Monday, August 07, 2006

Joe Lieberman Must Go

If anyone reads this post before tomorrow's CT Democratic primary and she or he lives in CT, please vote for Ned Lamont. This is shaping up to be such an important primary, not just for the people of Connecticut but for the rest of us as well. Who wins tomorrow will definitely impact the direction Democratic candidates everywhere want to take, and the kind of stand they are to take against the Re-THUG-licans. I think Ned Lamont embodies the kind of tough progressive most thinking people want in a candidate, one who openly questions not only the criminal Iraq War but almost every other bad policy of this horrible administration, and demands accountability in Congress. Lieberman has almost singularly defined himself as being the only Democrat in Congress to do everything opposite -- voting for the war, supporting Israel at every turn no matter what they do, voting for the abysmal and cruel Bankruptcy Bill on the heels of Katrina, voting to disallow a fillibuster on Sam Alito for Supreme Court, knowing full well he could be pivotal in overturning Roe vs. Wade, the list goes on and on. He's basically the Republican candidate at this point. And he has the nerve to say Lamont's supporters are vindictive and ruining his anointed Senate seat. And his campaign tactics against Lamont could have been taken right out of Karl Rove's playbook. Need I say more?

Please, if you can tomorrow, volunteer for Lamont's Get Out The Vote campaign, or if you live in CT please please please vote for Lamont. November will look that much brighter if Ned wins.

Thanks.

1 comment:

Jeff said...

well said, jimmy. lieberman has not acted in the best interests of this country (exept in his environmental record - which has been damaged by his other votes) and needs to go.