CT Dems Who Still Vote For Lieberman... What The HELL Are You Thinking ???

[WillyT]

Poll form Oct 11th.



We've rehashed, over and over, the "political morality" of Joe's not respecting the wishes of his own party's (former party) voters, but just what responsibility to the Democratic Party do Democratic voters in Connecticut have when they vote for the candidate that the republicans support?

The guy on the "left" here!



BACK-STABBER is more like it.

:mad::banghead::mad:

[Frances]

1. If I were in Connecticut, I'd vote for Lamont,

but since I'm in California I will vote for the Democrat Angelides instead of the Gropinator. I don't understand how people can be so blind.

[edwardsfeingold08]

2. I doubt many DUers are voting for Lieberman

[ShaneGR]

3. Unions, Pro-Choice, Pro-Environment

Those three issues are much more important to 20% of Democrats (the % he still has) than Iraq. Simple as that.

[LoZoccolo]

4. Maybe by asking respectfully before the primary...

...a candidate could have been advanced who was anti-war who would appeal to the voters for the same reasons, and would be taking a larger percentage. Or, Lamont's similar qualities could have been magnified. "What the HELL are you thinking?" might be something you can ask on an Internet message board without consequence, but in person it tends to put people in a defensive posture and after that you really can't have a discussion. Now we have:

- a Democratic candidate for whom the race looked difficult both before and after, who will require significantly more funding to leave the seat Democratic than the candidate he displaced in the primary
- an opposing independant candidate who's a net loss to the Democrats due to his criticisms of other Democrats, and must be expensively opposed as a result in order that he not do more damage

I would imagine part of Lieberman's appeal to Republicans was the idea that so many Democrats were saying he was a Republican despite his voting record. I think the nature of the opposition to Lieberman during the primary has helped Lieberman in that regard. Promoting the stance on the war as the most important, or more important issue as compared to the rest of the voting record would have been a primary strategy that would differentiate the candidates; accusing some of being a flat-out Republican would pretty much assure them Republican votes I'd imagine.

I'll note for anyone responding to this: if you think this post is promoting Lieberman, you haven't understood it properly and should read it again slowly with the idea that it's not. If it still doesn't seem that way, maybe this conversation isn't for you; that's ok and there's plenty else you can do for the Democrats.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Think, guys, THINK! How do we reach the Connecticut voter?

Maybe if there was a way for each one of us to send ten personal postcards to ten different Conn. voters who are planning to vote for Lieberman? We could plead with them to take a chance on change.

[beltanefauve]

6. I know you're talking about

Connecticut Dems, but my sister and BIL are Connecticut Repubs who support Lieberman because they seem to think he (and their Congress-critter Rob Simmons) saved their sub base and get their state lots of pork. Not sure if it holds true for Connecticut Dems who still support him, but it might.

[niceypoo]

7. Republicans there are voting for Lieberman

hense his numbers, his district voted him out, hense his becoming a republican.

[upi402]

8. love those moderate dems, huh?

Wadda we want?
"moderation"
Wenda we wannit?
"in due course"
(or not, if that might seem more reasonable to somebody)

Joe is no friend of labor unions, BTW.