should be a politician, because I could eat Ziti every day for the rest of my life!
Gabe said... "
Maybe I should be a politician, because I could eat Ziti every day for the rest of my life!
You could be both enormously popular and enormous at the same time!
Brassett,
FYI,Joe Lieberman wasn't at the 2005 JJB dinner either.His excuse was he was at a Fundraiser in NEW Jersey if you can believe it.
I passed out almost 300 "Kiss Buttons" to people at the entrance inclding a dozen to John Edwards who was the Keynote Speaker.He laughed so hard he almost pissed himself when he saw my buttons and the sign I was holding with Liebermans infamous Quote
"Bottom Line,I think Bush got it right"
I knew that night in 2005 Lieberman had very few freinds in the Ct Democratic Party and would be beat if anyone primaried him.
Hell,Half the people there thanked Professor John Orman for throwing his name in the ring,lol.
Timmy Upson made a career out of ziti dinners...needless to say he was a larger political force as time went on
TG - Give yourself as much credit as I give you! I don't think you made a grammitical mistake when you typed "Democrat Party". And "b/c" is perfectly acceptable shorthand.
Let it begin in CT, a true bellwether state. Let it spread nationally. Citizens are tired of do nothing politicians who spend most of their time justifying their inaction and collecting their hefty paychecks.
No more petrified incumbents!
bluecoat said... "
there should have been a strong GOP candidate for US Senator "
Have to have someone with a high profile in office which after the last courtesy of Johnny bloodbath we don't.
Further, we're broke - Rowland took all the oxygen out of the room.
Jodi's response to the mess Rowland got the GOP into you has worked wonders on her image and ratings but has seriously crippled fund raising.
I'm betting (Alan Gold's giving me really good odds too!) that the voters respond to Jodi's fund raising and the lack thereof from the usual suspects and we pick up a few CT house seats as well as a senate seat or two.
Regardless of who wins the Dem primary the campaign from Rell will be the same, to list the donors of the other candidate.
Voters can figure out who's being bought and paid for and who's not and will respond accordingly.
By 2008 we'll be flush with cash and will probably steamroll.
Ned's Liberal Army continues to Roll They continue to spew the lies and deceit so General Ned and his army led by Tom Swan and Keith Crane and the other self righetous Liberals can destroy The Democratic Party in the State of Connecticut I hope you are all proud of yourselves and how this campaign has destroyed this Democratic Party and any chances we have to elect A Democratic Governor by causing all the focus to be on a pretty boy from Greenwich.
Next will see Tom Swan and Keith Crane Run for DSCC and screw that up as well.
The Left Wing in Action What a sad day for Connecticut.
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