Sunday NYT: Disappointed boomers joined online activists to beat Lieberman

[DeepModem Mom]

Editor&Publisher: 'NYT' Sunday Preview: Do Lieberman Foes Know What They Want?
By E&P Staff
Published: August 17, 2006

NEW YORK -- In the upcoming New York Times Magazine on Sunday, regular writer Matt Bai declares that, contrary to popular wisdom, the main backers of Ned Lamont in his upset win over Sen. Joseph Lieberman in last week’s Connecticut Democratic primary were not young online activists but “exasperated and ideologically disappointed baby boomers” who felt “duped” by their party’s move to the center during the Clinton years, and later found their “icon” in Howard Dean.

These “older lapsed liberals,” he opines, grew up marching against the Vietnam war and now, beyond the Iraq issue, are “yearning for a more confrontational brand of opposition on all fronts, for something resembling the black-and-white moral choices of the 1960s, that more broadly animated Lamont’s insurgency.”...

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In the article, titled “What Are the Lieberman Foes FOR?,” Bai raises comparisons to the Republican revolution of 1980, when the moderate center was unseated by its right wing with a clear agenda -- roll back the federal government and détente with the Soviets. But he sees a big difference for the liberal Democrats (WHO WILL SURELY DISPUTE THIS).

“By contrast,” he charges, “Lamont’s signature proposal as a primary candidate -- and the only one anyone cared to hear, really -- seemed to be the hard-to-dispute notion that he is not, in fact, Joe Lieberman...."....

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Bai also interviews one of those behind the "Reagan revolution," Jeffrey Bell, who says that while "it's easy to say these guys are nuts" -- referring to the DailyKos and Moveon.org campaign activists -- "the truth is, they're on the rise, and I think they're very impressive."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003019097

(Note: The Times itself was one of the few papers to endorse Lamont, in an eloquent editorial that did, in fact, focus almost entirely on Lieberman.)

[AX10]

1. The Internet may do for the Democrats what Talk "Hate" Radio...

did for the GOP.

[mrsadm]

4. Boy would I love to see that happen!

I have long struggled with what's the liberal response to counteract right wing hate radio?

[DeepModem Mom]

5. It has to be the net, I'd think -- especially for Gen Y. nt

[rusty charly]

2. "Do Lieberman Foes Know What They Want?"

doesn't this just feed into the "agenda-less left" meme?

lieberman foes know what they want: out of iraq, accountability in government, and end to the advancement of 'big brother', etc, etc, etc.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. E&P knew this premise would be strongly disputed --

"But he sees a big difference for the liberal Democrats (who will surely dispute this)."

I've edited to cap these words.