Lieberman accuses Lamont of being a closet Republican

[sabra]

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-doublel0709.artjul09,0,7875943.story?coll=hc-headlines-home

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Lieberman, 64, aired a new television commercial accusing Lamont of being a closet Republican who has distorted the incumbent's 18-year record in the Senate. The spot said Lieberman votes with Democrats 90 percent of the time.

[originalpckelly]

1. ROFL!!!

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[geomon666]

20. Ditto

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[goclark]

2. Closet! What is he trying to tell us ~ Joey is slime

and he can hardly talk about anybody being in the closet, pocket of the Republicans.

[smtpgirl]

35. Do I sense that Lieberman is projecting??

[usregimechange]

3. The ACLU's National Freedom Scorecard: Lifetime score: 67%

http://action.aclu.org/site/VoteCenter?congress=109&repId=193&session_num=0&page=legScore

[survivor999]

4. Ah, as opposed to being openly Republican?

LOL!

[Mist]

5. By their projections ye shall know them--this indicates that it's

LIEberman who's the closet Rethug.

[twiterpatted]

6. Lieberman has jumped the shark!!

I would love to see this ad' of a half necked Joe on water skies jumping a shark and giving the thumbs up.

[kentuck]

7. Pot..

Kettle..

[Totally Committed]

8. He did that to Wes constanatly throughout the Primaries, only

he left out the "closet" part. He just fights dirty. That's how Republicans do it... they smear their opponents because they haven't got a decent position on any issue that counts.

Oh, no... poor Joe, he has no scruples. :rofl:

TC

[JNelson6563]

That's because

Ol' Joe is a Rethug at heart and only knows that same tired, old Rethug tactic: Take your biggest fault and project it onto your opponent(s).

I sure hope Lamont beats him. :toast:

Julie

[rocktivity]

9. Rocknation accuses Liberman of being a closet Republican

because he's resorting to the old Republican trick of accusing Lamont of the very thing he's guilty of!

:rofl:
rocknation

[Dinger]

11. Psych 101: Isn't That A Defense Mechanism Called "Projection"?

Just asking. LIEber"man", what a loser. He's desperate, and it shows.

[FuzzyDicePHL]

32. AKA:

"The guilty dog barks the loudest."

[seabeyond]

10. dont know lemont, so wont say not. but,... lieber picked up republican

rove ways in more ways than one. take what you are being accused of and give it to opponent. if that isnt bullshit. throw that in liebermans face. what bullshit

[Maestro]

12. Kettle, black, does this meaning anything to you

Joe? :eyes:

[UTUSN]

13. As opposed to Joementum being an OUT-Repuke? (on certain things) n/t

[partylessinOhio]

14. Now, he's swiftboating Lamont.

[KingFlorez]

15. Joe has a point

There is something very suspicious about Lamont and I'm glad Joe has come out and said something.

[sabra]

18. Do you have link providing more info on your suspicions?

[KingFlorez]

21. Lamont's endorsed by a bitter ex-Republican Lieberman defeated

[LynzM]

26. Who is that?

Got any more info? Thanks.

[KingFlorez]

29. Lowell Weicker

[Gato Moteado]

34. wait a minute!

you're suspicious of lamont because an ex-repub senator from 18 years ago came out in support of him? that's it? is there more?

bill o'reilly, ann coulter, sean hannity, and a host of wingnuts are supporting lieberman, but because a self proclaimed anti-war ex-repub senator says he supports lamont, you're suspicious of him and willing to agree with lieberman's charge that he's a closet repub?

you lost me.

[calico1]

36. Lowell Weiker was a Republican but

he was a Republican of the old 60's kind of Moderate Republican. He is not fond of this Administration by the way or the wingnuts in general.

As for Lamont voting 90% of the time with Republicans, yes he did....on things like repairing potholes and stuff like that where the vote is unanimous. Duh. (The "duh" is meant for Lieberman, not you).

[Beelzebud]

44. I LOVED Lamonts reply in the debate.

"I voted on potholes, in the Senate you vote on principles."

[atreides1]

27. That wasn't the question

The question was do you have a link? Do you?

[KingFlorez]

30. Here

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=5046028&nav=3YeX

[Bob3]

33. And again huh?

Weicker doesn't sound very bitter in this story and he's said he's supporting Lamont because of his stand against the war.
Holy Joe tried in that hideous Yogi Bear and boo boo cartoon ad to suggest Lamont is Weicker's creature but nobody's buying that gibberish.

[atreides1]

37. Thank you

[calico1]

38. Here is a little more information on

Weiker that you might find informative:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Weicker

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"Weicker's tense relations with establishment Republicans may have roots in receiving strong support from President Nixon in his 1970 senate bid, support repaid in the eyes of his critics by a vehement attack on the White House on the Watergate Committee. Later, his relations with the Bush family soured, and the brother of then Vice President Bush (Prescott Bush, Jr.) made a short lived bid to gain the 1982 Republican senate nomination. Finally, conservative animus spilled into overt support for Joe Lieberman in 1988, both from national sources such as National Review, but more importantly, from rank and file Connecticut Republicans irate with Weicker's effort to make the local party more liberal and prevent the nomination of conservatives to state office, and the poor showing of Weicker backed candidates in the 1986 elections."

[Bob3]

31. Huh? Did some one open a bag full of humming birds?

I feel like I'm watching an episode of non-Sequitor theater - First Holy Joe accusing Lamont of being a republican - and now this bizarre addition. Who might the bitter ex-republican be? And what the heck does ex-republican mean?

It is like the room suddedly filled up with humming birds for no reason.

[jsamuel]

40. By that token, Kerry is a closet republican, supported by ex-republican

Max Cleland...

whats your point?

[KingFlorez]

45. There is a difference

With Weicker, he's probably still angry Lieberman defeated him. Plus, Lamont's record has him siding with Republicans 80% of the time.

[jsamuel]

46. nice "talking points" - we both know that town affairs are highly non-part

isan

of course he sided with the Republicans 80% of the time. So did the other Democrats.


And Bush must be a closet Democrat because he was supported by Zell Miller.
And Bush's war must be a closet Democrat war becuase it is supported by Lieberman.

[calico1]

47. Thank you. Well said.

I am thinking this poster is probably not from CT.

[jumpoffdaplanet]

49. You still haven't answered the question

Why is Lamont bad because Weicker supports him, but it's ok that Hannity, Coulter, and O'Reilly support Lie-berman?

[calico1]

54. You would think this poster would be more

concerned that the likes of Hannity, Coulter, Limbaugh, etc. support Lieberman, not to mention that he is the "favorite" Democrat of the Republican party.... more so than the fact that an old time 60's Liberal Republican supports Lamont and that Lamont's votes with Republicans in his town consist of potholes and such, not national policy. Very strange.

[KingFlorez]

55. I don't trust a former Republican

Hannity, Coulter and O'Reilly don't really support Lieberman, they are just making it look like they do because they know how liberals are about Lieberman. Coulter is known for saying things just to make liberals irritated.

[jumpoffdaplanet]

60. Sorry, but that's the kind of spin I expect from Fox News

If it's the ex- part that you don't like about Wierker, you better gird your loins.

Repubs across the country are waking up to the fact bushco has destroyed their party and are leaving that party by switching to Dem.

Look at Kansas.

[AlinPA]

16. Sounds like Karl Rove style- is Rove helping him?

[no_hypocrisy]

17. A classic case of Freudian Projection, doctor . . . . n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. JoeBunkum is outdoing himself in hypocrisy.

No easy task.

[napi21]

22. I watched the debate! es he DID say that! I know when I heard

the 90% story, I tried to find Joe's actual voting record. It's sooo easy to distort a senate voting record to show whatever you want to at the time.

[Greyhound]

28. And, which votes the 10% came from.

Lieberman is but one of the corporate cabal, and they take turns "voting their conscience" to kill any real progress. That way they can all say "we're good Democrats, and sometimes good people occasionally disagree", and the sheeple go back to chewing their cud.

[Marnieworld]

23. I know you are but what am I?

3 term senator and this is the best he can do? Pee-Wee Herman for Senate!

[bdamomma]

24. desperate joe taking desperate measures

[greenbriar]

25. projection thy name is Lieberman

it makes me sick when they take something they do and accuse the dems of doing it

[DinahMoeHum]

39. The only thing possibly "Republican" about Lamont is his family tree

old-money Wall Street roots and all that;
even here there are glaring exceptions: his grand-uncle Corliss Lamont was a famous secular humanist and writer.

BTW, I purposely use quotation marks around the word "Republican", because here I refer to the old-line, "Rockefeller Repubs" which are now a close-to-extinct species amid all the radicals in the 'Puke Party.

So what if Ned Lamont comes from an old-line moneyed Wall Street family? Big deal, so does Howard Dean (aka Howard Brush Dean III) Both gentlemen tried out Wall Street and decided it wasn't for them; so one became an entrepreneur and another a doctor. Nothing wrong with that.

I love the smell of desperation from Joe Lieberman. It smells like victory...for Lamont.

JOE GOTTA GO.

:kick:

[Cameron27]

41. Lieberman suffers from

a rabid case of entitlement and cannot conceive of losing his 18 year Senate seat. I imagine many more dirty tricks, republican style, from this erstwhile democratic senator.

[Beelzebud]

42. Rove tactic. Take your weakness and attack your enemy for it.

[calico1]

43. He is a slug.

To think I voted for the prick once. There are others who feel just as I do.

[Clarkie1]

48. Lamont never answered questions about his political past in the debate

Lieberman several times claimed he had voted Republican in local elections, and had the records to prove. Also, Lamont has refused to release his tax records. And, Lamont never challenged Lieberman's assertion that he voted with Democrats 90% of the time. Lieberman was very effective in the debate, and did make it look like Lamont was distorting his record by acting as if he were Bush. So, I think this will likely be an effective commercial for Lieberman based on what I saw in the debate.

It will be interesting to see if Lamont can mount an effective response. He'll have to do a whole lot better than he did in the debate.

[genieroze]

50. Pot meet kettle, Lieberman is smoking the pot to come up with this crap.

[ladjf]

51. In the past, I would have assumed that this is a joke.But,now

days, anything is possible. Could there be a clearer case of the "pot calling the kettle black"?

[NotGivingUp]

52. Well...Lieberman is proving just how much of a Republican he truly is....

He's doing what Republicans do best...accuse the other guy of what they themselves are guilty of.

[sakabatou]

53. Pot, meet kettle.

[oc2002]

56. Is that all? I thought LIEberman was going to call him a Vampire. lol.

LIEberman, will do and say anything to stay in power..

[LittleClarkie]

57. WHO is doing his ad campaign?

Because they SUCK.

Are these the same people who thought that stupid bear commecial was a good idea?

Gads, they could win it for Lamont all by their damn selves.

[zulchzulu]

58. The more Joementum smears Lamont, the worse he's going to do

I never understood WHY Gore chose this guy as VP...

[lies and propaganda]

59. isnt it ironic...

dont ya think?

[Marr]

61. And Joe pulls yet another move from the Republican playbook.

Accuse your opponent of what you yourself are doing.

[depakid]

62. Lieberman is lying

and hopefully, the people of Connecticut can see through his tactics.

The man DOES NOT vote with the Dems 90% of the time when the votes are broken down and aggregated on an issue by issue basis.

[WCGreen]

63. Lieberman is 64....

Why doesn't he just retire....