Time Is Running Out -- Let's Set The Record Straight

In all likelihood, the winner of the Democratic Party's early presidential primaries will turn out to be the winner of the current battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. And the general expectation seems to be that the earliest primaries
may well decide the final result.

Although the 2006 general elections resulted in the Democrats' gain of a one-vote majority in the Senate --  this gain was more then offset by  the ultimate cost of rewarding  the Republicans' all-time  favorite Democrat, Joe Lieberman, with the post of Chairman of the Senate Committee for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

This should come as no surprise, with the choice between "pygmies" the GOP is now looking for its savior de jour.  Romney was supposed to be the savior, but he's too phoney.  Guiliani is well, too Guiliani, and Thompson is apparently either too dumb, too liberal (he was a lobbyist for abortion rights) or not a good enough fundraiser.  The other candidates are just plain crazy.

With the GOP banner in tatters, and the best candidate (Schwarzeneger) being constitutionally unavailable to run, the only place for conservatives to go is outside of the party.  Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the latest GOP savior:

Joseph Lieberman.

The Lamont loss has made MLN very afraid of reasoned debate. Branford Boy and the crew @ MLN have prevented those who disagree with them from joining the debate over at the blog. I came over to MY DD to tell the story.

Here are some reasons for the loss:

We have all been following the ST-Sen race with a certain sense of baited breath.  He stepped over certain lines when he started using talking points from Karl Rove, and has made it very clear that he is going to be a very independent vote in the Senate if he wins.  To me that is code for continuing his Neo-Con agenda.

You have seen the latest polling, showing Lieberman up, 49-37-8.  That looks like a race out of the margin of error and GOTV, but I think it will be a very close one tomorrow and possibly even a victory for Lamont, and I'll tell you why.

Party Loyalty and Ballot Placement.

I don't hate Lieberman as much as Matt Stoller does only because I'm 3,000 miles further away from him right now. But I hate him enough.

I cried when McGovern lost, even though I didn't cry when my father, mother, and only brother subsequently died. They loved Roosevelt, Stevenson, and McGovern as well, and those election day tears went for them as well, I guess.

But the Lamont Campaign, like the McGovern Campaign before it, can change America. The Lamont alumni will play similarly important roles in the future of our party as the Dean alumni, from Dean on down, already are.

WARNING: this diary suggests a possible course of action that may be offensive. It includes a tactic which some may consider unethical.

If I were organizing a vote buying scheme in Connecticut this is how I would do it.

The candidate would never discuss it explicitly with the campaign manager. To the extent the candidate had to be in the loop the project would get a code name like, "Teaching Lamont Politics Old School".

The campaign manager would then recruit some old political hand that had close ties to the candidate--more importantly someone who was perceived as having the candidates ear. This old political hand would almost assuredly be a local who knew the players on the ground. He would be the one to solicit lieutenants in the vote buying scheme.

This diary is crossposted from Daily Kos. It is a close reading of the two TV ads posted last night in the Kos FP story, "Lamont's Closers" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/1/ 191933/012(and also posted here at MyDD). The ad showing the kid reading the names of the war dead is referred to as the "first ad" and the "car crash" ad is referred to as the second ad.

These are great ads. This is a different kind of "narrative" ad Ned could have used earlier, and their texture and subtlety deserves close analysis.

Didn't see any mention of this:

WNBC: Lamont Narrows Gap In Connecticut Senate Race