Why the Left Is Furious at Lieberman; Iraq is only a part

Thanks, Nimh, but while I can the video portion, I can't get the audio part.

I've been holding off getting any new Macromedia Flash upgrades because I don't like to be pestered into doing things.

So all I see is this red sunset on the beach, which is nice.

During the whole silent presentation, in my mind I can hear Grand Funk singing in the background:

I'm getting closer to my home...... (sound of seagulls in background)
I'm getting closer to my home......
I'm getting closer to my home......

<grins>

Didja crank the volume thingie up underneath the vid, next to the timer? Its pretty soft-spoken...

Yes, I did when I tried it. Also checked my mixer settings, since sometimes I mute them. They were on full.

I'll look for the commercial elsewhere on the net-or maybe they'll be showing it soon here. It seems to be keyed for the Labor Day weekend. End of summer at the beach, and all that.

Since this thread is about Senator Lieberman, it is most significant that the Republican running for Governor has increased her lead by eight points just recently.




Connecticut Governor: Rell Lead Widens

Jodi Rell (R) 61%, John DeStefano (D) 31%

August 23, 2006

Republican Governor Jodi Rell Last year some pundits argued that in Democratic-leaning Connecticut, the reelection of even a well-liked Republican incumbent like Governor Jodi Rell could not be taken for granted.

Events do have a way of upending conventional political wisdom. In Connecticut, though, Exhibit A would be the twisty Senate race. However, there are no bumps in the road yet for the Republican Rell, who now leads Democrat John DeStefano 61% to 31% (see crosstabs). For Rell, that's an eight-point jump since our July 20 poll.

DeStefano, who won his party's primary by a whisker, attracts only a plurality of Democrats, 48%, and lags badly with most other groups. With liberals he enjoys only a one-point advantage, leading Rell 46% to 45%.

Rell is viewed favorably by 77%, and most approve of her job performance. DeStefano is viewed favorably by 49%.

While checking around for the Lieberman commercial, (I found out it's been running on TV since Tuesday, but I haven't come across it), some people pointed out an interesting fact. Sunset at the beach might make a picturesque theme for a commercial, but it's rather inappropriate for Connecticut-which is on the Eastern Seaboard!

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Since this thread is about Senator Lieberman, it is most significant that the Republican running for Governor has increased her lead by eight points just recently.




Connecticut Governor: Rell Lead Widens

Jodi Rell (R) 61%, John DeStefano (D) 31%

August 23, 2006

Republican Governor Jodi Rell Last year some pundits argued that in Democratic-leaning Connecticut, the reelection of even a well-liked Republican incumbent like Governor Jodi Rell could not be taken for granted.

Events do have a way of upending conventional political wisdom. In Connecticut, though, Exhibit A would be the twisty Senate race. However, there are no bumps in the road yet for the Republican Rell, who now leads Democrat John DeStefano 61% to 31% (see crosstabs). For Rell, that's an eight-point jump since our July 20 poll.

DeStefano, who won his party's primary by a whisker, attracts only a plurality of Democrats, 48%, and lags badly with most other groups. With liberals he enjoys only a one-point advantage, leading Rell 46% to 45%.

Rell is viewed favorably by 77%, and most approve of her job performance. DeStefano is viewed favorably by 49%.

You already posted that.

I know that I posted it but I was concerned that Keltic Wizened, who knows everything about Connecticut, had missed it somehow!!!

How do you know the background wasn't a sunrise?

You don't get those intense reds in the sky during a sunrise.

Let's get back to the topic of the thread_-

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Since this thread is about Senator Lieberman, it is most significant that the Republican running for Governor has increased her lead by eight points just recently.




Connecticut Governor: Rell Lead Widens

Jodi Rell (R) 61%, John DeStefano (D) 31%

August 23, 2006

Republican Governor Jodi Rell Last year some pundits argued that in Democratic-leaning Connecticut, the reelection of even a well-liked Republican incumbent like Governor Jodi Rell could not be taken for granted.

Events do have a way of upending conventional political wisdom. In Connecticut, though, Exhibit A would be the twisty Senate race. However, there are no bumps in the road yet for the Republican Rell, who now leads Democrat John DeStefano 61% to 31% (see crosstabs). For Rell, that's an eight-point jump since our July 20 poll.

DeStefano, who won his party's primary by a whisker, attracts only a plurality of Democrats, 48%, and lags badly with most other groups. With liberals he enjoys only a one-point advantage, leading Rell 46% to 45%.

Rell is viewed favorably by 77%, and most approve of her job performance. DeStefano is viewed favorably by 49%.

Yeah, let's get back to the topic of the thread-

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Since this thread is about Senator Lieberman, it is most significant that his lead over Lamont was slashed to just two points even more recently.



Connecticut U.S. Senate: Joe 45%, Ned 43%, Alan 6%

August 28, 2006

Joe Lieberman is holding on to a slight lead in Connecticut's United States Senate race, according to the latest poll by Rasmussen Reports. 45 per cent of respondents would vote for the current member of the upper house, who is running as an independent. Democrat Ned Lamont is second with 43 per cent, followed by Republican Alan Schlesinger with six per cent.

A mid-August poll by American Research Group also gave Lieberman a two-point edge over Lamont. [Lieberman 44%, Lamont 42%, Schlesinger 3%]

GOP operatives make new ads for Lieberman
by: Scarce
Sat Sep 02, 2006 at 10:00:20 AM EDT
The NY Times reports that:

Vets for Freedom, will begin sponsoring television commercials early next week for Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, thanking him for his support of the war in Iraq.
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The ads will begin on Wednesday, with the group spending $75,000 to $100,000 for two days' viewing, primarily on cable news stations, but also on network affiliates in Hartford. The group plans to continue the campaign through the election cycle and will probably do another commercial, advisers to the group said.
And who is behind this group?


The group is receiving advice from Taylor Gross, a former White House official; Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard; and the Republican strategist Dan Senor. Mr. Lieberman's former chief of staff, Bill Andresen, is also helping the group, which by law is prohibited from communicating with the campaign. http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3167

Thomas Rick's "Fiasco" notes the collaboration in Feb 02, perhaps earlier, between Lieberman and Wolfowitz in traipsing around to foreign states to get folks all frothing for war with Iraq. Page 36

55,000 Member Union Endorses Lamont

From the Connecticut Post:



And the endorsements just keep rolling in. 55,000 members, 13,000 dues paying retirees with nothing to do but help man phones for the next two months-Lamont is picking up steam for this election just as he picked up steam for the nomination.

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But Lieberman may have one other asset: Lamont.

I don't know whether Lamont planned to surround himself on primary night with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, but that live TV shot during the winner's acceptance speech surely could cost the Democratic nominee some support among Independents. And it certainly reminded Lieberman supporters why their preferred the Senator and needed to work to defeat Lamont.

It is true that Lieberman doesn't have one of the two major party lines on which to run in the fall. But Lowell Weicker didn't have one of those lines either when he won the Nutmeg State's governorship in 1990. Lieberman must run an inherently unconventional campaign if he has any chance of winning. And if he runs a good one, he certainly can win.

Stuart Rothenberg is editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Reporter

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Every thinking voter in Connecticut who saw and will see the photo of Lamont with the scumbags Jackson and Sharpton standing behind him will know that Lamont poses a danger to Connecticut.

Every thinking person knows that Jackson and Sharpton represent a race-card mentality and that if Lamont is depending on their backing, he will certainly endorse those idiocies!!!

That must be why Lieberman has gone down from being up 12% to being up only 2% on Lamont since then..

Lowell Weicker was on the stage with Lamont during his acceptance speech, along with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Expectations that Lieberman will get the "Weicker vote" would appear to be overrated.

An endorsement from a public service union with 55,000 members, along with the endorsement of both teachers' unions and the United Auto Workers-with more endorsements sure to come. Lamont is coming on strong.

KW - I'm not sure if endorsement by labor unions (a new poll shows that labor unions are at their lowest approval rating since 1981) is necessarily a good thing for Lamont. Time will tell.

Sierra:

For a Democrat especially, getting the endorsement of a union is not valued so much because the non-union voters will think, "Oh, the unions like this guy, so he muct be for the working person". Although a little of that probably does happen.

The real value of getting an endorsement from the unions is both campaign contributions, plus the fact that unions send volunteers down to work phones, distribute campaign literature and knock on doors. All the things that have a lot to do with winning elections.

Lamont is the newcomer to statewide politics. The fact that he can get so much union support when Lieberman has been dealing with the unions on a friendly basis for 18 years, shows just how strong his overall support is.

Sierra Song- Keltic Wizard doesn't know what he is talking about!!

Here are the facts---

According to a 2005 study from the Economics Department of Trinity University, ONLY 7.9% of the US PRIVATE workforce is unionized!

The other four and a half percent comes from public sector MOST OF WHOM ARE TEACHERS.

My wife is a teacher. If Keltic Wizard thinks that teachers, AS A GROUP. ARE LEFT WING OR ARE GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THIER UNION, he knows NOTHING about Teachers.

Sierra Song- The AVERAGE teacher salary in Connecticut is $53,962 a year.

MOST OF THOSE TEACHERS ARE FEMALES AND MOST OF THOSE FEMALES ARE MARRIED.

That means that they belong to families whose incomes top 100,000 a year quite easily>

If Keltic Wizard thinks that such a family would vote for a left wing moron like Lamont, he is just a partisan hack!!!