Down to the wire in CT: Sharpton appears for Lamont, Inouye for Lieberman

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: For Rivals in Connecticut, a Dash to Pick Up Votes
By ANNE E. KORNBLUT
Published: July 31, 2006

With little more than a week left in the nation’s most closely watched primary race, a wave of surrogates swept through Connecticut yesterday to campaign for Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and his antiwar challenger, Ned Lamont, as both candidates turned their focus almost exclusively to winning minority votes.

In a blow to Mr. Lieberman, the Rev. Al Sharpton said he would come to Connecticut this week to appear on behalf of Mr. Lamont, adding more star power to his outsider campaign.

But Mr. Lieberman brought in his own Democratic Party stalwarts, including Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, a decorated war veteran, who tried to defuse the central issue that has left the three-term senator struggling to win his party’s nomination: the war in Iraq.

“I know what war is all about,” said Mr. Inouye, who received the Medal of Honor for his combat service in World War II. “I’ve seen friends shattered, I’ve seen heads being blown off. I am here because I believe Joe Lieberman is a good, good American patriot.

“It pains me to see us become a one-issue party,” he added. “There are many issues, not just the war.”

Recent polling shows Mr. Lieberman, an 18-year incumbent who was the vice-presidential nominee in 2000, locked in a statistical dead heat with Mr. Lamont, a multimillionaire cable executive who is spending his own money to run on a platform of withdrawing American troops from Iraq. Mr. Lieberman voted to authorize the invasion and has been a vocal about seeing it out in the face of antiwar sentiment....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/31/nyregion/31campaign.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Maybe the war is the single biggest issue, Mr. Inouye.

Among all the others Bush has managed to screw up.

[Eric J in MN]

3. I've disliked Jospeh Lieberman since he first ran...

..for the Senate in 1988.

I preferred Republican Lowell Weicker. I was in NY, and so I couldn't vote in CT.

[MarkDevin]

5. OK, I'll admit it. I voted for Lieberman in '88.

All I knew was that Weicker was the Republican and Lieberman was the Democrat. I was still a young man and too unworldly to understand that a politician with a "D" after his name didn't automatically make said politician your friend.

I made up for it, though, by voting for Weicker in Connecticut's 1990 gubernatorial race. His creation of the state income tax notwithstanding, I thought Weicker was a decent governor, certainly better than the criminal who succeeded him (John Rowland)!

[w13rd0]

2. Lieberman just wants everyone to believe...

...it's about that one issue, because otherwise, he'd have to admit from the time of the 2000 Campaign up till now, he's been helping THEM (Bush and the Republicans) more than he's been helping US (the people)...

[LaPera]

4. What's the polls look like-Will the repugs help Lieberman with Diebold

machines...since they fucking own them!!!

[MarkDevin]

6. Thankfully, CT doesn't have Diebold machines.

At least, not yet. :scared:

[LaPera]

8. Thanks MD you put a smile on my face!!!!!

[Stinky The Clown]

7. I'm more and more getting the feeling that Lamont is drawing enthusiastic

endorsers and Holy is getting them out of some form of collegial loyalty.

Man, it must really bite to have such a bad case of NoJoementum.

[TlalocW]

9. Senator Inouye has seen heads blown off?

Well, shit... I'm going to go ahead and vote for Joe then!

What the hell kind of non-sequiter is that? "Hey, everyone! I've seen heads blown off! Now let me bring up the man who is going to win another term in the Senate, Joe Lieberman!" (crickets chirp)

TlalocW