Comments on: Dems Back Lamont, Shun Lieberman Bid

Give Full Support To Primary Winner, Wary Of Senator's Independent Run

[one_american]

Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat with any sense at all, has been sacrificed by the lunatic left in Connecticut. One wonders when the truly moderate Democrats will take back their party in that state, if ever...

Good luck, Joe.

[ottodratrace-2009]

It's over Joe! Yesterday you're a solid democrat, today you're an independent. Basically you're running on the 'I don't want to loose my job' platform. Too late for that, maybe you should have represented your constituents and we would have voted for you. Your arrogance knows no bounds. Go Away!

[s4c1]

Sen. Lieberman no longer belongs in the Democratic party. The party has left him...he never left the party. A party that used to be about the working class people...has been shattered by the voices of hatred. You know, like *** Durbin calling our US forces Nazi stormtroopers...or how about Sen Kennedy saying that Hussein ran his prisons better than we do...Saddams prisons killed somewhere around 25 million people (estimated). The hatred continues to be dished out by Clinton (pick one), and by Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi...Harry Reid...I could go on...and...on. The once proud party of John Kennedy has been thrashed about by the like of George Soros...who's side is he on anyway? Joe, keep your head up...you are a fine man, a fine Patriot, and a great role model for all Americans. Your problem? You have high moral standards, incredible integrity, and ethics that have long left your party.

[deboayeni]

Lamont won the primary and Lieberman should abide by the wishes of the voters and retire gracefully. If he runs as an Independent it will become clear that for some reason he thinks that he is the only person qualified for the job of Senator from Connecticut. I like Lieberman, but like so many elected officials it appears that he has been on top of the mountain so long, he feels that the Senate job is his by birthright. He reminds me of the fading athlete who hops from team to team because he doesn't know what else to do with himself. After 36 years as a professional politician, it appears that Joe Lieberman doesn't know what to do with himself either.

[carla45]

thank you groganb327...... I agree with all that you said. Democrats wake up now this is what the republicans think of you. Cleveland, Republican Party chairman Ken Mehlman seized on the results in the Connecticut primary to assail the Democrats on national security and called Lieberman's defeat a "shame." Now who side do you think lieberman is on. if the democrats who are in office don't do there job's then we need to get them out.

Now then, if we can only do the same thing with Senator Feinstein out here in California... anyonebutfeinstein.com.

[michaelg49]

Mr. Lamont's win in the Connecticut primary is but one reflection of the profound unease and deep dissatisfaction among many Americans, and especially in the Democratic Party at the grassroots level, regarding both the ill-conceived, unnecessary, and counterproductive war in Iraq and our political leaders' failure to effectively address the ongoing disaster that passes for a Middle East foreign policy. It's a wake up call that Democratic Party leaders will ignore at their peril.

[carla45]

Lieberman had already filed paperwork to create a new party called Connecticut for Lieberman. this will give him 5th place on the ballot not 8th. sore loser

[carla45]

Lieberman had already filed paperwork to create a new party called Connecticut for Lieberman. this will give him 5th place on the ballot not 8th. sore loser

[carla45]

lieberman is a sore loser

[carla45]

lieberman is a sore loser

[carla45]

The resurgence of people-politics is because we are fed up with the lies from Dem and Rep alike.
I myself am also fed up with fox news and the hate they throw out at Dems every chance they get.
Lieberman will do what the Rep want him to do as always. That is why he will stay in the race. Stay awake people, stay awake. when Nov gets here come out in force and let them know that this is your country not just theres. Its time to fight back and put out all those who would and do us harm. Lieberman was and is one of them. He is also a sore loser.

[carla45]

The resurgence of people-politics is because we are fed up with the lies from Dem and Rep alike.
I myself am also fed up with fox news and the hate they throw out at Dems every chance they get.
Lieberman will do what the Rep want him to do as always. That is why he will stay in the race. Stay awake people, stay awake. when Nov gets here come out in force and let them know that this is your country not just theres. Its time to fight back and put out all those who would and do us harm. Lieberman was and is one of them. He is also a sore loser.

Now, if we could only do the same thing with Dianne Feinstein out here in California. Well, not exactly, she already won her primary. However maybe that's a good thing, we could put our efforts in the main election and not worry about Lieberman style spoiler tactics. Some weeks ago I put up anyonebutfeinstein.com, my 12 bucks against Feinstein's seven million. The net crickets are still chirping, but who knows. Maybe this comment will help.

[robbyb1]

As usual, the pundits have this all wrong.
This is not a referendum on Bush or the Iraq war, per se -- after all, Connecticut has never been Bush territory. What this is actually about is a deep-seated anger against Democratic politicians who, as the result of some addle-pated, election-losing calculus, act like Republicans. These politicians have philosphically abandoned the Democratic base, represent no one, and don't even win elections!
Liberman's loss should serve as a wake-up call, not to Bush, but to Clinton, Reid, and the rest of the master tacticians who, in trying to thread the needle, have failed to act as Democrats or a constructive opposition, caving on all the big things -- war, Alito, and on and on -- playing it "safe" as the Republicans continue to win election after election and ruin our country.

[memekiller]

There is no media outlet so mainstream that Ann Coulter won't be allowed to hawk her book, or Newt Gingrich won't be asked to opine about our treasonous ways. The resurgence of people-politics is because we are fed up with the venemous, partisan, Abramoff-funded politics that Leiberman enables. The nation is tired of apologists and appeasers on the left and in journalism sucking up to ingratiate themselves with a botched war that is making us less safe, and turning a few thousand rag-tag Jihadists into a worldwide movement of millions, while neglecting port security and protection here at home.

From the right, the media demands partisanship, and from the left, they reward those like Leiberman who will second the rightwing McCarthyism.

With all this hate dominating our political discourse, we have participated with decade of centrist, bipartisan overtures by neutered Leiberman's, even going so fare as to write this President a blank check on a war we had serious reservations about, without a peep from the media regarding the uncivil "tone." Now, we are playing catch up. We do not yet have the hate mongers the right has making regular appearances on Sunday morning shows, so I'll settle for the soft-spoken, pencil-neck geek Ned Lamont, so long as he has the courage to defy the political class and represent us for a change.

[s4c1]

And I quote from a previous comment, by Memekiller(see below) "We hate him...".

I could not sum up the current state, and mindset of the Democratic party any better than that. They are indeed the party of doom & gloom...the party of hate. It truly is a shame what a once proud political party has been turned into by people like George Soros, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and the other Cindy Sheehans of the country...

The message that should be sent is that we need to rid ourselves of the politics of hate, and get back to a true dialogue of important issues.

- s4c

[s4c1]

And I quote from a previous comment, by Memekiller(see below) "We hate him...".

I could not sum up the current state, and mindset of the Democratic party any better than that. They are indeed the party of doom & gloom...the party of hate. It truly is a shame what a once proud political party has been turned into by people like George Soros, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and the other Cindy Sheehans of the country...

The message that should be sent is that we need to rid ourselves of the politics of hate, and get back to a true dialogue of important issues.

- s4c

[s4c1]

And I quote from a previous comment, by Memekiller(see below) "We hate him...".

I could not sum up the current state, and mindset of the Democratic party any better than that. They are indeed the party of doom & gloom...the party of hate. It truly is a shame what a once proud political party has been turned into by people like George Soros, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and the other Cindy Sheehans of the country...

The message that should be sent is that we need to rid ourselves of the politics of hate, and get back to a true dialogue of important issues.

- s4c

[memekiller]

Claiming this is anti-war sentiment is convenient for mainstream journalists, since it lets them off the hook. My opposition to Lieberman had less to do with the war than it did the political class. CBS ought to think about what it means when the only Democrat they deem acceptable for a seat at their roundtables is thrown out of the party. We hate him for exactly the same reason he has become a favorite of morning talk shows: by providing "centrist" cover for the rabid, right-wing partisan's attacks on our party, and the President's critics, no matter how steeply reality is stacked against his position.