Liveblogging Lieberman – Lamont Debate
Allahpundit did a live blog of the debate (I was tied up, sorry). It sounds like Lieberman did well despite the (obviously) pumped-by-the-left poll on MSNBC. Excerpt:
Update: Lamont says he’s got grassroots support. Lieberman says the Democratic Party is and should be what it was in 1960. Now he’s slamming Lamont for calling him insufficiently Democratic when he votes with the left 90% of the time in the Senate. And he says Lamont’s supporters are poisoning the party. Nice. Now he’s telling Lamont, in an angry tone, to stop spreading untruths about his record.
Update: Lieberman accuses Lamont of voting Republican and using Republican campaign aides. Lamont scores a nice point by noting that he’s not the one who’s threatening to run as an independent if he loses the primary. Liebs says Lamont can’t win the general election and he wants the whole population to have a chance to decide. Lamont responds by hitting him on job loss.
Update: Lieberman says Lamont gave him three campaign contributions — after he took the position he did on Iraq.
I’m trying to be objective. Lamont isn’t bad, but Lieberman’s better.
UPDATE: Greg Tinti, blogging at Outside The Beltway, also live blogged and calls it decisively for Lieberman.
Without much reflection, it’s easy to call this debate for Lieberman. Despite his sometimes overzealous aggressiveness, I think anyone listening carefully would agree that Lieberman defeated Lamont handily with those silly little things called facts with which Lamont was curiously light. As far as I could tell, Lamont promised to be the progressive Santa to liberals but didn’t bother mentioning how he planned to accomplish any of his goals. And this played particularly well into Lieberman’s strategy of painting Lamont as a one-issue candidate which, of course, is arguably true.
Blogosphere, Politics | Gaius July 6, 2006
