Let's not forget Lieberman's last minute "help" to the Kerry camp in 04 (its Newsmax but the quotes are accurate):

Lieberman Praises Bush, Chides Kerry

   Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
    Friday, Oct. 15, 2004

Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman took the unusual step of praising President Bush while chiding John Kerry during a campaign stop in Florida Wednesday.

Lieberman, with just three weeks left before the election, praised Bush strongly for his support of Israel, America's lone democratic ally in the Mid-East.

"We are dealing with a president who's had a record of strong, consistent support for Israel. You can't say otherwise," Lieberman told an audience of 600 near Delray Beach, Fla, the Palm Beach Post reported in editions Thursday.

Lieberman also added that any criticism of Bush vis-à-vis Israel would be "unjustified."

After the speech, the paper said Lieberman spoke to reporters and suggested that "Bush appears to have made inroads with Jewish voters, who voted Democratic by an estimated 4-to-1 margin in 2000."

But Lieberman indicated Kerry's support among Jews may be softer, and he chided the Democratic nominee for not coming out more strongly for Israel.

"And I think John Kerry, to reassure people, has to himself be explicit" rather than having surrogates deliver the message, the Post quoted Lieberman as saying.

Lieberman alluded to worries among Jews about Kerry's position on Israel. Lieberman bluntly revealed that he has asked the Kerry campaign to have John Kerry himself discuss his views on Israel because "only John Kerry can eliminate those doubts."

The Jews that are supporting Lamont will feel energised at being travestied in the piece, won't they?!

But - how reliable is that poll? What's the MOE?

And - the Jewish component of the electorate is only 3%. A 10% margin on a full turnout of Jewish CT Dems is worth perhaps 6-7,000 votes. (Primary turnout won't be anything like full, presumably.) Do Jews vote disproportionately heavily in CT?

The interesting effect would be on gentile CT Dem voters if Joe decides to play the Jew card. (One JTA piece, even if solicited by Joe's team, would hardly constitute playing the Jew card, though.)

They might resent it, they might ignore it, they might treat it as some kind of insider recommendation.

I guess I'm a bad Jew because I can't stand Lieberman.  Mom always told me I would amount to no good.

I totally agree with M. Stoller.  The picture painted by the media is always rightwing, neocon Jews.  In fact, Jews have historically been the solid base in leftwing progressive movements in this country ie. labor, civil rights etc.  Lieberman is a sad representative of our righteous Jewish brothers and sisters!

Progressive Jewish voters are not represented in reports nationwide. The quotes are most often from the "official" Jewish organizations and the most conservative spokespersons.

Michelle Goldberg at salon.com writes that the reports of a "Jewish Lobby" in Washington DC are all focused on the most conservative supporters of the most conservative parties in Israel.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/0 4/18/lobby/index_np.html

Isn't Grossman the guy who bailed out on Howard Dean. Good to see his loyalty to Israel and Lieberman means he has loyalty to something. Why the hell wasn't he in charge of Lieberman's primary campaign?

I have no major problem with Jewish voters having a loyalty of sorts to Israel even if personally, I cannot stand the concept of a religious state - jewish or muslim. It is kind of understandable. My grandfather was a freedom fighter in India against the British and I take pride in that. But I will not support blindly politicians even if they are good for India. It is amazing how the media gave Lieberman a free pass for that ridiculous support for Bush and dissent against Kerry regarding Israel. Kerry is no Pat Buchanan and for Lieberman to do that despite knowing Kerry has done his share, means he is an extremist looking for a politician to pander to Israel first. I have heard talk from Indians about how Clinton's people did a terrible job with India in his first term. ANd then Clinton became this hero to them when he went on that tour. I hear talk about how Bush is good for India. But does that influence my vote? Hell no. It may be a tiebreaker if two candidates are about equal, but the way Lieberman invokes the Israel name is ridiculous, especially when he is an elected representative. I would have given him total leeway if he was a private citizen. But the way Lieberman talks, it is clear he takes it too far. And people are quick to accuse us who criticize Lieberman and are not Jewish of being anti semitic. Well, you read the excerpt in the comments where Lieberman praised Bush over Kerry regarding Israel. Lamont should have mentioned that in the debate when Lieberman talked about how he criticized bush in the past and stuck with the Democrats.

It is amazing how a guy quoted in tht article feels Lamont are no strong enough in catering to Jewish voters. Please. Do they really expect the same kind of attention an old veteran Jewish poliician like Lieberman gave them?  And has LIeberman ever listened to the diversity of Jewish opinion on the middle east?

"I find the behavior of a large segment of the Jewish community to be reprehensible and outrageous," said John Droney, a former chairman of the state party who is advising Lieberman to run as an independent.

Who the f*** asked him to be Moses? Pandering twit.

Thank you , come again. (Biden might get a chuckle out of this).

I am a Jew, and most of my family despises Lieberman.  Most of my family is also anti-Israel, and we resent how many Americans neglect to consider how many Jews in Israel are also anti-Israel.  Assuming all Jews support the project of militaristic state building in the Middle East is a big mistake, especially as the Jewish community is itself heterogenous.  Notice there are Sephardic and Ashkinazi Jews, and notice how Israel is largely comprised of Ashkinazi.  Perhaps everyone should view the films of Amos Gitai, who was exiled from Israel.

But what I particularly resent is how some American Jews who have been duped by neoconservative Jewish rhetoric will refer other Jews who do not support Israel as anti-Semitic.  One person even had the audacity to refer to me as an Islamic sympathizer.  Those who are so quick to make such accusations tend to have no knowledge of Zionism, Middle Eastern history, Jewish diasporas and Western intervention in the establishment of Israel as a state.  They also tend to assume that all Jews must assume the baggage of the Holocaust, which is how they justify violence performed by the Jewish state.  And this constant invocation of the Holocaust is very particular to American Jews: European Jews have a much less hysterical relationship to that event, as does my family, which thankfully escaped the Holocaust as they were either in the Soviet Union or in Algeria.  

In this age of New Social Movements predicated on base fundamentalisms, one must learn to shun the blackmail waged by those who have a very naive view of identity politics.