Lieberman-Lamont Showdown: The Results are coming in

[Joe Republic]

I have a question.  I do know that the filing deadline for running as an independent is this Wednesday; the day after the primary.  Has Lieberman already got the ~7500 signatures he needs?

[Joe Republic]

I did support Lieberman until he started pursuing this selfish independent bid.

Considering that the man would easily defeat any challengers in the general election due to his widespread popularity in the state, how exactly is he being selfish?  He clearly thinks that he's the better man for the job, so why shouldn't he try to protect himself?

[Joe Republic]

Here's something interesting (taken from Drudge):

Lieberman's campaign website is down today and has been down for a little while.

http://www.joe2006.com/

Hmm.  Probably removing all mentions of the word 'Democratic'.

[Joe Republic]

I have a bad feeling that Lieberman will pull it out

So do I.

Me too, Lieberman is milking the fact that his "strong on security" ass couldn't secure a webserver for all its worth. If someone other than Lieberman took down the site, they should have realized that this would really help Lieberman.

I'm sorry but does anyone really care about that? Anyone who votes either way based on that needs their head checked out.

So you don't care how secure you are? You support Lamont so I guess you don't, if he had his way Iraq would be destroyed by terrorists and the US would be in more danger than it is now.

Instead of bothering to rip apart this absurd comment, I will simply point out that I was referring to people coming out and voting for or against Liberman based on the fact that his website is down.

The "ripping apart" would be saying I'm wrong and how you're right. Not much that can come out of that.

*sigh*

He was saying that nobody will care about Lieberman's website being down.  He was not talking about his positions on national security.

I despair sometimes.

[Joe Republic]

Lamont            53%
Lieberman       47%

Another nail in the coffin of Democratic moderation.

It's safe to assume than that you supported Specter in 2004?

... and Linc Chafee now?  In fact, which way will you vote (if at all) in the primary, Winfield?

[Joe Republic]

With those cases you should look to see who can win. I'd prefer both their challangers but since they both probably wouldn't win I'd have voted for Specter and Chafee. Lieberman can win if he wins the primary and he can probably win even if he lost, the difference is in that.

In a two-way race between Lamont and Schlesinger, Lamont will still win.  The seat is safely Democratic, so their voters can afford to pick somebody who they feel is more loyal to their party.  If this election was in somewhere like Kansas or Alabama, the Democrats would have to bite the bullet and stick with the more moderate Democrat, or else lose the seat.