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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[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

I see this as a test for the support the American public have for the war in Iraq (ie. much less than before), with voter voting for principles not personality.

If a Democrat anti-war candidate wins now (as it seems most likely looking at the numbers so far), it suggest that November could be a bloodbath with other Republican incumbants frantically trying to save their seats.

I noted with great interest that voter turn-out in Conn. was close to *double* that of previous nomination races, and many unregistered voters joined the Democratic Party in order to vote today.

::B::

P.S. Besides, today's (likely) winner shares the first name of your alternate pulp alter-ego; how could he lose?

[jlc.livejournal.com]

What resources do you feel Lamont's campaign sucked up?

Hot air and utter senselessness from inside-the-beltway Democrat pundits? Uh...

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

I think each cycle, the most publicly egregious undecutter of the party should be singled out for a massive primary challenge. Just picking one will have marvelous effects on everybody who diesn't want to be the next one standing when the music stops.

[greenbaron.livejournal.com]

It is interesting that Dick Morris comapred this scenario to the 1980 NY Senate election when Al D'Amato ousted liberal Republican Jacob Javitz (his voting record was similar to Edward Brooke's who was to the left of Tsongas).

According to one Joey ad, Lamont was called Lowell Weicker's bear cub and presumed to be like Weicker in potential voting record (Weicker came to prominence as an anti-war, anti-LBJ Republican), but I doubt Kos would back a fiscally conservative dove.

In what I see as good news, but heavily unrelated, Cynthia McKinney is also out in Georgia, and surprisingly she didn't blame her favorite scapegoat.

What is kind of funny about the issue of Liberman is that Nebraksa's Senator Ben Nelson is much more conservative (aside from the issue of the Iraq war, Lieberman is pretty liberal), but I guess the Democrats know that Nelson is the best they can get in Nebraksa as some Republicans relaize Chafee is the best they can get in Rhode Island.

Also, the ghost of Tom Delay haunts his district as his name cannot be removed from the ballot.

The Connecticut Senate race will be a fun one, now. Joe Lieberman with all the excitement of Al Gore on valium vs Ned the WASP with a creepy stare vs Alan Gold/Schlesinger, the Gambling Man :)