LIEBERMAN GOES FOR THE JUGULAR-- WES CLARK'S

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LIEBERMAN GOES FOR THE JUGULAR-- WES CLARK'S

Found on DownWithTyranny.

Lieberman has no real game plan to win in Connecticut except the Republican one: fear and smear. He has no ground operation to get out the vote and all he can depend on is that a large Republican turn-out for Governor Jodi Rell and the 3 rubber stamp congresscritters he was campaigning against 6 months ago, Nancy Johnson, Rob Simmons and Chris Shays, will accrue to him as well.

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Anyway, it turns out Ned is hardly the only one being smeared by Lieberman these days. Last week he was on a right wing website attacking Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Chris Dodd. I doubt there are any suckers left in Connecticut who think Lieberman has any intention of caucusing with the Democrats if he wins the election in November. He has completely thrown off his disguise and has come out as a full-fledged neocon Republican in all but word; that would come after the election. Today the latest victim of the Lieberman hate and smear messaging is General Wes Clark, an actual Democrat, one who has been all over America campaigning hard and convincingly for other real Democrats, like Jon Tester, Claire McCaskill, Harold Ford, Charlie Brown, Joe Sestak...

If you recall, when they were both running for president in the 2004 Democratic presidential primary, Lieberman turned a debate from fairly collegial to a knife-thrust towards Clark, challenging his loyalty to the Democratic Party. (In retrospect, a perfect tableau for Lieberman's sick, sick politics.) Now Lieberman has told the Journal Inquirer that General Clark is a partisan, name-calling Democrat. Lieberman can only make up his mind about one thing: everyone is wrong and he's right.

So what set off the volatile and desperate Joementum today? Like all reputable Democratic leaders, from Mark Warner, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy to Barack Obama, Barbara Boxer and Al Gore, Wes Clark endorsed Ned. Did he call Joe names? Did his endorsement disparage the reprehensible Republican shill Lieberman has turned himself into? You judge:

This is all in reference to this article:

Wesley Clark offers support to Lamont

Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate who commanded NATO forces in Europe during the conflict in Kosovo, is helping antiwar Democrat Ned Lamont raise money to unseat U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman.

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Standing up to President Bush's failed policy in Iraq, dispensing with self-serving and wishy-washy notions of 'independence,' and pledging to invest in America's future, Ned Lamont is a candidate for Senate who I am proud to endorse," he wrote.

Clark also took a swipe at Lieberman, now running as an independent, saying the senator had "decided to do his best to drag down every Connecticut Democrat's electoral prospects down with him" after "refusing to abide by the results" of the party primary in August. "He continues to provide political cover to President Bush and other local Republicans despite their clearly failed policies," Clark added.

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Lieberman's campaign spokeswoman, Tammy Sun, on Friday dismissed Clark's endorsement of the senator's opponent. "Joe Lieberman is running for Senate because he's trying to change the kind of partisan name-calling apparent in Wes Clark's recent statement supporting Ned Lamont," she said. "This is just more of the same negative attacks from the Lamont campaign."

I guess Joe doesn't think that Democrats should be endorsing Democratic Senate candidates. :shrug: