Well knock me over with a feather.
Posted on 07/30/2006 6:18:41 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
The New York Times on Sunday backed Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont in his Democratic primary challenge of Sen. Joe Lieberman, criticizing the three-term incumbent for his support of President Bush's national security policies.
The Hartford Courant and the Connecticut Post on Sunday backed Lieberman.
The Times said Lieberman's efforts "to appear above the partisan fray" have turned him into one of the administration's most useful allies.
"If Mr. Lieberman had once stood up and taken the lead in saying that there were some places a president had no right to take his country even during a time of war, neither he nor this page would be where we are today," the Times wrote. "But by suggesting that there is no principled space for that kind of opposition, he has forfeited his role as a conscience of his party, and has forfeited our support."
Lamont has reversed his standing, with the most recent Quinnipiac Poll this month showing him with a slight lead over Lieberman, 51 to 47 percent among likely voters in the Aug. 8 primary. The survey's sampling error margin is plus or minus 4 percentage points. Lieberman polled 55 to 40 percent in June.
The Courant wrote that it does not usually endorse candidates in primaries, but did so now because the race has drawn national attention and is a "defining moment" in the debate about the war on terrorism.
"Mr. Lieberman's history of enthusiasm for military interventions overseas is an anomaly in a man famous for mediating among warring factions in Washington," The Courant wrote. "But to dismiss this moderate — a vanishing breed in a Congress sundered by extremism on both sides — for dissenting on a single issue would be a terrible waste. And a mistake."
The Connecticut Post called him "a proven leader."
"There have been many times when we've disagreed with the senator, but his overall record is commendable and the record of a fighter who has been there for Connecticut in the areas of defense contracts, the environment, education, health care, civil rights and transportation," the Post wrote.
Et tu Brute?
I really wish we had a good republican to run.
You mispelled "slimes".
Well of course! He backs some of GWB's policies...what more could the Slimes want?
The NYT didn't have much credibility left, but it just tossed away the last shred. Leftist orthodoxy is the creed of the day. God help us all when the left wing takes over. They will get many of us and our allies killed.
A shock.
A warm body with no baggage would be better than the Schlesinger guy.
Not a surprise. The HY Times want liberman to lose in CT, and the US in Iraq.
..it's because of thinking like this that Islamic terrorist have become the problem they are...appeasement will lead to the death of many. When faced with a threat you eliminate it, you don't store it (prisons) you don't push it away, you don't hope you can reason with it....you eliminate it!!
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If Lamont defeats Lieberman and then goes on to win in November, Connecticut will be represented in Washington by a marginal hack whose only "qualification" for the position is that he opposed Lieberman on one specific issue. If Lamont wins in November, I predict he'll become the 2006 version of Jean Carnahan -- that dopey mediocrity who was named to replace her late husband back in January 2001 and promptly lost in a special election in 2002.
Except in this case he wouldn't face reelection until 2012.
They're all in favor of "bipartisanship" - unless it results in a policy they don't like. They rail about the bitter divisions in Washington, and then want to jettison one of the few Senators that occasionally rise above those divisions.
How much more feckless can the New York Times get? They've long since lost their reputation for objectivity (remember Bill Buckley's appearance on Laugh-In in 1968?), and they've more recently lost their reputation for honesty and getting the facts straight. Now they're demonstrating a virtually complete disconnect from the real world, as they continue their journey to becoming a daily version of the Weekly Workers News.
I can't imagine the people of Connecticut would be well served by having someone like that with no seniority and no real influence representing them in Washington.
Joe doesn't impress me. And with Clinton backing him he impresses me even less.
Jewish Court Excommunicates Lieberman
By Scott Hogenson
CNS Executive Editor
October 23, 2000
1st write thru: adds details, background
(CNSNews.com) - A rabbinical court in Brooklyn, New York has taken the unusual step of excommunicating Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential hopeful on Al Gore's ticket.
The New York Torah Court stated that Lieberman caused "grave scandal" for the Jewish religion "by the fact that, while claiming to be an observant Jew, Lieberman has been misrepresenting and falsifying to the American people the teachings of the Torah against partial birth infanticide, against special privileges and preferential treatment for flaunting homosexuals, and against religious intermarriage of Jews."
Rabbi Joseph Friedman, a spokesman and participant in the rabbinical court, said in a statement that Lieberman "violated our sacred Torah by his Senate votes upholding partial birth infanticide and legitimizing homosexuality, which abnormal and unhealthy behavior the Torah strongly condemns as sinful and immoral."
Well knock me over with a feather.
Joe LIEberman is as phoney as a Bill CLiton 3 $ Bill.
Has nothing to do with religion.
BUT,,, if your gonna CLAIM to be an othodox Jew who doesn't suck for VOTES on Saturday at least be a orthodox Jew in the eyes of your fellow Jews.
I'm Jewish too but hell I love a BLT as much as the next guy and I don't HIDE that fact from anybody!
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