Lieberman has conceded. But then he unconceded. Then he asked for ideas. Then he asked for money.
Whooooot.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
I’m watching live on C-Span and I’m happy for Lamont (Ive hated Frog Voice for years!) but what absolutely thrilled my heart was to see everyone at the Lamont victory speech CHANTING “bring them home” re the troops. Oh it’s like having a fresh breath of air after near drowning for years! My…
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Congrats to Lamont, his staff and volunteers!
I also want to take a moment to thank Howard Dean, Chuck Pennachio, Christine Cegelis, Paul Hackett and all the other people-powered candidates who put themselves on the line.
Though they lost their own races, they inspired us to get active and to keep fighting for progressive politics.
WOOT, indeed!
what a great night!! Great job to all the volunteers and much much thanks for all of the effort.
And Joe showed that he is still a total douchebag in his speeches.
ugh….
Woohoo!
When Joe asked for money, I answered the call. I made another contribution to Ned Lamont.
You can give too!
Oh and….
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Last I read he had called Lamont and congratulated him either before or after a concession speech in which he whined piteously about “partisan politics”. How could he un concede?
He can’t run as a Democrat, independent or otherwise either. He has to run as a Connecticut for Joe, (and obviously not Joe for Connecticut)
He LOST because he pissed off DEMOCRATS in sufficient numbers so that a majority voted against an incumbent senator & former VP candidate.
I hope Al From and Bruce Reed are having nightmares right now. Their organization shouldn’t be using the Democratic name either.
imo, he conceded his official affiliation with the Democratic party. It was a disgusting display, I’m happy that Lamont won but now tons of money will be funneled into CT that would’ve been spent elsewhere. There is a time for bipartisanship, but this is not it, Joe. The Republicans have been lock-step, LIEberman has only been an enabler of the worst kind.
He’s consistent! With this latest outrage, he remains their enabler. It’s the same way he enables them to keeping making the whole country siphon its human and economic and moral assets into a war that should also be over. It’s a new superpower, I guess. Joe, the Human Siphon.
I think a lot of people were very upset with that speech by Lieberman. He essentially told anyone affiliated with the Democrat party that they were partisan. What a puke. The media and Joe and the thugs do not want a debate about Iraq – but it’s about GD time we had that debate. And the corporate thugs at the DLC just lost bigtime. I’m laughing right now. I’ll be cheering in a few months as well. We’re hungry, and we’re going to win again.
Did anyone else notice Ned ack’ed Joe for the campaign and then ignored him?
Cool. Way Cool.
I heard the news while I was out at my granddaughter’s dance class and had to restrain myself from doing the Snoopy Dance right there in the middle of the viewing area.
And while I have no feelings either way for the other two incumbents who are losing tonight, I can’t help but feel that when we buck a historic trend of 90%+ of incumbents getting re-elected, much less winning primaries, something interesting is happening indeed.
My feelings exactly.
Everybody sing along with Bob:
Certainly McKinney wasn’t perfect (who is?). But she was one of the very few actually less voices in Congress. In a perfect world, there’d be plenty of folks on the left, so one could pick and choose the ones who are media savvy. But that’s not the world we live in.
In the actual world, Cynthia McKinney was an important (if imperfect) voice for ideas that very often otherwise would have gone unspoken. Replacing her with yet another corporate, militarist Dem is a real loss.
That virtually nobody in the left of the blogosphere has lifted a finger for her says leagues about how “left” it actually is.
That’s “one of the very few actually left voices in Congress.”
This is very important and I know I should add to it but I’m not sure how. I just wanted to add some support to your comment.
Lieberman has conceded. But then he unconceded. Then he asked for ideas. Then he asked for money.
…and ‘ole Joe lowered himself to new depths in his rhetoric.
Congratulations and thanks to all for Ned Lamont.
…hey, I was a determined 3rd party over Dem chooser when I first came here. I listened to the arguments of rebuilding the Dparty and thought maybe it might work. Thanks Booman
just wanted to drop a comment to say hello and glad to see you posting more around the pond.
Thanks Manee
I’ve been lurking under a lilypad or something…never too far, but maybe just too quiet. I always did like the special place you folks make it in being here.
I just read this on the conservative NRO electoral blog:
They admitted that so nicely! 🙂
This Lamomt win really moves things up!
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Kos has what appears to be the definitive explanation for Joe’s WebWoes. Sorry Kos deniers, but this is a must-read.
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More information on the nonhack at TPMmuckraker
Unlike me, my wife is mainly apolitical, mainly interested in things like family, religion, horses, novel writing, etc. But she watched with me on C-SPAN tonight the execrable Lieberman “concession speech” (WHAT AN ASSHOLE!) and then the fine Lamont victory speech.
Her comment: “I have tears in my eyes.”
I can’t do better than that.
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Congratulations to all – let’s go forward for total victory in November and General Bush’s Waterloo: what a loserman …
«« click for Lieberman's retreatNed Lamont celebrates his victory at the Four Points Sheraton in Meriden, CT. In the background are Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and to Lamont's left are his daughter Lindsay, and son Teddy. AP Photo/Fred Beckham"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
and we all win tonight. This just proves that we have a chance to take our party and our country back. WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
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A check from Hillary Clinton‘s HILLPAC is being cut to Ned Lamont for five thousand dollars. She’s the first one to be counted on and make good on her promise to support the winner of the Connecticut primary. We can only hope that the rest of the Democratic Party stands behind Ned in his bid to win the Senate seat.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Boston Globe) Aug. 9 — The party has scheduled an 11 a.m. news conference in Hartford. Nancy DiNardo, the party chairwoman, had supported Lieberman. But she said if Lamont, a political newcomer, won the primary, she would have to back him in the general election
Aside from Lamont, state Democrats will have to embrace another primary winner they didn’t endorse in the May convention: New Haven Mayor John DeStefano. DeStefano won the gubernatorial primary over Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy, the party-endorsed candidate, by approximately 2,000 votes. DeStefano now faces popular Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell in November.
Most of the state’s high-profile Democrats, such as U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., publicly and actively supported Lieberman in his primary battle.
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Dodd, who said he planned to attend Wednesday’s news conference, was at Lieberman’s election party at a downtown Hartford hotel, but was not seen with the senator once the election results were final.
All the state’s Democratic constitutional officers, most of whom endorsed Lieberman, are scheduled to be at the event.
“I do think it will be difficult for some people who have been longtime friends of the senator,” DiNardo said. “I can’t speak for them. I don’t know where people will be coming down on this.”
State Sen. William Finch, D-Bridgeport, said he’s going to talk to Lieberman about whether it’s in their mutual best interest for him to support the senator as an independent.
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More than 280,000 ballots were cast in the primary, in which about 27,000 newly registered Democrats were able to vote. Some towns in Connecticut were recording more than 50 percent turnout, officials said, high for a primary.
Governor - - Dem Primary
Name Party Votes Pct
DeStefano, John Dem 134,944 50.8
Malloy, Dan Dem 130,826 49.2
Lieutenant Governor - - Dem Primary
Name Party Votes Pct
Glassman, Mary Dem 120,015 57.0
Slifka, Scott Dem 90,681 43.0
U.S. Senate - - Dem Primary
Name Party Votes Pct
Lamont, Ned Dem 146,061 51.8
Lieberman, Joe (i) Dem 136,042 48.2
CONNECTICUT – Primary Election: March 7, 2000
Gore, Al D 98,312 55.5
Bradley, Bill D 73,589 41.5
Uncommitted D 5,400 3.0
● Connecticut Senate Primary Analysis
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My heart feels lighter than it has in ages.
I saw angry Joe on CNN this morning. He’s full of self rightous vitriol… and more than a little poo. The more he railed against the Left and Lamont the bigger my smile became. Go Ned!
…and more than a little poo.
That’s SO funny. Think I’ll be using that.
Here’s an example: Loserman is a sanctimonious little poo.
Yeah…I LIKE that! :<)
And he does display an awful lot of hubris for a little poo.
I know it’s been “done” but here’s my fireworks pic:
Can’t wait to see the unity rally today with Ned and all the Democrats that show up, Dodd included.
CURIOUS!– Did Ned thank the Bloggers?
I believe he did…thanked the netroots. I’ll see if there are transcripts.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAW!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went on teh site for the US.SENATE and sent a message to every Democratic Senator and ask them in the interest of Party Unity amd for the Goood of the Country to ask Liberman to accept his defeat and not run. The People of CT have spoken and he should accept it. I also sent the same message to DNC, DSCC,DCCcand The Democratic Governors Asociation. Let’s hoe the party has enough sense to talk loserman out of trying to split the party.
Ned’s victory is a thrill. I hope now we can stop hearing him referred to as “millionaire Lamont” – as compared to whom? It would have been just as meaninful to call him the “handsome Lamont” in that race. What’s next – will his republican opponent be a poor working-class hero?
Cynthia’s defeat depresses me. She could be hard to take, but she certainly was representative of many people who need a voice in our government. No surprise that an uppity woman is shoved aside.
Truly there’s nothing new under the sun. Optimist or cynic – let’s unite and party!
Link
American voters are as ready to dump incumbent lawmakers as they were just before they handed control of Congress to Republicans in 1994, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Monday.
Republicans, who control both houses of Congress, stand to lose the most in the November elections because of strong anti-incumbent sentiment and they trail Democrats in support among registered voters, the poll showed.
Fifty-three percent of those surveyed called themselves “anti-incumbent” — nearly the same as the 54 percent who identified themselves as such in the summer of 1994 when Congress was still under the Democrats’ control.
Yes, uh-huh. Here we go!!!