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49. Thanks to our primary of Lieberman in 2006 we now have a good Democrat in his stead

Chris Murphy would NEVER have challenged Joe Lieberman in 2012 if we had not primaried him in 2006.

In 2006 Lieberman still had enough support among Unaffiliated Party voters to win the GE, but after 3-6 months of winning re-election, Lieberman's approval among Unaffiliated Party voters dropped and he ended up in Dubya approval ratings territory - low 30%.

Lieberman never recovered and that is why he chose not to run for re-election. Being forced out of the Democratic Party was key to him choosing to retire. He would not have had any access to the Party's infrastructure to mount a re-election campaign against a young and energetic Chris Murphy.

DEPRIVING Lieberman of Party infrastructure support was key to getting him out of the Senate for good.

And Lieberman not being in the Senate since has deprived Republicans of a PR foil to whack against Democrats. Democrats are more united now because Lieberman is not there to muck things up.

As far as the public option and Medicare for 55, Obama is more at fault than those of us who voted with our dollars, our spare time and our votes to primary Lieberman and oust him from the Democratic Party.