sure, Lamont is a"Corporatocrat" -

That is why Ned Lamont's platform calls for complete government campaign financing, which will be the best (and only) way to cleanse our govt from the current way that the corporations get our congressional representatives like Joe Lieberman to whore for the corporations in exchange for corporate campaign contributions -

surely you can't be thinking that Ned Lamont's little 60-person cable TV company is some sort of evil corporate behemoth, so, as the poster asks, exactly what ARE you smoking?

either you are very high, or you are a Green who loves losing on principle.

yeah, that's it, you are a Green Naderite; you are the kind of space cadet that self-righteously allowed, on principle, for the cheney/bush crime family in 2000 to sneak in and rape this country for the benefit of the corporations that you so despise.

you stupid chump; you disgust me. you are as responsible for the crimes of cheney/bush as bush and cheney themselves.

what we have here is obviously illegal disruptive brown-shirt-like tactics by the lieberman campaign, likely some sort of warped response by the lieberman campaign to the kiss mobile, which embarrases joe, but which disrupts nothing and which does nothing illegal -

ned needs to rent a CT state trooper to accompany him at all his events from now on, period -

the flashing of just one CT state trooper hat & badge will shut up these lieberman brown shirters pronto -

ned can just tell his audiences & the media that the state trooper is there because several people wearing lieberman shirts have attempted to disrupt his meetups -

several outright illegalities seem to have been already committed here by joe's brown shirters; you cannot legally disrupt a conversation by standing next to the conversers and yell & scream; that is a form of assault, which is a criminal act -

"Tim Tagaris has more at the Ned Lamont blog"

I see NOTHING new there at all!

what is the latest count totals?

I think that Lamont just went over 241!

"The count is at:  399-200"

thank you; great work!

it seems that Hartford may be the only town that delivers a block for joementum, that and Nancy Dinardo's Trumbull -

we always knew that perez was a real dirty machine player and that he was going to deliver most of Hartford for Lieberman, but hey, this is a hollow victory for Joe, as Hartford has only 54 delegates out of 1,607 -

this block crap really should be made illegal, however -

it will be nice when we get out of this machine-powered convention phase, and get into the people-powered primary phase of the contest -

nevertheless, I applaud & cheer on the good Dem delegates beyond Trumbull and Hartford that are gonna give Ned the 15% at the convention -

re the danbury DTC meeting -

good work!

was there some sort of deliberate attempt there to not invite Lamont people?

"Meanwhile, there are vulnerable Republican seats in MT, MO, OH, PA, TN, AZ, VA etc. Taking on annoying Democrats is fine, but where's the focus on taking back Congress?"

the simple, practical answer to your question is that the DNC, the DCCC (Emmanuel), and the DSCC (Schumer) have the responsiblity to address your above concerns -

since the DNC, the DCCC, and the DSCC will not help a Ned Lamont or a Marcy Winograd, the NETROOTS must step in aggressively to do that -

also, this blog is not the DNC/DCCC/DSCC blog; this is a NETROOTS blog, a big difference.

makes sense to me.

JP,

LIEBERMAN HIMSELF FEARS THE PROGRESSIVE DEMS who dominate Connecticut's closed primaries, don't you get it yet?

We already saw Lieberman run away from them in 2004!

Don't you get it?

If, I say IF Lieberman does not run away from a 2006 primary with Lamont, then Lieberman will lose to Lamont in such, which is why you probably will NOT even see Lieberman run in a 2006 primary with Lamont!

In this thread,

howardpark said:

"I still have to believe, however, that Lieberman is a huge favorite in a Dem primary"

and ColoDem said:

"Tell me where Lamont gets 50% of the vote on primary day"

and JPhurst said:

"When Lieberman wins the primary by a comfortable margin"

Fellas, I am a lifelong resident of Connecticut, and I came here to tell you that

LIEBERMAN IS V-E-R-Y AFRAID OF A PRIMARY WITH LAMONT!

And, here is how & why I can say that with confidence:

I took special note back in 2004 of the particular timing of when Lieberman dropped out of the 2004 Democratic presidential primary race, a timing which happened to be just before Connecticut was itself to have its own Democratic presidential primary.

Now, why do you suppose that Lieberman, being a Connecticut favorite son and all, did not at least run in the 2004 Connecticut Democratic presidential primary for ha-ha's to at least accrue all the local political capital and local glory that a native son typically gets doing such?

Well, I strongly believe that Lieberman strategically avoided running in the 2004 Connecticut Democratic presidential primary because Lieberman had concluded that he would have LOST BADLY in such and that he would have thus been profoundly humiliated in and by his own native son state!

You see, Lieberman already knew back in 2004 that because of his nutcase pro-Bush hawkish Iraq war position that he was already dogmeat with the progressive Connecticut Democrats that typically dominate Connecticut's Democratic primaries, in which only registered Democrats can participate.

Now, if back in 2004 Lieberman already knew that he was dogmeat with the Connecticut Democratic primary-voting base enough to scare him out of running in the 2004 Connecticut Democratic presidential primary as a native son, you can just imagine how much MORE Lieberman fears that same progressive Connecticut Democratic primary-voting base now in 2006!

So, despite all the haughty talk by the pro-Lieberman types, I really think that Lieberman already believes and fears that he will LOSE to Lamont in a Connecticut Democratic senatorial primary in 2006, just like Lieberman feared losing in the Connecticut Democratic presidential primary back in 2004!

So, the question therefore is, in 2006 will Lieberman be a coward AGAIN and run away AGAIN from a Connecticut Democratic primary, just like the coward he was back in 2004 when Lieberman dropped out just in time to avoid the 2004 Connecticut Democratic presidential primary?

I say, if Lieberman did it in 2004, he can certainly do it again in 2006.