Not Ready For Prime Time

I wrote these words earlier today: Naive amateurs wrapped in self-righteousness powered and funded by the far left. I was describing the victory of Ned Lamont and it's long term implications for the Democratic party. I wrote those words before I read about what Lamont's campaign manager had to say about the city of Waterbury, Connecticut after it voted heavily for Joe Lieberman. Campaign manager Tom Swan described Waterbury "as a place "where the forces of slime meet the forces of evil."

WATERBURY, Conn. - Democrat Ned Lamont's campaign manager said he would apologize to the mayor of Waterbury for describing the city that backed his opponent, Sen. Joe Lieberman, as a place "where the forces of slime meet the forces of evil."

Tom Swan said the comment made Tuesday, after the city voted heavily for Lieberman in the Democratic Senate primary, was in the context of a broader discussion of state politics in which former Mayor Philip A. Giordano was the "slime" and former Gov. John G. Rowland was the "evil."

Giordano is serving a prison sentence on federal child sex charges and Rowland, a Waterbury native, was forced to resign in 2004 and served a federal prison term for corruption.

Swan said that his statement was not meant to be reflective of the city and that he would send an apology Friday to Mayor Michael J. Jarjura.

Welcome to the real world, not that place of the extreme left where that kind of talk is routine. I'd say Lamont has lost Waterbury permanently at this point.