A political earthquake?

[kentuck]

Many politicians are contorting themselves into all sorts of positions in attempting to explain how bad a Lieberman defeat would be. Newt Gingrich, fearful that his prediction of a Third World War may not come true, says this would be a victory for the "cut and runners". A few Democrats have made the journey to CT to stand behind Joe Lieberman, most notably Bill Clinton.

First of all, Joe Lieberman is more of a Republican "problem" than a Democratic one. Joe Lieberman is in trouble for the same reasons Rick Santorum and Conrad Burns are in trouble. They have suppported this disaster of an Administration. People are disgusted with George W Bush - including many Republicans.

The Republican caucus must be thinking twice about their meeting with Karl Rove and the White House, where they agreed to support their President on the "war". In hindsight, they must feel like they have been flim-flammed? If there is an earthquake coming, it will most likely be in the Republican Party - not with Joe Lieberman and the Democrats.

[bryant69]

1. I think Lamont will have reprecussions in the Republican world

But they are will amount to little compared to the reprecussions of either losing or holding on to the House and/or Senate.

Bryant
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[rocktivity]

2. What's wrong with cutting and running from ANYONE

who's supposed to serve your purposes but isn't? And what's RIGHT with Democrats taking politcal advice from Republicans?

:crazy:
rocknation

[cspanlovr]

3. No one has damaged the Repub Party as much as bush$co. They

can blame their so-called leaders when they go down in flames. Wait! Can't do that! Blame Democrats! Yea, that's the ticket!

[SheilaT]

4. Never forget

that the cabal in power is determined to remain in power.

Here are some crucial questions to be asking:

If Lamont actually wins the primary tomorrow, will the Republicans throw in a lot of money and support to the Republican candidate?

Will they throw money and support to an independent Lieberman campaign?

Will an independent Lieberman campaign pull enough Democratic votes from Lamont to insure the Republican wins in November?

Here in Kansas big conservative money, mainly in the form of Kansas Club for Growth put a lot of money into a Kansas State House campaign to defeat in incumbent moderate Republican. There's a Democrat running in the district in question (the House 16th) and the ousted Republican has indicated a willingness to help the Democrat. But the Democrat is understandably very cash poor, so it's impossible to know at this point if all the moderate Republicans will be willing to vote for him. Hopefully, yes.

In Connecticut there are similar issues about who will be willing to vote for whom come November.

Plus, keep in mind that at this point we can't really know how the final weeks of the election campaign will play out. Not to mention the Diebold machines, the lack of adequate exit polling, and the laziness of the main-stream media and we'll have no good way of checking up on "anomalous" results that keep or put Republicans in power.