Wonder how Clinton feels now about Lieberman....verifies Indy run.

[madfloridian]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2272287

"WEST HARTFORD, Conn. Aug 3, 2006 (AP)— U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman said Thursday that he hopes a new poll showing his primary challenger with a double-digit lead will "shake up" his supporters and help him eke out a victory.

Lieberman also said he will run as an independent if he loses the Democratic primary on Tuesday, despite reservations being voiced by some national party leaders.

"But I intend to win the primary," he quickly added.

Lieberman, 64, one of the Senate's most well-known moderate Democrats and his party's nominee for vice president in 2000, has been widely criticized for his support of the Iraq war and his perceived closeness with President Bush.

Millionaire businessman Ned Lamont, a political novice, was supported by 54 percent of likely Democratic voters in the Quinnipiac University poll, compared to Lieberman's 41 percent. The sampling error margin was plus or minus 3 percentage points."

Maybe the deal they supposedly made is off.

[marmar]

1. How low can Joe go?

Do we really wanna know?

[cynatnite]

2. Clinton said he would throw his support behind Lamont...

should Lieberman lose and run independent.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. I'll be interested to see BC campaigns for Lamont should he

win the primary.

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. *Nominal* support, I'm afraid. nt

[Guaranteed]

11. Yup. And we're going to hold him to that. nt

[kurth]

4. "I am disappointed by Democrats" - Lieberman, 11/29/05 WSJ

[mmonk]

5. A Lamont victory will serve notice

to the party candidates and strategists that they had better pay attention to the base and not take their incumbancy and our votes for granted anymore. It should scare them into not supporting any independent run by any defeated dem incumbant in the primaries. It will let them know the power is back to the base and go against it at one's political peril.

[cmkramer]

12. Yeah right

Sorry, but the Democratic base is not made up of the elitist snobs who make up the anti-war movement. Our base is good honest Americans who believe if you work hard and play by the rules, you deserve a fair shot at the American dream no matter your race, color, creed, gender or sexual orientation. Lieberman gets that. Lamont and his supporters don't .

[Dr Fate]

14. Where did Lamont or his supporters oppose any of those things?

Playing by the rules? Working hard? Being tolerant? Where in the world did you get the idea that Lamont & his supporters in the base are opposed to those things?

Our base is POed at Bush and those who agree with him- as they should be.

[cmkramer]

20. because they are

Otherwise, why do they lie and smear people with false accusations?

Oh, how silly of me. Because Ned couldn't have won any other way.

You know that speech/article where Lieberman scolds Democrats and tells them they need to get over that Bush is C-in-C and will be for at least three years? He also goes on to scold Republicans for their excessive partisanship and says that both sides need to do more in order to solve the problems of the war (and no doubt the country).

[Dr Fate]

21. Oh- I see- you made it all up.

So Lamont supporters are now lazy, lying bigots b/c we did not repeat the "good" things Liberman said for his benefit?

Gosh- I guess Liberman goes around repeating good things Lamont says though-right?

Propping up your boy is the job of the Independent party, not Democrats.

[w4rma]

15. A good example of projecting your own faults. (nt)

[Raksha]

16. So 55% of the American public (according to the Gallup poll)

are "elitist snobs"? They'll be happy to know that, I'm sure. Remember, that's Democrats AND Republicans--55% of the population now believe we should be out of Iraq within the year. If they only polled Democrats, the percentage would be much higher than 55%.

What I'm really looking forward to about a Lamont victory is that the media will FINALLY stop referring to us anti-war types as "the far left wing of the Democratic party." Whether they like it or not they will have to recognize us for what we've been all along, i.e. mainstream Democrats.

[calico1]

19. The Democratic base does not

support the war nor believe that women who have been raped should be refused abortions pills in hospitals. They don't believe in school vouchers or in allowing big oil companies to make huge profits. I take it that you are with Joe Lieberman on these issues.

[MarkDevin]

7. Let's start calling him "Traitor Joe."

That back-stabbing mother******! :grr:

[dweller]

8. HONK ... HONK!

oh joe, your ride to the prom is here!




dp

[11cents]

9. He's using his promise of a third-party run ....

...as a threat, blackmail, to make Democrats vote for him in the primary for fear of getting a GOP senator in November. It's possible that after the primary he'll have a different tune.

[cmkramer]

10. the rumors of a deal

were likely made by the samepeople who said Lieberman was seriously mulling becoming a Republican.

My bet is that Clinton will support the nominee of the party because he's a loyal Democrat. But if he does campaign for Ned the Poodle, he'll probably have nice things to say about Lieberman much as he had nice things to say about Ned the Poodle.

[AtomicKitten]

13. your hunch is correct

There is no way in hell any Democrat in leadership/Congress will stray off the reservation and support Lieberman in an independent run once he's been rejected by voters in the Democratic primary.

That wouldn't be particularly democratic, now would it?

Regardless of how much the Clintons are vilified here at DU, they are quite the opposite of stupid.

[insane_cratic_gal]

17. If the democratic party doesn't step behind Lamont

when he wins it, there will be hell to pay from the democratic party (US). When CT chooses their candidate as it should be.


This NEEDS to happen so that Politicians start listening to their constituents,not Corporate America.

[Hubert Flottz]

18. He will make Ralph a dandy VP!

You Go Joe-ho!

Edit...and just keep right on going!

It's your GOP embouchure that we don't like!