Interesting Lamont / Lieberman article

[Cassandra]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/nyregion/02lieberman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

From that dinner where Joementum was booed. This is the reporter's take on it.

" The inattentiveness — as well as the scattered boos amid the supportive calls of "Joe" that welcomed Mr. Lieberman to the podium — convinced some that the three-term senator, criticized for months because of his continued support for the war in Iraq, may be vulnerable in the primary challenge he faces.

"What I was struck by was that not many people were paying attention to him," said Leo Canty, chairman of the Democratic town committee in Windsor, which passed a resolution in February opposing Senator Lieberman's support for the war. "It used to be that he would be more of a presence when he came in."
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And on Thursday night, while Mr. Lieberman said he was pleased with how he was received, Mr. Lamont and his aides said they were pleased, too. Mr. Lamont described people discreetly flashing Lamont buttons from their pockets and whispering to him, "I'm with you quietly."

Mr. Lamont sat a table with James H. Dean, the brother of Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. James Dean leads Democracy for America, a group that has been critical of Mr. Lieberman.

Tom Swan, Mr. Lamont's campaign manager, said he had been wary of attending the dinner, given his campaign's outsider status. "I thought I was going to feel like I was on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney, but when we went into that room it was anything but," he said. "There is no doubt in anybody's mind who follows politics in Connecticut that Ned Lamont can win the Democratic primary after last night.""

[GeorgeGist]

1. For what it's worth...

If Lieberman doesn't wise up to his foolishness, and still wins the primary, he'll have plenty of opportunity to prove it in the next Congress.