From the liberal newspaper of record New York Times to the right-wing National Review to the independent Talk/Talk, everyone's talking about Lamont/Lieberman. Don't forget to vote on the Hankster Mini Poll this week: "Joe Lieberman is running for the Senate as an independent. What do you think of this plan?" (see the sidebar)
New Lieberman Retooling Race as Independent
By PATRICK HEALY and NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
New York Times, August 16, 2006
...“I told Lamont, don’t listen to the right wing saying you can’t win with Sharpton and Jesse Jackson by your side, because you already did win with Sharpton and Jackson with you,” Mr. Sharpton said. “He can’t let the right wing pressure him in subtracting supporters from his side — he has to focus on addition.”
Lieberman aides said that Mr. Lamont’s association with Mr. Sharpton and Mr. Jackson — both of whom campaigned vigorously for Mr. Lamont — was a political albatross that helped explain why Mr. Lieberman believed he could win over a majority of voters.... [more]
The Lieberman Purge
Politics where there shouldn’t be.
By Ted Frank
National Review
...What is perhaps most disturbing about the purge of Lieberman (aside from the virulent anti-Semitism all too present in the fever swamps that are the comment sections of various left-wing blogs) is the use against him of the quote that had so many Lieberman opponents upset, repeated time and time again by left-wing bloggers Glenn Greenwald, Daily Kos, and Atrios: “It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years. And that in matters of war, we undermine presidential credibility at our nation’s peril.”... [more]
The Beat Goes Independent and Center-Left
Talk/Talk
with Jackie Salit and Fred Newman
Sunday, August 13, 2006
...But we have to get into this Connecticut thing and ask the question, What is it that Joe Lieberman is independent of? Because he’s trying to pass himself off as an independent. He’s no independent. Independent doesn’t mean that you talk with people across the aisle. That’s what elected officials are supposed to do to govern. That’s not independent. Independent means having a position independent of partisan politics, it’s a new politic, a new substantive politic and position, as opposed to some of the more reactionary positions of both the Democrats and the Republicans who currently run Washington and run most of the states. That’s what independent means.... [more]
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