Posted on 08/09/2006 6:29:00 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility
Joe's defeat should send message August 9, 2006
His mo-Joe wasn't working. His Joe-mentum got stalled by an unpopular president and an unlovable war.
Pick whichever wordplay you're partial to: Joseph Lieberman, 18-year member of the United States Senate, Democratic vice presidential nominee, staunch supporter of the war in Iraq, prominent hug-buddy to President Bush, a decent and honorable man, was defeated in his own political party by a guy no one had even heard of a year ago.
Are you watching, Hillary Clinton, you war-wobbly Democrat?
Are you listening, Peter King, you war-supporting Republican in a heavily Democratic state
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King is a republican who would be happy to run in a primary against an anti-war republican, you idiot!
There is no political message here other than liberals in a liberal state are anti-war.
I was telling my better half last night the Dims crack me up. Everytime they get ready for a race, the insist the starter use a real pistol with real bullets and aim it at their feet.
He has the voice of a cartoon character... and the brain of one as well. Put simply... Ellis Hennican is what stinks and sometimes winds up stuck on your shoe.
The Democrats keep thinking they can win elections with a hate-Bush message. Sure that works in a primary, but lets see if it works in the general elections. My bet is even in left-leaning Conneticut that the Dems will lose this one. The far-left won a battle but will lose the war.
Agreed, and yet Snoozeday puts his editorial on Page 3 this morning. To think, I used to like that paper.
The most obvious message is that Jewish people of faith are no more welcome in the Democrat party than are Christian people of faith.
Email him... Hennican usually has his link at the bottom of the piece. I've rattled his cage a number of times. If he replies... don't be offended by his use of lower-case... he hasn't figgered' out the Shift-Key yet. His responses... are always as well thought out as his columns.
WTH? What war is 'lovable'? This is one of the most insightful comments into the mind of a dumocrat that I have heard in a while. War has to be lovable. War is HELL! No one that does not face east five times a day loves war, but those that value life, liberty, prosperity, and the United States know that, when threatened, sometimes you must fight to defend yourself or you will be in constant threat of annihilation. Kenny Rogers once sang "Sometimes you gotta fight when your a man" and the libs don't seem to understand that. They think that fighting (by America) = barbarism, no matter the cause or enemy!
Sounds like a good idea. I will paste the email, and any reply, into a post here later on when I get a chance to write it up.
The moonbats have shown they can barely win a primary in a blue state. And having started this war, they now have to beat Lieberman in the general election - or else show they cannot win when it really matters. I fully expect Lamont and the moonbats to self-destruct by November as their attacks against Lieberman go over the top and truly alienate moderate voters. Plus, the pubbie has no chance of winning, so expect a lot of GOP voters to back Joe.
Remember, Conn is merely a suitcase suburb for the elite of NYC. Their kids don't join the Army/Marines, they go to Ivy League schools and plan on "rewarding careers" that challenge their creativity just like their parents. In a nutshell, Conn is full of pussies. So don't be surprised when they prefer a candidate that represents the pure pussy outlook versus one that is only 90% pure pussy. As someone said "they can't handle the truth", so they pretend their daydreams are the truth.
I thought CT had more registered Independents than Dems?
Oh it will send a message alright. Right up there when they refused Bob Casey the opportunity to speak at their convention when they knew he was dying.
Peter King is from New York, not CT :) .
The Connecticut election last night taught us one thing:
Any white male (like Ellis)that is still a Democrat, is really a coward little girl inside.(like Ellis)
I read that the last time an independent or third-party candidate was elected to the U.S. Senate was 1976, but I don't know the details. Who was it? Which state did he represent? Was he liberal or conservative?
When Charlemagne had finished building his Empire in 799, the Pope crowned him at a coronation ceremony proclaiming him the New Roman Emperor. This seemingly innocous act led to a fight that would last for centuries: who was the real king maker the Church or the State?
Tonight as I write this a similar coronation is going on in Ct. The sitting three term incumbent Joe Lieberman has been defeated by a political unknown Ned Lamont. (This is unusual because Joe is only the fourth Senator to lose a primary since 1980.)
Lamont is defined politically almost solely by his opposition to the war in Iraq. But the interesting part is the people who back him. Dubbed the "Netroots" it's an interesting patchwork of far left wing blog sites like DailyKos and MoveOn.Org. These people sent all kinds of money to Lamont who is a millionaire turning what is traditionally viewed as a local battle into a full scale national war.
Although they have found a narrow victory (Lamont catching 144,005 to Lieberman's 134,026, with 98 percent of precincts reporting) these people will be hailing a "major truimph".
This is going to leave moderate Democrats in pickle because the fringe's message isn't going to resonate with most people, and having most of the votes is what they need to win. If the attempt to appeal to the moderate base, they're going to lose the fringe and there aren't enough moderate Democrats to win anything either. Unfortunately, the fringe knows this and like the Pope's of old will excommunicate Democrat that refuses to tow their views.
Thus while anti war activists celebrate their victory, the real disaster and fight for the Democratic soul is looming ahead.
Truly shameful display of the ugly underbelly of Democrat politics, and how ruthlessly they exploit their donut-eating constituents.
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