Posted on 08/16/2006 12:45:00 PM PDT by Sashasasha
Wrongo
BTW, if State Senator John McKinney is half as despicable an excuse for a Republican and for a human being as his congresscritter father who died of AIDS, we don't need him either. Lieberman won't die of AIDS, whatever his drawbacks may be.
great analysis ..not.
Just how does another Republican "step in"? Getting this nominee out might wind up like the Delay fiasco in Texas.
What it would actually show is tactical sense.
If any Rat runs against Snowe or Collins or any other "enlightened" GOP moderate, the Dim candidate and the Dim machine will campaign against them just as hard as they would against a real conservative.
I don't support Schlesinger because he's scandal tainted and won't make it above 5%. But still, the GOP should stay out of this race and let the chips fall where they may fall. It's just like Alien vs Predator. Whoever wins, we lose.
how exactly is it tactical sense for Republicans to get Lieberman elected, how does it help to maintain the GOP majority in the senate, get Judges appointed, tax cuts etc if a ultra liberal is allowed to define himself as a centrist politically,
AND when Red Ned is defeated by Lieberman and Republicans re-elect Lieberman as they did over "Republican" Weicker in 1988; the Demonrats, moveon.org, the Deans, International ANSWER, and the other red slime will scream in pain as intense as that of banshees doused in Holy Water.
As Republicans unite behind Lieberman, Lamont and his red supporters will be destroyed without waste of resources.
Those confused about what to do here need lots of analysis.
I don't know. It may be too little too late for a good Republican to step up. But conservatives and Republicans should never support a liberal. I can understand if Joe would have denounced his own party and forcefully stood by Bush's side on the WOT instead of backing down right before the primary. Look, Lieberman even trashed the WOT and Rumsfeld when it was clear he was losing the moonbat vote. He's just another Dim politician trying to save his ass.
The Dems won't want that. They will support Lamont half-heartedly, unless it appears that Lamont will win (which is unlikely). As the race heads to the finish, they will make nice, and a few may even campaign for ol' Joe.
From Joe's point of view, the voters in his state are pretty left wing. They are split between the moonbats and the socialists. Joe cannot win if he suddenly becomes a Republican. He HAS to tell the voters that he will stay a Dem, or else the Dems won't vote for him, because they sure don't want to send a Bush supporter to the Senate. So, even if he is pissed off at his own party, he has to say nice things about the Dems, and tell the voters that he will still be a Dem if elected. So, unless he wants to look like a liar, when he gets back to DC, he'll do exactly what he promised, which is caucus with the Dems. They'll put him on a committee, maybe not his first choice, but a decent one, and all will be forgotten in a year or two. After all, it's not like Joe left the party or anything, he's just not as far left as 52 percent of the Dems in Connecticut. He's still to the left of 60 or 65 percent of the dems nationwide.
The best thing for the GOP to do (failing to get a replacement candidacy) is to stay out of the race and let the rats tear it out, a case of one extreme ultra lib or ever another less extreme ultra lib slugging it out in CT..the GOP should not be wasting its effort.
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
Schlesinger should run very quietly and then drop out of the race near the end of October.
We want this Joe vs. Ned.
Either way we win.
Never thought I'd live to see the day that a Freeper in good standing told other Freepers to vote for the Dem candidate instead of the Republican in the race. It will be a cold day in hell before I vote for a Dem in any race where political philosophy has any bearing. Dogcatcher, maybe. School board on up, hell no.
See #95.
It will be interesting for the GOP to "let it ride" and see just what the voters of Connecticut do.
A vote for Lieberman is a vote for a left wing democrat. I don't smoke crack because it's safer than heroin, and I don't vote for Lieberman because he's less loony than Lament. They're both still liberals, only a few degrees separated.
Lieberman wouldn't join the attempted filibuster against Alito. Lamont almost certainly would have. Lieberman has pointed out that we owe our president some respect in wartime, in the national interest. Lamont would not. That kind of thing matters.
I would add that there would be a slight upside to a Lieberman loss. The idea of a "moderate Democrat" would take another small hit, and it would become slightly more clear to a few more people that they simply belong in the GOP, not the Rat party. But the "moderate Dem" myth is very powerful, because the historic Democratic party has a powerful hold on many, many people's imaginations.
It's more helpful, I think, to show the handful of other non-crazy Democratic senators that they can be non-crazy and still survive a primary challenge and the opposition of their hard-left colleagues.
But look, if Joementum loses, he had it coming.
I see you have a history here...
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