Gee...no kidding.
When you lie down with dogs....
I would be curious to know what the people in Connecticut think of these poll results. Who are they polling? A lot of Yale college students who live out of state won't make a difference. I am always suspect of polls.
Absolutely amazing that the democrats would boot the man who only recently was #2 on their national ticket.
The Democrats are a totally changed, anti-war, pacificist, socialist bunch now.
I suspect there is a real possibility of a 3rd party on the moderate liberal side of the political spectrum that might actually bring about the demise of the Democratic Party.
Assuming that Lieberman loses the primary, it will be interesting to see which prominent democrats support him as an independent.
I actually respect the grass roots Democrats, nutroots and various moonbat activists for this.
Republicans should be doing the same thing. We've got lots of RINO's that need to go. I would love to see the right of center online community tied with conservative activist groups defeat some of our more worthless Republicans in the primaries.
Lets start with Hagel and Spectre next time they are up in the primaries.
I hope he has the spine to tell them to fu*k-off!
Among the vagaries of polling are sample selection, question determination and the inclination to give questioners an opinion confirming the questioner's bias.
Thirteen percent sound like a lot but being off 1 voter in 7 would lead to an erroneous conclusion. In the meantime, there is not a "pool of public opinion" that the journalists are taping. The journalists are bringing to the foreground something that may or may not be in the background of most voters.
We will see.
Poor Lieberman losing to a guy with an empty mind.
Lieberman couldn't have run a worse campaign if he tried. This is a closed primary: only Democrats can vote. They are accusing him of not being Democrat enough. So Lieberman send a flyer to Democrats in the mail that says he's their "Mule in the Senate" and he's working for them. Hello? A mule is half a donkey. This is just one minor example. Lieberman is scared of being heckled, so he doesn't preannounce campaign rallies and then no one shows up for them. Seriously, his ground game and his tactics have been astonishingly bad.
Next, people say that Lieberman being challenged is just like Chafee or Specter. Well, yes and no. I don't recall Chafee or Specter being a Veep candidate. I've never seen either of those guys as even remotely considered a leader of the Republicans.
Lieberman is liberal. He voted for the Iraq war, but other than that, there's not a lot of difference in the views of him and Lamont. Lamont has never worked in politics beyond local level in Greenwich, CT (population 60,000, and wealthy, albeit with some pockets of not so well to do).
Lamont is going to be far left, and since all his money comes from either his own deep pockets or from individual donors, he's going to stay that way if he gets elected. He'll be like Bernie Sanders or Feingold. And he's going to make the DailyKos moonbats really excited, expect them to launch all kinds of primary challenges against anyone who doesn't toe the party line completely.
There are advantages to Republicans if Lieberman wins on Tuesday, but there are as many advantages if Lamont wins on Tuesday and Lieberman goes Independent. (And if Lieberman doesn't go Indy, there are also advantages). And of course there are disadvantages. I'm not what scenario is best, to be honest.
Lieberman winning on Tuesday is going to drive the DailyKos people crazy. They will likely sit out November's election, since the RINO Gov is going to cruise to victory. That race is a lost cause for the Dems, and with Lieberman on the ticket, that won't be inspiring for them. This will help local Republican candidates.
Lamont winning and then Lieberman going Independent will suck a lot of money from other races, both locally and nationally. But it'll help turnout on election day for the Dems, although many of them won't be voting a straight ticket as they vote for Lieberman and the RINO Gov. A Lamont-Lieberman matchup will also use a lot of volunteers: the other Democrat campaigns are going to have a shortage of people working those campaigns.
And Lieberman losing and then not filing to run as an Indy has to hit the national party hard: the Veep candidate from six years ago gets tossed out.
So what's the best scenario for a Republican? I honestly don't know. (Well, if you really want to know, here it is: Lamont wins the primary. Then on October 25th, he flees the country to avoid prosecution for stock fraud. Then the Democrats won't have him around, but will have already spent a ton of money, and the volunteers will already have been used up, and few Dems would show up on primary day. So if you really want to root for something, root for that scenario. If that scenario sounds far-fetched, it is. But of course, in 2000, the Republican candidate turned out to be a pedophile, and in 2006, the Republican candidate has gotten kicked out of two casinos in NJ and one casino in CT and had to be chased down by two casinos in NJ to settle his $20,000 gambling debt. So in CT politics, anything is possible. Oh, and the Bridgeport mayor is an admitted user of cocaine, but the last Bridgeport mayor is in prison. And our ex-governor is out of Prison).
Lieberman loses and Bush appoints him to a cabinet position.
Kos will go crazy!
If this isn't a head fake, I think it is a mistake. The moonbat crowd supporting Lamont is strong on shrillness and hysteria. But they are way short on actually taking the time and effort to vote. And political races, like war, are still won primarily on the ground. Besides, everyone already knows Lieberman and his positions.
Of course, a Lamont win may result in great cartharsis for moonbats. But it would further underscore nationally that the Democrats are the party of appeasement and cut and run. If there is no room for someone as liberal as Joe Lieberman, there is no room for anyone to the right of Hugo Chavez or Cindy Sheehan.
The poll shows that a majority of Democrats will follow the whole of the party and cast off the individual for the "feel good" factor achieved.
Kerry is their only electable candidate.
There is a strong virulent anti-semitic undercurrent in the Moonbat purge of Lieberman.
Looks like the dems are in trouble! Good thing the republican voters agree that Bush is fighting the War On Terror with 100% aggression without the democrat PC crap that lost us vietnam.
Republicans and Conservatives should go out and vote for Lieberman on Tuesday, payback for the Michigan, New Hampshire, and South Carolina Democrats that voted in the 2000 Presidential Primary.
Also, Georgia Republicans should vote for Johnson in the 4th District against Anti-Semite and anti-American Rep Cynthia McKinney.