Lieberman
Posted by Peter W. Schramm
Sen. Chuck Schumer, who controls a $35 million Democratic election fund, didn’t give a dime to help Sen. Joe Lieberman fight back against anti-war challenger Ned Lamont, federal records show. Schumer will not be the only red-faced Democrat when Lieberman is re-elected. Lamont will be lucky to get about 40% of the vote.
8:36 AM / September 7, 2006
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There may yet be practical reasons why Schumer and his fellows are pi**ing on Lieberman. One may not like Schumer (I surely dont), but he is not stupid. I cant divine the antiLieb strategy of the Schumer crowd; can anyone enlighten me?
I have no inside knowledge of Democratic party processes, but it probably isnt necessary in this case.
Schumers support for Lamont is really pretty simple.
One, he and other Democratic senators know (better than the Republican leadership) that it isnt smart to anger your partys main source of energy. And those people support Lamont.
Two, Schumer and most of the party leadership are to the left of Lieberman. Lamont represents their views very well. They would be perfectly happy to see a senator even more liberal than Lieberman.
As for Senate "friendship," its meaningless to true ideologues, and Schumer, I think, is one.
Sen. Lieberman ought to say to Schumer........
Ver derharget, ech hob dir in drerd und kush meer in toches.
Ned Lamont? "A shvarts yor".
Peter:
On those percentages, from your lips to Gods ear and the CT polling places.
You can always fix such voting problems like this.
Such a handy bit of information!
wow, kudos to Dr. Schramm for a gutsy prediction. At first it seemed Lamont would roll, but the liberal energy has really gone out of the campaign. It seems that the left-wing already won by proving they control the Democratic party, so they dont care as much now. With the liberals already feeling vindicated, Lieberman might just hold on.