But like the proud history of so many Democrats before him, Joe Lieberman believed in a strong national defense.
And for that, he was purged from his Party.
I have three major problems with this:
1. First of all, mind your own business. You don't see Democrats moaning and complaining about what conservatives are attempting to do to Chafee in his primary in Rhode Island. They are attempting to take out a respected thorn in their side and replace him with someone whose backers want to shrink the government until democracy can be strangled in a bathtub, or eliminate the Department of Education, or whatever the Club for Growth is up to these days. Ken, before you start giving unsolicited lectures on Democratic primaries, you might want to spend a moment getting your own house in order.
2. Words have meanings. When talking about governments, purging has a very specific meaning. No one here was persecuted, no one sent to the firing squad, no one was forcibly resettled, and no one will be sent to a gulag (although the rest of Sean Smith's career may feel like one). And no one got an ice axe in the head.
Instead, we had an election. And one guy lost.
Ken, as the head of a political party, you might recognize elections as events that we have every year to decide who gets to represent us in office. Yesterday, we decided. So sorry. You would not recognize a purge, because we live in America.
3. I understand its your job to make the other side look bad so your side wins elections, but do you have to imply that we don't love our country at the same time? No one thinks we should have a weak national defense. In fact, most Americans would disagree that your party, this president, and your war are giving us a strong national defense. When looking at Connecticut, you would be wise to bet the over.
One last thing...
Joe Lieberman is a well-liked ... Senator
In America, we have this mechanism for determining whether a politician is well liked called "elections"... Oh, never mind.
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You can't compare Lieberman and Chafee. Lieberman is a true liberal except for one issue!!! Chafee constantly goes against his party. If it were a conservative getting targeted for his opposition against the war who has a 90% voting record with conservatives...this would be a big deal and you can bet your bottom dollar that Democrats would be talking about it!!!
I don't know. Lieberman made a royal mess of his campaign this summer. He's perfectly capable of that level of incompetence again.
I also have to think that national trends, which from the look of things are anti-incumbent, will help Lamont make a race of it.
Connecticut Democrats are trying unite a party while Joe Lieberman is trying to unite a country. It is something to see how so many Democrats only loved Joe Lieberman when he carried the party banner. Without a D in front of his name, so-called friends are throwing him under the bus. This will destroy the Connecticut Democratic party and will turn the elections over to the Republicans. This Democrat supports Joe!
As long as Ned keeps Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson in the fold, the race is his to lose...
Purge, jihad, insurgents, inquisition.
Sure is a lot of harsh language flying around from those crazy leftists.
-Ozymandias
Joe and W had a mandate--which led to this mess.
Bush "the Decider" and Lieberman "the Divider." Joe ran his campaign like Bush ran FEMA.
A new party emerges- "Liberman for Lieberman" not Lieberman for Copnnecticut.
Lets retire Joe so he can go work for Faux News, with his buddies.
You get a second shot to kill the giant...let's see what you can do...tough guy.
Go Joe Go!!!!
This blogger is happy Joe is sticking around. Currently he is the laughingstock of DC. When we are done, he'll be an utter pariah.
Arrogance begets humiliation.
Lieberman should re-create "A Connecticut Party." How deliciously ironic would that be?
And no one got an ice axe in the head.
Did Chuck Schumer mention Daggers?
Chafee, and Arlen Specter for that matter, have always been considered to be on the liberal fringe of the Republican party. Their voting records are certainly more liberal than Lieberman's is conservative. Furthermore, neither one of these guys was ever considered for the Veep slot on the national ticket. Look at their ACU ratings. Lieberman is in single digits. Chafee is at 40%. This means that Chafee votes against Republicans 60% of the time and Lieberman votes against Democrats about 6% of the time.
I'm not really sure why Republicans feel the need to rally around Lieberman. Except for the war, the votes of his and Lamont's will probably be about the same. Lamont wouldn't have joined the Gang of 14 most likely, so would have voted for the Alito filibuster (well, you don't vote for a filibuster, you vote against cloture or something, but you get my drift). But Lieberman joined the gang of 14 to prevent the "nuclear option" from being exercised. It would have been, as well, since there is nothing in the constitution that demands a 60 vote supermajority for SC Justices.
the difference between Joe and Ned was/is the war. And Joe will now toe the "Get them out soon" line without leaving the place in shambles, which will go over fine with moderates and would have won Joe the primary.
Despite his liberal voting record, Republicans like Joe because he is both a Neo-con, and a Bush enabler.
Will Lieberman's propensity for backing up Bush really get R's to vote for borrow-and-spend Joe? I doubt it. Not in a year where no one wants to embrace Iraq, and Bush.
Why is a gay man allowed to be the Republican party Chair yet not allowed to admit he's gay?
Lowell Weicker needs to stay out of Politics so should Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Left Said Ned,Swan and The Crane Brothers should be all proud of what they have done and this just show that all the Lamont Supporters are just a bunch of left wing, anti american, anti war idiots.
See you in November...Left wingers and lets see how you all take it when your boy(Lamont) is still a private citizen.
Silly peeps....
Schlesinger stays in as he is a non-entity. No push for a replacement. He bows out 2-4 weeks ahead of the general election, on the advice of very high officials, cause he is a good Republican, and good Republicans vote Joe.
ROY O is now 0 for 7...what does he have to do to bring home a winner?
Roy O is really 0 for 7? That doesn't seem right, does anybody have a run down of the races he has run here?
...if the Chairman of the Republican Nation Committee wants to weigh in, he every right to at this point because at last look, he does have a horse in this race
His horse is supposed to be Schlesinger, the nominee of the Republican Party, no? Did he mention the Republican candidate?
I guess Lamont starts down in the polls to Lieberman, as if that's something new. As Lieberman becomes more Republicanish, he starts losing votes. If he stands for "stay the course", and he does, he's toast.
ROY O is 0 for 5 with not 1 winner
1..lost curry 1994
2. lost curry 2002
3. lost sullivan 2004
4 lost lieberman 2006
5 lost malloy 2006
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