So there was tinkering with Joe's website, eh? I tried over a few days to make an additional donation to the Landon campaign-and I simply could not make it work! Was there a problem with the Landon site? Was there a bit of tampering there? Anyone else experience the same problem?

Otherwise all you do is contribute to his re-election campaign, by default.

I want to read more about Lamont and his campaign.

Stop feeding that troll.

I will REname all my children Ned. Ned can raise the dead. He will singlehandedly change the entire political landscape of America. I heard he got 18 holes in one the first time he played golf.

Give it up Joe.

You lost. For the good of the party, drop it.

Ed Koch when he lost the democratic primary to David Dinkins. Both men seem to think of themselves rather than their party as being popular. Koch wore his megalomania with pride, but Lieberman is more pernicious. What's worrying is that Koch felt a personal sense of betrayal by the party and has taken jabs at the Dems. What will Joe do, whether or not he's reelected? Will he become a permanent fixture on Fox News, the Democrat turned Independent who berates his party for not being more like him? That's Joementum we don't need.

Let today be the exception. What Joe says and does are no longer important.

"I will continue to offer Connecticut a different path forward. I went into public service to find solutions, not to point fingers. To unite, not to divide. ..."

This sounds so familiar; I think this line has been used before.

Please good people of Connecticut, finish the job and send this guy home.

...Joe, just go away! (With respects to Motley Crue).

ROFL You LOST, Joe. Pack it in already, you egomaniac. You answer to the people, and the people have rejected your moral scolding and Bush-lovin' ways. Oh yeah, and stop calling yourself a MODERATE. You're NOT a moderate, you're a CONSERVATIVE. I'm a moderate and you don't share any of my views, you old creep. Your free ride on the public tit is over. Time to get a real job!

ROFL

Lieberman's narcissism and sense of entitlement have now gone over the edge. The entire affair reminds me of the great Roth satire of Nixon, "Our Gang." Nixon and his henchmen were thoroughly appalled/amazed how ANYONE in the country could possibly oppose them and the essential righteousness of their cause.

Is Lieberman truly that deluded? Or has he just picked up enough Stalinesque political maneuvers from the Bushies to try one last cynical attempt to manipulate the electorate into some sort of scorched-earth campaign. He's the spoiled kid in a sandlot baseball game who's running home with his bat and ball because the other kids won't let him pitch.

Go home, Joe and let the people who can make a change do the heavy lifting.

C'mon folks, I may just be a dumb Minnesotan out here in the hinterlands, but the head-pounding and hand-wringing of Dems and pundits alike about the meaning of this primary is boring me already. My impression is that Ned Lamont is far less important for who he is than for what he represents, which is outrage and exhaustion in the electorate from witnessing our ill-conceived and well-deceived misadventure in Iraq. Lamont is to Iraq what Gene McCarthy was to Vietnam, notice to the elected officials that we're tired and angry about losing American lives in the cause of God-only-knows-what. Like Vietnam, this war has long since become a hopeless quagmire, and the only way we'll get out is by sending messages like Ned Lamont's. Even, I might add, if Joe Lieberman wins the general election.

I really don't see an indy run materializing for Joe, much less being successful. He was a three-term incumbent with a $12 million dollar warchest and 100% name recgonition. The only advantage he didn't have was the support of the voters.

Apparently this is a trivial distinction to Mr. Lieberman, who has decided that the voters just don't know what they're doing and must be scolded and spanked and reminded that they work for HIM, not the other way around. Oh, wait, that doesn't quite sound right to me.

I am sick to death of everyone advising the Democrats to think strategically, tread the middle ground and not upset the apple cart. In other words, don't kick out Joe Lieberman (who's as much a Democrat as Zell Miller), because the Republicans might take back the Connecticut seat if he splits the vote as an independent! Oh, we're afraid to follow you, Bluto! We might get in trouble!

Enough already! If the Dems haven't figured it out by now, let me spell it out: you're in this position, losers of the last 3 elections, because you DIDN'T take a principled stand, DIDN'T reject political bullshit and do what was right, DIDN'T show real leadership and DIDN'T have the balls to drive a stake in the ground and say, "Screw political gamesmanship, we're going to show backbone and fuck what anybody thinks." Idiots, after six years of Bush and the GOP-wrought disasters we've experienced, that's what people want!!!!

So you did the right thing in getting rid of Joe L. Worry about the election when the election comes. Finally, at last, the Democrats might be starting to understand: Americans are sick of politicians. We demand leaders with guts and honor and principles. We don't want Joe Lieberman. And if for some reason enough of us are stuipid enough (again) in November to leave the GOP in control of Congress, we'll keep working it until we take the whole government back in 2008.

Are they afraid he might win? Wouldn't that just mean that he was the most popular among his constituants in CT.

Is it that they are afraid he'll split the vote and put the republican in office? At the moment the poles do not make that case. If anything he is preventing progressive republicans from voting for the republican by running, since clearly that's who his detractors have always said his base was.

Is it that they are afraid that by running as an independent this minor vitory of the blogosphere will be undone, by lieberman winning, and the democrats will realize that bending to irrational elements of your party is a bad thing?

Lots of differnt options available, the republican is not even a factor in current polls, of course that can change, and if it turns out that some one might spoil the election and put the republican in office, I guess we'll just have to see who at the time has the broadest support, in the state of CT, and ask the other guy to graciously step down.

I guess that's the real fear, that when they realize how unelectable Lamont is, they will have to step down or show themselves as the real spoiler.

Time will tell.