Posted on 08/08/2006 8:28:41 PM PDT by psychopuppy
Breaking News Lieberman Concedes Senate Race, Will Run as Independent Just a headline right now....
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I do, if he can raise enough money. The dem $$$$ machine will go into full gear (as if it hadn't already) for Lamont..
Obviously Lieberman thinks so.
The GOP needs to start campaigning about how the Democrat Party has "told off the moderates"
Now, will true conservatives see this as an option too? Do they have the guts to leave the GOP?
Probably. Lamont the winner of all the leftists in CT. Lieberman running as an Independent would probably win since the Republican's really have no candidate with the backing that Lieberman has. Also Lamont standing with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton behind him giving a victory speech doesn't serve Lamont well.
That, and the first chance the dims got to toss the jew under the bus, they took it. Now that he isn't the token on the ticket, they don't need him anymore.
The flaw in your "brilliant" plan is that Lieberman has already stated clearly that he would still caucus with the Democratic Party if he won as an independent.
Please, people; enough with the Lieberman Lovefest. Outside of one solitary issue (Iraq), this man is as blue-state liberal as Kerry and Kennedy.
Run, Joe, run!
That's the way I look at it. Lieberman isn't being "punished" for being pro-war as much as for not getting into line and letting Soros/move-on tell him how high to jump. Liberal or no liberal I respect him for actually saying and doing what he actually believes instead of what he's being told to say he believes.
He may call himself that, and he may be able to get away with it because of some wacky Conn law, but are the Repubs in the Senate going to buy this?
Either you are part of the party or you are not part of the party, no in between.
The turnout in Conn was impressive.
Lieberman will be the front runner right out of the gate, and will win the election with a clear majority.
He lost the Democratic primary by only about 3%.
The Republicans are running a hapless candidate. There will be massive crossover from the GOP to Lieberman.
The Jewish establishment will firmly support Lieberman. Israel is at war right now, and Lieberman stands firm. Lamont will screw Israel along with the US. The Jews know it.
There are more Independents in Connecticut than either Democrats or Republicans.
Lieberman is popular here. He's not going to become unpopular because he lost to the looney-Left kookburgers.
I am a Republican. I don't vote for Democrats.
I don't vote for corrupt or obviously incompetent Republicans either.
But an Independent with whom I agree on THE most important issue of our time - the War? Yes, I can support Lieberman quite comfortably as an Independent. And will.
And there are a lot of others like me in Connecticut.
Joe Lieberman will win re-election.
Remember how loyal he was to Gore, even to the point of compromising on some of his long-held positions, and not declaring in 2004 until Gore definitively bowed out?
Well, when he's elected in 2006, Lieberman will know just who put him back in office, and he will be predictably loyal to us. He's an open book. The radical Left of the Democratic Party just took over and kicked him in the groin. He now owes them nothing, and is freer than he's ever been.
He'll win.
And it won't be close.
Watch for the next Quinnipiac Poll.
Lieberman will have a comfortable lead in the three-man race, which he will not lose.
Not just Lieberman, everything I've read says he is a non-starter in the race.
Just when the Republican party looked like they were on the ropes the Rats give them a gift by eating their own.
I read on another thread that John Fund (of the WSJ) said that Pres. Bush has made it clear, behind the scenes, that he would not object to GOP donors opening their pocketbooks for a Lieberman run.
Probably lots of Republicans and "centrists".
Clinton is now going to campaign for Lamont -- which Lieberman, if he's smart, will actually use against them because there was ads in Conn made by Clinton for Lieberman in this race saying how great Lieberman is.... so a good ad would ask which is it?
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