Kerry hounds on Joe
Well our good buddy John Kerry has stepped up to the plate as the latest person in the Democratic Party who just HAS to throw in their two cents about Joe Lieberman.
Kerry was on ‘This Week’ with George Stephanopoulos blasting at Lieberman for his continued campaigning as an Independent facing his recent failure to nab the Democratic Ticket.
Kerry commented that “I’m concerned that Lieberman is making a Republican case. Joe Lieberman is out of step with the people of Connecticut.” Kerry also chimed in a small “courageous” label for Lieberman’s trailing opponent Ned Lamont for his willingness to challenge Joe on the War in Iraq.
Sorry Kerry, I’m not seeing the numbers to allow me to accept your “out of step with the CT voters” comment. Most polls have Lieberman in the lead by at LEAST 6% and some by as much as 12% (( http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x11362.xml?ReleaseID=948))
If anything, Lieberman is out of touch with the extremist division of the Democratic Party that is currently in control of the DNC. Any political number cruncher can attest to the fact that “extremists” on the left make up about 1/3 of their voters… and last time I checked 1/3 is not really sufficient to win ANY sort of recent election. You can get the numbers to put you up for the general election but there’s something about being an extremist that makes voting in the general election a difficult task.
If anyone should know what it’s like to be propped up by the far left, only to fail in the end it should be you John.
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Ha, we’ll see on election day exactly who is out of step with CT Voters 
@Joel: What does having high approval ratings have anything do with defeating your enemies? Nothing at all, I’m afraid. Since when was the war idiotic and unjustifiable? Iraq has been identified as a state sponsor of terror since 1990, hardly unjustifiable to topple a dictatorship and a terrorist regime and replace it with a democracy (by the way, are you familiar with the Kurds? no, I thought not. Because saddam slaughtered em).
Lamont is extremist because… Anyone who does not agree 100% with the Democratic party nowadays is thrown under the bus, overboard, whatever term you want to use. Lieberman votes democratic 90% of the time, and yet because he is strong on national security his name is smeared on the floor and he is subjected to some of the worst slander one can imagine.
It’s not his stance on the war I’m talking about… it’s that in order to be against the war AND be supported by the powers that be in the DNC (Dean / Pelosi etc.) you have to “Hate Bush” with a passion.
Lieberman doesn’t “hate Bush” and because of this a LOT of the “angry liberals” (see my other comments in my last Lieberman topic) dismiss him as some sort of traitor.
It’s not just the war. Polls show that Democrats in CT also voted for Lamont because they were still angry over Lieberman’s support of Clinton’s impeachment.
It’s Democracy working — a party actually nominates a candidate they can agree with. Unusual? Perhaps. UnAmerican? I hope not.
Four weeks ago, Lamont was down by 20 points. Today it’s less than 10. This is a deeply blue state, and there’s a lot of anger over Bush and Lieberman. All Lamont needs to do is present himself as something more than anti-war and he’ll win.
Anyone taking bets?
Since when is being against an idiotic and unjustifiable war pushed by power hungry fools being an extremeist? Are you aware of our President’s approval ratings? Adjectives are easily thrown around, I’d like to see why you think that Lamont is an “extremist”.