Mehlman says he won't work for CT Repuke candidate.

[johnaries]

On MTP, Gregory kept pushing Mehlman on whether he would work to support the Repuke candidate (funny, I can't remember his name for some reason...). Mehlman said he had "been told" to concentrate on other races.

There you go, folks. The RNC wants Lieberman to win CT, and won't even work to support their own candidate.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Mehlman is a fool.

He cleimed that the terrorism at the Munich Olympics was directed at the US. He repeated "cut and run" at least a dozen times.

What a waste of space.

[MissWaverly]

2. Houston, we have a problem

When a party won't support their own candidates, how can they be trusted.

[Lerkfish]

3. and when a candidate won't support his own party, how can HE be trusted?

[AndyA]

4. The Republicans are supporting their candidate in Connecticut, and

his name is Joe Lieberman.

If he hangs in and actually wins, I look for him to change his party affiliation shortly afterward. He really isn't a Democrat any longer. He will be a member of the Republic Party.

[leesa]

6. That's right. He has been their candidate for a long time.

[MissWaverly]

9. I agree that he was a DINO

but if they played by the rules, he could have changed his party and run in the Republican
primary. Believe me if I was someone in the Republican Party, I would be pissed right down,
this crew has no loyalty to anybody not even their own party.

[MissWaverly]

7. No, they have a candidate officially

you realize that if this keeps up we would have no election process, candidates could be
manipulated at will from any part of the US into a soft primary. Look at Obama and how
we had the "Republican draft" candidate Mr. Keyes for an Illinois race.

[WhiteTara]

5. prolly he's signed a contract with Loserf*ck n/t

[MissWaverly]

8. they held on to the news of the bomb plot until after

Liebrman lost, they wanted him to lose so they could use him, and he still sucks up to them.

[MrBenchley]

10. It's a "lose lose lose" situation for the GOP

Either Mehlman had to endorse one of the country's best known Democrats to run against Lamont (You could see the campaign ad even as the question was asked: "even the head of the Republican National Committee thinks a Democrat is better for the job than a Republican"), or he had to endorse Alan "Card-counting? Who, me?" Schlesinger. So he dodged the question, which was the third bad alternative.

But it only plays out if the crazies don't continue to caper and shout on the national stage. Look around here at the calls for purges in other states and tell me if that's likely to happen.

Alas, I do not think so.

[NewJeffCT]

11. Will Dems work for Lamont now?

My concern is that if state & national Dems sit on the fence, Lieberman will get emboldened. If we can get a lot of national Dems to come out for Lamont and to also actively campaign for him, Joememtum can be convinced to drop out of the race... there is a big difference between saying you support Lamont & cutting him a check and coming to Connecticut and campaigning for him in the coming weeks. It's a short drive for the Clintons to come up from Chappaqua, NY to Fairfield County, CT. Heck, they could practically ride bikes to CT if they wanted!


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[theanarch]

12. there's another scenario here that bears some attention...

1) we know (despite all the denials) that Rove and Leiberman are communicating...most likely about how the WH/RNC can help Leiberman in the November campaign.

2) Mehlman (as RNC Chair) won't endorse Schlesinger because it's still possible for him to be replaced as the GOP candidate.

3) the more (nationally-famous) Democrats call for Leiberman to withdraw, the greater excuse he as to switch Parties, which leads to:

4) Leiberman becomes the Republican he always wanted to be, replaces Schlesinger as the GOP candidate, and rakes in tens of millions of PAC contributions from all the corporate (insurance, media, big Pharma, etc. conglomerates) and ideological (e.g. AIPAC) special interests who've bankrolled his entire career (doesn't matter to them what letter follows his name as long as he remains in the Senate to do their bidding).

Leiberman is already leading (albeit slightly) in a three-way race; his chances of winning a two-way race are good-to-excellent. I'm not saying this will happen, but given the dynamics of the situation, and the personalities involved, it has potential.