Maxine Waters is going to Connecticut to campaign for Ned Lamont

[Renew Deal]

I am attending Democracy Fest. Last night Maxine Waters spoke and said that she was going to go to Connecticut to campaign for Ned Lamont because Lieberman is "the posterboy for everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party." She said that she will likely be punished and scorned by the party, but she feels it's her duty. She was an outstanding, informed speaker and was truly inspirationsal.

Maxine Waters receiving the well earned Backbone Award.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

1. Good for her.

:thumbsup:

Nice to see more national support!

[KingFlorez]

2. She's gone crazy

She'll be sorry if Lamont is elected and shows just what a Republican he really is.

[Renew Deal]

3. The Lieberman defenders are crazy.

Lieberman is a proven Republican. Maxine Waters is a visionary.

[KingFlorez]

8. Lieberman isn't a Republican

His record is very liberal on most issues. Compare that with Lamont who voted with Republicans 80% of the time.

[Renew Deal]

10. Ned Lamont cannot be anymore Republican than Lieberman

has shown himself to be. Are you one of the war lovers?

[KingFlorez]

11. No, I hate the war

But we don't know this Lamont person and the fact he voted with Republicans 80% of the time once is very suspect.

[Renew Deal]

12. We know Lieberman

and many are ready to throw him out. If Lamont is anything like Lieberman, throw him out too, but Lieberman has already showed his republican stripes.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

13. On LOCAL issues!

I'd rather have a Democrat who agrees with Republicans on matters of the logistics of repairing potholes than one who agrees with Republicans on matters of misplaced foreign policy where thousands DIE!

[Renew Deal]

15. Republicans good on Potholes

Guiliani and Bloomberg both were/are. Others, not so good.

[KingFlorez]

16. It's more than that

They have to have voted on more than potholes. I have never heard of a real Democrat voting with the GOP 80% of the time, even in local areas.

[Renew Deal]

17. I have never heard of a real Democrat abondoning the party if it

rejects him.

[KingFlorez]

25. He's trying to keep Democrats from losing the seat

If Lamont wins, the first thing he'll do is vote for Mitch McConnell as majority leader.

[Renew Deal]

28. Bullshit

but you already knew that.

[KingFlorez]

32. It's not

Mark my words, if Lamont is elected he's going to end of doing something worse than Lieberman ever did

[Renew Deal]

33. ohhh scary

:eyes:

[CTyankee]

48. Where do you get such ludicrous thoughts?

Please resume taking your meds.

[ClassWarrior]

37. Did you see?? He has a swastika tattooed onto the back of his left hand!!

We're DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!

(This one-act play courtesy of the DUDQ.)

~bowing profusely~

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

44. Cool. Let's pull back the curtain on that level of Republicon corruption!!

I can see it now...

Ned Lamont wins the Senate seat from Connecticut on a mainstream Democratic backlash against DINOs. And on his first day in office, he votes for a hard-right wingnut as Senate Majority Leader.

I'd LOVE for the public to see that naked a power grab by these criminals!! Bring it ON!!!

NGU.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

20. He's what local Greenwich Republicans said:

snip

...Lieberman repeatedly tried to paint Lamont with a Republican brush, saying he voted consistently with the Republicans more than 15 years ago as the only Democrat on the three-member Greenwich board of selectmen.

But Greenwich Republicans do not consider Lamont to be one of their own.

Lamont was never known for intense partisanship in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a selectman and then as a finance board member, the Republicans say, where votes were on strictly local issues, rather than hot-button topics such as Iraq, abortion or the death penalty.

"Most of the stuff we dealt with was the mundane stuff - parking signs, roads," said Republican John B. Margenot, who served as first selectman when Lamont was on the board. "There were no Democratic principles involved or Republican principles. I think it's kind of spurious that Lieberman raises the issue. It's a non-issue."

When asked if he viewed Lamont as a Republican, Margenot replied, "No, I wouldn't think that at all. He was more like a liberal Democrat."


snip

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ctsenate0708.artjul08,0,3113695.story

[KingFlorez]

27. Doesn't sound good to me

"Lamont was never known for intense partisanship in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a selectman and then as a finance board member"

That sentence right here says he's not the liberal he makes himself out to be.

[Renew Deal]

29. But you support Lieberman.

Ummmm, sense any irony?

[KingFlorez]

35. Lieberman doesn't support the Republicans on every issue like Lamont

So, no irony there

[Renew Deal]

38. Please share the list of issues

Go ahead. You haven't backed up that statement once yet.

[KingFlorez]

40. Like I said, he voted 80% with Republicans

Not all of that could have been votes on potholes.

[Renew Deal]

45. So the Republicans voted with Lamont 80% of the time.

The Republican party must hate those RINO's.

BTW, obviously you have nothing to back up your assertion.

[Bjorn Against]

50. So what were the votes on?

If you can list some issues besides potholes please do. If not then you don't have much of an argument.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

43. A fiscal moderate on local issues?

So what? As opposed to Neo-Con, whacked-out, PNAC Foreign policy extremism. As opposed to being the only Democrat to vote on Bush's energy bill. As opposed to his stance on Alito. I'll take a fiscal moderate on local issues over someone so opposed to my core values as a Democrat (and being a CT Democrat, I actually get to vote in the primary).

You conveniently left out the part about being considered a liberal Democrat by those he served with.

[Justice Is Comin]

19. Show me a picture where Lamont is kissing Bush.

Christ, they wanted to make him Secretary of Defense in the Bush cabal. Pu-lease.

[Renew Deal]

21. Or get me some audio where Lamont is soliciting support from Hannity.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

23. Mark my words.

Meet Faux News upcoming "Liberal" commentator:

[KingFlorez]

22. Nonsense

[Renew Deal]

30. OK

http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=407

Hannity:I need to know, do you want my endorsement?

Lieberman: Well, it's good that you asked me in private like this . I appreciate your friendship and I appreciate your support.

Hannity: If you want me to do it, then I'll do it.

Lieberman than requested that Hannity endorse his primary challenger, in a joking manner.

[KingFlorez]

34. Still nonsense

I don't see how he was soliciting anything

[CTyankee]

47. I'm amazed that you believe that misleading talking point

Ned voted with a town council that had lots of Republicans. He often got the REpublicans to vote with HIM. Joe has twisted that voting record in a very sleazy way. I'm not surprised, tho.

[JanusAscending]

51. Unlike some here, I live in Ct., and I'm getting all the "Rovian"

mail from Joementum, and I don't believe everything I read. You should see some of the dirty crap and propeganda he's sending out! You go ahead miz Maxine, you go girl, and I for one will have your back. One of few who have one!!

[calico1]

7. Right....

Why campaign for Lamont when CT has such a strong, LOYAL Democrat? :eyes:

[skipos]

31. How come neocons like Hannity, Coulter and O'Reilly have endorsed Joe?

I'd like to know your answer to that.

Weicker is no neocon, and he has endorsed Lamont because he is against the war.

[KingFlorez]

36. They never endorsed him

And if they have said they liked him, they only did so because they know some people will fall for what they say.

[ClassWarrior]

41. Sean Hannity vs. Maxine Waters. 'Nuff said.

NGU.

[skipos]

42. Why did Hannity WANT to endorse him?

OReilly and COulter didn't realy endorse him, but yhy do they like him so much?

Sammon: So people like Lieberman are getting squeezed out and he's thinking about running as an Independent now because there's no room for him in the moderate Democratic Party...

O'Reilly: He shouldn't.

-----

COULTER: No. I would admire a politician, not as much as basically your run of the mill garden-variety Republican, but as far as Democrats go I like Lieberman, who apparently does want to defend America and fight the war on terrorism. He is the one facing a primary fight.

CAVUTO: You know, there is talk about him maybe bolting to a third party. The seeds are there for a third party movement. Do you buy that?

COULTER: I think he should come all the way and become a Republican. He wouldn’t be our best Republican but at least he’d fit in with the party that wants to defend the country.

-----

Hannity:I need to know, do you want my endorsement?

Lieberman: Well, it's good that you asked me in private like this . I appreciate your friendship and I appreciate your support.

Hannity: If you want me to do it, then I'll do it.

[Pachamama]

46. No, I'd think Maxine was crazy if she was in CT campaigning for Joe!

I don't think she or anyone except for Joe Lieberman, the Bush Administration and the GOPers will be sorry if Lamont is elected.

[JerseygirlCT]

49. You know I hear this talking point all the time

along with the absurd Lieberman mailer.

But where are the facts?

He voted the same way as local Republicans on local issues concerning potholes and traffic lights? You can as easily say the Republicans voted with him. Last I knew, there isn't a plank in the Democratic Party platform pertaining to issues like that.

So where's the substance of these claims?

I'm actually listening. But so far, all I've gotten from Lieberman (in several mailers recently) is more of this. They really rather insult one's intelligence, I have to say.

Give me facts, and I'll listen.

[itzamirakul]

4. She certainly is very brave. The Lieberman Party is going to

try to make her life miserable from now on. They will work triply hard to get her replaced in her next election.

[Theres-a]

5. Good news

Thanks!

[Judi Lynn]

6. So glad to hear this! She has always been serious about her actions,

never really out to be popular, anyway, but rather RIGHT.

You may remember she was the one who used to attract all the flack from the Republican rightwingnuts. They hate her, still, but they've gone on to newer Democratic members to loathe even more.

Isn't it great to know she's right in step with her principles, come what may? Just NOT LIKE a Republican!

[EFerrari]

9. How do you fit all that sand into such a small package.

Good for her.

[Cha]

14. Great! Maxine can

help on the GOTV on August 8th!

[The Count]

18. "Posterboy for everything that's wrong with the Dem Party"

How wonderfully said!
As for backbone award - she always deserved it - she's one of the Florida 14 for starters.
But my favorite moment of Maxine was on the now defunct show The Spin Room, when Tucker tried to extract a ompliment from her:
"Isn't there ANYTHING that Bush did that you aprove of?"
She looked at him at something she stepped in and said: "I can't think of any"
She is the opposite of Joementum.

[Justice Is Comin]

24. That woman has class!

Blue star, five star, golden star class.

[ClassWarrior]

39. She does. I once had the honor to meet her.

A truly wonderful person. And a real hero.

NGU.

[BillZBubb]

26. That's great news.

Maxine could have some resonance with African American voters. Pulling them to Lamont would be devastating to Holy Joe.