Well Joe's current momentum fizzle?

[thepurpose]

Who will rally with Commander
Joerus?

There's been a lot of panic about Lieberman continuing to run, but I think it's going to run out of gas fairly soon.

Why?

For all the support Rove and friends have given Lieberman, who's going to walk the districts and do lit drops for him. His DLC friends aren't going to get their hands dirty, the moderate Republicans can't organize their own party's voters and the churches have little motivation to support a pro-choice Democrat.

While this makes for interesting news in the dog days of summer, the Lamont campaign has many tools to drive up Commander Joerus's negatives without going nasty.

They can simply start with the fact that he doesn't believe in the democratic process, then move on to his demonstration that he attacks Democrats to benefit Republicans, even if it harms his own party. They then can boil it down to "trustworthiness". Ned Lamont does what he says and says what he means, professional politician Joe Lieberman will do whatever it takes to stay in
the Beltway, no matter what it costs.

Josh Marshall was freaking out over the fact that the Lamont campaign took a break. That they needed to crush Lieberman right away.

I see his logic, but I don't agree. Why? Because time is not Joe's ally. The longer this goes on, the more people realize they can lose something. John DeStefano, the Democratic candidate for governor, cannot be happy that Lieberman is using his opponent Jodi Rell's pollster. The House candidates cannot be happy he's sucking the air from their races.

Lieberman has already attacked Dems with GOP talking points and he's got Edwards and Kerry campaigning for Lamont. That list will grow.

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[napi21]

1. It looks to me that what is happening NOW with all the Pubs

supporting him is that THAT support is what is going to destroy Joe. It only proves what Ned has been saying all through the campaign...Joe is more Pub than Dem!

I'm sure Joe likes the money he's getting from the pubs, but I have to believe, deep inside, he realizes this is the absolute WORST kind of publicity he could get!

The voters in Ct. are almost all againsst Shrub's foreign policy, and all this Pub support links Joe directly to it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. Marshall was wrong.

After any hot battle (primary, general election, etc) the voters are themselves exhausted. Joe did himself no favors by immediately getting in everyone's face on every conceivable talk show and news program. All he did was reinforce the idea that he is out of touch with reality, the world and Connecticut.

The best thing that Lamont's people could have done (let they make a silly, deadly error) was to take a well-deserved break. They worked hard and they needed it. It is a long time until November and they need all their energy.

[pazuzu]

3. Candy Crowley: "Lieberman is pulling ahead"

But in reality, he lost by 10,000 votes. The pro-war media has continued to rally behind Lieberman in spite of his defeat, while deriding and slandering Ned Lamont and those who support him.

[Bitwit1234]

4. Liberman

I think that once the democrats who still support Liberman in CT realize he is definetly a republican the support will no longer be there. They should see right away that there are more than 6% of the total voting population are republican and that the overwhelming number of people who approve of Joe have to be more republicans.

[LA lady]

6. I wish I were more optimistic

I think the "Democrats" who support Lieberman will stick with him. The Repukes are making a concerted effort to slap Lamont and I think they may have it in the bag. These numbers need to be watched VERY closely.

[Bumblebee]

7. Welcome, Bitwit!!

:hi: :hi: :hi:

[Bumblebee]

5. Hard to say -- only if 35% Dems who support him now decide he's your basic

GOP candidate -- then it may. Would be nice if the 5-6 senators who support him now switch to start the trend but it's probably unlikely. I still believe Lamont will win but it's a nailbiter.

[Jane Austin]

8. Sucking Air

John DeStefano, the Democratic candidate for governor, cannot be happy that Lieberman is using his opponent Jodi Rell's pollster. The House candidates cannot be happy he's sucking the air from their race

Not just air, Lieberman is sucking out the money desperately needed by CT Congressional candidates as well as the funds needed by Jim Webb and John Tester and Claire McCaskell (sp?) and all the other Dem candidates in other states who are within range of their republican opponents.