The Bull Moose weighs in on the Lieberman victory in Connecticut. And he is having a LOT of fun with it.
Yes, there is justice. Joe took a brave stand by putting country before party. Despite the fevered efforts of the McGovenites with Modems, the sensible voters of Connecticut rejected polarization and partisanship.
Don't believe the pathetic nutroots spin. In August, they engaged in premature triumphalism believing that they vanquished the vital center. One even indicated that he had ominous plans to obliterate the organization that Joe once led. No, they did not need the dreaded establishment. All they needed were their trusted keyboards and their internet access.
Bloviating bloggers had rushed to the Nutmeg State to hop aboard the Lamont bus with laptops in hand. Indeed, the candidate was their creation. He was their central project. And this "people power" populist plutocrat poured millions of his own fortune into the race. While the nutroots are fervent, they are also cheap.
As the Moose used to say in Texas, the nutroots were all hat and no cattle. Alas, the internet emperors wear no clothes! MSM take note. Kos and Sirota are out. Gerstein and Sun are in.
The obvious thing to take away from this election is that the Democrats ran, for the most part, well to the right of the netroots and won on that basis. The center, not the extremes. There is a lesson there for both the left and the right purists.
I think there’s another lesson here for the GOP: Ignore the fundamental principles which animate the Conservative base and the party will not only be adrift without a compass to point the way to victory, it will also come up short when the votes are counted.
We will soon have the information necessary to determine who voted which way and who didn’t vote at all, so it is perhaps too soon to say with any certainty why the GOP was so roundly rejected. I didn’t see it coming, and I’m looking forward to learning a few things, like if the above is on target or not.
PS: Congratulations to the Democrat Party. May they lead the Legislative Branch with wisdom and integrity. And, may the Anerican people have reason to be proud of the Republic.
Joe L a centrist? Is he really? Is that why he was on with Hannity today? With one of the most polarizing,mendacious,partisan hacks in the media who together engaged in the sort of bath house behavior best left unspoken. That centrist?
Joe is all ego,why else would he have run as an independent after he lost the party nomination? He must believe that he and only he can carry the voice of Connecticut. That isn’t a centrist,that’s a republican.See below
(http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006//pages/results/states/CT/S/01/epolls.0.html
VOTE BY PARTY ID
TOTAL Lieberman Lamont Schlesinger
Democrat (38%) 33% 65% 2%
Republican (26%) 70% 8% 21%
Independent (36%) 54% 35% 10%
The results show that 70% of Rs voted for Joe as well as a majority of Is.Had Joe not been the Republican candidate,i.e. in favor of the President’s (failed)policy in Iraq,he would not have garnered so much of the Rs vote.
Centrist? I don’t think so.