Lieberman marches alone as former allies surround Lamont

[MaineDem]

HARTFORD, Conn. --U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman continues to go it alone.

While prominent Connecticut Democrats surrounded U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont at an annual Labor Day parade Monday in Newtown, the three-term incumbent marched several blocks behind with a group of campaign volunteers, a gap that symbolized his split with the party stalwarts who once supported him.

Lieberman, the Democrats' nominee for vice president just six years ago, has launched an independent campaign in an attempt to save his Senate seat after losing to Lamont in last month's primary.

"I'm not about partisan politics," Lieberman said. "I have experience, I have seniority. Lamont is inexperienced. He's partisan."

...

There were no boos from the crowd for either Lieberman and Lamont Monday, and supporters for each cheered lustily as their candidate passed. There was a minor scuffle between a Lieberman supporter and a Lamont backer and police were called in, but no charges were filed.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/09/04/lieberman_marches_alone_as_former_allies_surround_lamont/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News

[Frazzled Educator]

1. What is Joementum saying?

"I'm not about partisan politics," Lieberman said. "I have experience, I have seniority. Lamont is inexperienced. He's partisan."


WTF???

[Kutjara]

2. It's that tricky verb conjugation thing again:

I'm independent.
You're partisan.
He/she/it is a Nazi.

That one always threw me in English grammar class.

[brer cat]

9. I'm not reminded of English grammar classes

but of a course I took in Russian propaganda in the 1960's. Joe must have taken the course as well, and taken very careful notes.

[truthisfreedom]

28. i agree with joe, he's not partisan. he's a Republican. see the diff?

he's a non-partisan rethug. plain and simple. he supports the president no matter what the president wants.

[JerseygirlCT]

12. He keeps talking about his opponent's nasty campaign tactics

while running some pretty darned nasty commercials and saying some incredibly nasty things himself.

A big old page right out of the GOP playbook.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Booooooooooooo Joementum, you phony

Because the crowd failed to give you your just deserts, I will oblige:

Booooooooooooo

Your 15 minutes are up, you phony republicon crony

[rodeodance]

4. that must have been quite the scene.

[Olney Blue]

5. Go Lamont! We need you in Congress.

[NOLADEM]

6. He's partisan alright....Republican Partisan

Does Joe have any supporters left on DU?

Will he caucus with the Dems or Repukes if he wins in November? I assume it is not certain he will caucus with the Dems after this.

[hyphenate]

15. I don't think Lieberman

has had supporters at DU for a very long time. Part of the reason he lost his state's Democratic primary is because he's been saying the same shit about supporting the war and kissing Bush ass for at least four years. He might have been Gore's pick for VP, but I think Gore wanted him because he was a moderate, not a Repuke kissass. His true colors are now out in the open, and it's difficult now to see him as anything but a puke supporter.

Sure, he's had some left-leaning stances, but in the old days, before the neocons, he would have been considered a moderate liberal. But under the "new rules" of the neocons, and their OWN terminology, he is one of them, not one of US.

[yurbud]

22. When I read about that doc on assassination of Bush, I thought of Gore

and Lieberman.

If Bush were gone, nothing would change except the right would have a martyr, and they'd have to actually look at Dick Cheney more often.

If Gore had been elected and killed though, Lieberman would have taken things in a substantially different direction.

So even if Gore won, we were a bullet away from getting the same outcome.

[hyphenate]

24. Indeed

I am a fan of time travel as a science fiction fan, and one of the things I'm always looking for is alternate realities. Science fiction fans and scientists have already written pretty much everything there is to write about in terms of not changing history if they were to go back in time, but since the string theories have been bounced around, it's become more interesting to look at divergent histories and see what would result if we did indeed go back and change some significant event.

The theory is that changing an incident is like a large boulder in a stream. When the water comes to that boulder, it goes around it, in two separate directions, "meeting" again on the other side of the boulder. Thus, string theory gives us a chance to change history, and allow the creation of a separate timestream so that while nothing would change in the original time stream, a new one would be created as a parallel world. It's more fun as a writer to look at different, alternate universes this way and see what could have happened if things had gone another way.

I think about the 2000 election alot in this scenario. With Gore as president, I think that the attacks would have happened much later, but with far more casualties. As it happened right around the starting time for employees, there were far less people in the buildings of the WTC and the Pentagon. Since Gore would have had more preparations for terror attacks, there is a likelihood that al Quaeda would have had to plan more, and that it might have been during a time of the day when there were many more people inside.

On the other hand, without Rove and Cheney around, I don't think Gore would have rushed into battle with Iraq. We would likely be in Afghanistan to catch bin Laden, but for Gore there would have been no need to go after Hussein.

Without the idiots in charge, our civil liberties would likely still be intact, and there would have been no Gitmo, no Abu Ghraib, no two new far right judges on SCOTUS.

Regardless, it is always a topic worth mulling over, to try and look at it with a desire to see what might have been, and not what really was.

[yurbud]

26. There would have been no 9/11 since Bushies either let it happen or

incited it.

If it did happen, the consequences would have been more like the first one or the Oklahoma City bombing--there would be public grief and a hunt for those who did it, but it wouldn't turn our lives upside down and end our democracy.

[yurbud]

27. Joe still has the shill vote here I think his own mother, wife, & kids

have said they are going to vote for Lamont.

The Republican candidate is probably going to vote for Lamont.

[stepnw1f]

7. Mr. Charlatan in Shame...

walk that loooong mile, boyyyy!

[ShockediSay]

8. Not partisan? What about Israel Lobby? nt

[gratuitous]

10. I think I saw Joe on the Jerry Lewis telethon

But he had to go before Jerry sang "You'll Never Walk Alone."

[IndianaGreen]

11. The Lieberman backer tried to attack a man carrying a baby

and a Lamont sign. Some big thug that look more like he belong in Cheney's entourage than with Lieberman. The clip was shown on CNN>

[sidpleasant]

20. Thugs for Lieberman?

In the last week of the primary campaign - when that Big Pharma lobbyist was posing as a Lieberman supporter while trying to provoke incidents at Lamont events - some Lieberman supporters assaulted a 90 year old WW2 veteran who was trying to speak to Ned. The elderly hero was knocked to the ground. Now we have a Lieberman backer attacking a guy carrying a baby. What the f**k is wrong with these people? Perhaps they're some of those College Republicans that Joe hired for GOTV in the weekend before the primary?

[RCinBrooklyn]

13. CNN reports showed crowds booing both men. Who marched with Lamont? n/t

[AlCzervik]

14. that headline sure makes it seem like the BOGLO is trying to make Joe

look like a sympathic figure, i really hope the public doesn't start viewing him as one.

[samsingh]

16. have any new polls been released?

[rodeodance]

17. ~~and the cheeze stands alone~~ hi ho the daryo, the farmer in the dell:

[Omaha Steve]

18. Lieberman Marches in Labor Day Parade

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060905/D8JUCG2G2.html

Lieberman Marches in Labor Day Parade
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Sep 4, 8:42 PM (ET)

By STEPHANIE REITZ

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - When prominent Connecticut Democrats marched with Senate candidate Ned Lamont in the annual Newtown Labor Day parade, one prominent Democrat wasn't with them.

Sen. Joe Lieberman was farther back in the parade lineup Monday, even farther back than the Republican candidate, Alan Schlesinger. Now an independent candidate for re-election, the three-term incumbent marched several blocks behind with a group of campaign volunteers, a gap that symbolized Lieberman's split with the party stalwarts who once supported him.

Lieberman, the Democratic nominee for vice president just six years ago, launched an independent campaign in an attempt to save his Senate seat after losing to Lamont in last month's primary.


Sen. Joe Lieberman walks with his wife, Hadassah, Monday Sept. 4, 2006, in the Newtown, Conn. Labor Day parade. While prominent Connecticut Democrats surrounded U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont at the annual parade, the three-term incumbent marched several blocks behind with a group of campaign volunteers, a gap that symbolized his split with the party stalwarts who once supported him. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)


Lamont was the Democratic candidate officially invited to march in the Newtown parade, one of the state's biggest events kicking off the traditional campaign season.

FULL story at link above.

[CollegeDUer]

19. Lieberman was snubbed at his own state's parade

I have to say, people really have fallen out with Mr. Lieberman. I'm sure if we had brave primary challengers with the money to win, that this fate would reside amongst many more incumbent politicians.

[yurbud]

21. It's time to pull Joe's feeding tube and water

[goforit]

23. Lamont? Watch your step!!! Those X-Lieberman allies may be no good!!

I wouldn't trust the DLC as far as I could throw them.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

25. Spazeboy 's video from the parade

http://www.laresistance.us/blog/ned-lamont-la-resistance-round-up/index.htm