The End for Weepin'Joe?

[kent_allard_jr]

It's gonna be close, but so far it looks like Ned Lamont will beat Joe Lieberman for the Democratic nomination. I didn't like Lieberman when he beat Lowell Weicker in 1988, and like him even less today, so I'm happy to see him lose. On the other hand... The Republicans will make Lieberman a cause celebré (a role Lieberman will be all too happy to fill) and they'll make the Martyrdom of Holy Joe an issue in November. The Lamont campaign may have also sucked up resources that could've been spent taking back the House of Representatives. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, of course.

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[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Maybe. I'll wait to see if he wins the general election as an independent. If so, it could be a huge loss to the party...

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Lieberman damaged the anti-Bush effort by being a Democrat who gave bipartisan cover to the neocons. There were a few issues on which Lieberman was a better Democrat than Lincoln Chafee, though not many, but the damage he caused by being Bush's fig leaf of bipartisanship and the scold of the left vastly outweighed those few little gestures towards liberalism. The party and the nation will be better regardless of who wins that seat in November, even if it's the no-longer-Democratic Joenertia.