I can see the value of referring to Lieberman as the de facto GOP nominee.  Personally, I'll probably stick to calling him the Lieberman nominee, since that's closer to what he wants to call his party.  

Just say Lieberman (CT-R). It's verbally easier and requires less of the voter to hear than de factor which most people won't know is a latin term meaning 'in fact' rather than de jure 'in law' Lieberman CT R fits as a metaphor and is therefore true on that level.

  ...is what the HELL the national Democrats are waiting for before they tear Lieberman about 10,000 new ones in public.

 Lieberman's public behavior has been disgraceful. He's spent the past week rabidly slandering the Democratic Party and a good chunk of its supporters. He's been acting like a spoiled brat, throwing daily temper tantrums, and just vomiting all over the good name of the Democratic Party.

 And the Democratic leadership is just rolling over and taking it. I fully understand now why they lose.

 My guess is they WANT to lose. I can't come up with any alternative explanation for the Dems' silence. The statute of limitations for a "graceful exit" is OVER. Joe's public reputation, such as it remains, needs to be destroyed.  

This pisses me off so much.

You know, I've been desensitized over the past 6 years. I don't know whether it was 9/11, more likely it was the never-ending shit that came out of this administration, but I've grown to shrug off most of it. "Well, what do you expect?", you know?

This is too fucking far. Too goddamn fucking far. I'm from CT, and I've been damn proud we send two D's to the Senate. I've been embarrassed of Lieberman, I've worked damn hard to defeat him, but I always respected him. He was never close to a fucking Bush. Until Now.

Callin your opponent a commie? Bringing in Swift Boat vets? Fucking Battle of Ted's? My god, this man is an asshole among assholes, and he's MY SENATOR!!! And normally I'd be venting this into working for Lamont, but right now the campaign's reorganizing and there isn't much to do, and I'm just sitting here ranting, fuming, saddned and pissed that it's come to this.

Why did you have go this low? I thought you were better than this, Senator Lieberman. Fucking A, why?

That's it. No more cutesy "JoMo". From now on he's Lieberscum.

Or, since the GOP is now funding him, how about Mean Joe "Green"?

Gotterdammerung

Why is the Democrat leadership so reluctant to throw J.L. out of the party and strip him of his committee memberships-even if he wins as a so-called "independent?"

Speakers of German will recognize that the "ö" o-umlaut can be spelled alternately as "oe" in most cases.  I propose this word into the lexicon of liberal and progressive activism for the next 3 months and beyond.

Lieberman should be thrown under the train by the Democratic Party - and hard. I'll be giving Harry Reid's office a call tomorrow morning during my lunch break.

So if Loserman manages to win in November, we can expect him to switch parties and become the R that he's acting like, right?

Anyone who believes that LeiberPub will caucus with Democrats if he wins in Nov. is drinking way too much Koolaid. We all need to start pointing that out now, loudly and often. This man wasn't a Democrat when he had a D after his name; he sure isn't going to be one with an I. If it comes down 49 to 49, LeiberPub will for sure give it the bad people.

I'm beginning to wonder if we'll be seeing Joe on the Republican ticket in 2008...

BTW, Lieberman::Democrats = Blair :: Labour

The value of Lieberman to Republicans is not so much that he works with them overtly, but that he works against Democrats consistently.  Provided the Republicans maintain a majority in the Senate, it is far more useful for them to have a bull wrecking the Dem china shop than to have an extra, unneeded GOP Senator.  

Lieberman prevents the Democrats from having a unified message on anything.  Even on a fundamental issue like Social Security, Lieberman cannot help but weaken the Democratic position.  Small wonder that the Republicans want to keep him in the Senate.  

He'll lose anyway, but this isn't going to be easy.

I was going to post a comment to the effect "why is the Democratic party still being nice to this guy? He should be stripped of all his committees forthwith, and attacked as any dangerous opponent of the Democratic candidate should be."

Then, as I was about to write this, I realised Reid still has all his options open at this point. He may hope to persuade Lieberman to step down and endorse Lamont, but if Lieberman doesn't, then Reid has plenty of time to disinherit him, and put ads throughout Connecticut informing the voters that Lieberman is not the Democratic candidate for Senate any more, but a Republican-backed spoiler candidate.

"The Kiss" would no longer be just a float driven by a Daily Kos subscriber, but the official Democratic condemnation of the former Senator from Connecticut. If the Democrats can disown their own for corruption, they can sure as hell disown their own for links with the Party of Abramoff. Given Bush's amazing unpopularity (the GOP could only dream of Clinton's numbers going so low, when they were trumpeting the "failed" presidency of the "unpopular" Clinton), then Lieberman's personal ties with him are pure electoral poison, the path to a D=55% I=25% R=20% victory for Lamont.

And it's all still available to Reid.

Bruce Bialosky?  Would he be married to Betty Jo, by any chance?

I've thought all along that Joe Lieberman was going to jump to Republicans and even before Ned Lamont entered the race said that Connecticut Democrats should pin him down and promise that he would either not jump parties or force him to promise that he would vacate the seat if he did.

If the liar is still calling himself a Democrat in this general election this is something that now any Connecticut voter has a right to pin him down on.  

Connecticut voters, ask Joe "soi disant Democrat" Lieberman to promise not to join the Republican Party if he is elected as a "Democrat" or to promise to vacate the seat if he jumps parties.  The Democratic leadership in the Senate has done the traitor a huge favor by not stripping him of his seniority.  What? He's not required to pledge his loyalty to the party he insists he's still a part of even as he stabs us in the back?  

Just how much in his favor are we all supposed bend reality?

How smart is it for Lieberman to diss Maxine Waters?  I assume that this will not go down well in the African-American community, which I guess he is kissing goodbye.

Let's just assume that Lieberman will switch parties and become the official candidate. The current GOP candidate (who even knows his name) will drop out. What then?

Judging by how close the primary was and the fact that the GOP will throw a lot of money at Lieberman, and his high name recognition and long history of bring home the bacon for his state, it seems most likely that he will win the election.

Planning should be taking place now on how to deal with a two way race.

Lieberman cannot win if he loses the rank and file Democrats.  It must be clear by now that he is not a Democrat. The Democrats have not deserted him. He has deserted the Democrats. His parroting of Republican Talking Points is beyond the pale. The national party must take a stand because he is the one betraying the party. Its time for all of us to call him for what he is " a Traitor"  Yes, that it: "Traitor Joe".  

Note the Big Dog weighs in against Leiberman today (8/15/06).  I say add Cheney and Rove to "The Kiss" float asap.

Schlesinger's website is offline, BTW.

Maybe we should accuse Republican/Lieberman hackers?

"Race Hustlers"?  Never heard that term before reading it in the Waterbury Republican-American, but now that I've googled it, I've learned that it's a favored pejorative on the right to describe civil rights leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Looks like Joe's got a lock on the Archie Bunker vote.

Calm down. Lieberman --  senatorial  nominee  of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party, a  lucky thing for Joe that his new party chose him(!)  otherwise how embarrassing(!!) -- is campaigning  against Bernie Sanders, canidate for Senate in VERMONT.

Apparently, Lieberman has come to realize it's a bad idea to campaign against anyone in his own state, unless they are a commie. So he's going against the candidate in Vermont!

So let me get this straight. Lieberman is being backed by Rove. Connecticut for Lieberman is running against the guy in Vermont, and Lamont is being advised by Karl Marx, a dead guy.

Must lie down, take meds.

Be interesting to hear his opinion. It might even show a very Lieberman perspective on things and people. Or even an embaressing inability to even address the question.

He would be another disaster.

I would not be surprised if Akaka and Sanders have endorsed and even possibily done some "stumping" for each other.

I would speculate that in the Hawaii Democratic membership being associated with future Sen. Sander I-Vermont is the choice of being associated with forcibly retired ( will get beat twice in the same year for the same office) now independent ( rethuglican in fact) Sen. Lieberman.