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While so many former Lieberman supporters are now with Lamont it not surprising to see Rove backing his favorite former Democrat.

However, check CT Law, if Schlesinger drops out it is very easy for the CRP ExComm to put Lieberman on the ballot -- even in the final week or two.

Joe,

You are embarassing yourself and your party.

Bow out gracefully like a man.

Let it go Joe.

Joe's been running a Karl Rove campaign all along...

attack lamont for hurting the party when Joe's the one who will endanger the house seats!

Is this like a joke?

OR...Lieberman could do the right thing, respect the wishes of Connecticut's Democratic voters, and bow out gracefully by abandoning this stupid idea of an independent run. Unfortunately Holy Joe can't see past his own self-importance and will desperately cling to power at any cost. Pathetic.

It makes sense for the Bush White House to throw their support behind Lieberman who has been such a strong supporter of Bush’s policy in Iraq and other issues. Better the devil you know, ya know? Any Republican candidate in the race would have an uphill battle to win and there is no guarantee that he or she would be as adamant a supporter of Bush as Lieberman has already shown himself to be putting himself in political peril for that support. Bush values loyalty above all else and Lieberman has been loyal to the president for the more than three years of this war. No Republican candidate the party in Connecticut could put forward could match that loyalty. Rove is a political genius and Lieberman’s campaign has been particularly lacking in any political genius so far despite his being a three term US Senator. Joe Lieberman could only gain from Rove’s help and as they say Democrats play to the left and Republicans to the right in the primaries but they need to play to center in the general elections. Gaining Bush’s and therefore GOP support and using his name recognition among Democratic voters is Lieberman’s only hope to winning in November. He’d be a fool to turn Bush and Rove down.

It has been said, "God save me from my friends; I can protect myself from my enemies." But of course the Democratic primary and the November election in Connecticut may be two different matters.

Wait, who's Lieberman's boss again? It sure ain't the people of Connecticut.

Surprise, surprise.

Isn't this why he lost the race yesterday? By being too close to the president and the republican party?

"... without turning off the independents and moderate Democrats he needs to win." How can Holy Joe possibly throw himself further into the arms of W without arousing the well-justified disgust of independents and moderate Democrats?

Joe and W need to get a room. The rest of us don't want to watch.

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Lieberman lost the primary. The voters have spoken. It's called democracy.

Bush and Rove are just doing what they always do, trying to subvert the law and the Constitution to accomplish their anti-American agenda.

Joe is a pathetic creature who is desperate to hold on to power. He gets more like Bush every day.

I don't believe Stephanopoulos for one second. If this story were true, that is, if a a close Lieberman adviser, told Stephanopoulos that, then Lieberman deserves to go down in flames. He shouldn't be hiring someone so stupid as to tell Stephanopoulos that. The only person would benefit from Bush aiding Lieberman is Lamont.

I think he should accept the backup, its a kiss of death for Lieberman once and for all. If the repubs are running from this president what makes him think they are for him anyway!

Joe should just appreciate that he was in office for 18 years, take the pension and health benes and everything he can get and live a nice quiet life for you and your family.

Things are so going so badly for this a/h we call Mr President even associating with him will cause you nothing but more grief.

The mask is finally coming off. Our government has been acting the way amateurs do, depending on spin rather than the facts, not knowing or understanding the impact of what it has been doing, and more people are recognizing it or acknowledging it, especially with Lamont's win. From President Bush, who makes a joke of his ignorance, to stooges such as Rumsfeld and truly unfeeling fixed-idea men such as Cheney, we have suffered from inept and uninformed leadership. Iraq is just one example of such amateurness, with a war that had no plan for any follow-up. Iran is another. The way we’ve handled Afghanistan is still another. Our ignoring the essential conflict between Israel and the Palestine peoples, just hoping it will go away. Add them up and we can now see how inept this administration has been. Then look at the current economy, changed from a positive one in which our assets were growing to one in which almost everything except oil has been declining. Asking the military, who weren’t trained to build nations and who did their job heroically in the war, to sort out what needs to be done in Iraq or Afghanistan is truly amateurish; such work was never the military’s job. Not even having a full professional cadre of those who speak the language of our enemies, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Iran to Lebanon how could this administration even pretend to understand what forces it has unleashed? How could they even understand that a real possibility is the current civil war? The author of Fiasco, Tom Ricks, has said well probably have troops in Iraq for fifteen years because of how amateurishly things have been handled. He also has said that, as far as they're concerned, the Bush Administration is leaving this mess for the next administration. I grieve for our sons and daughters and our grandchildren who will be forced to handle the mess that will be left behind by this administration.

Say it ain't so, Joe.

Did Karl help Joe out with the last-minute "hack attack" on the campaign website? Shades of little bugs in offices.

Surprised?

"The safest course may be a polite 'thanks but no thanks' to the White House offer."

Really? Ya think, George?

For god's sake, man, there are g.d. GOPers running from W., but you just think it "may be (the safest course)" for Joe to say no thanks?

Personally, I hope he accepts the help, then we get a two-fer out of the CT race to see exactly how 1) dems are responding to Iraq and the politicians that support it and how 2) the president's assistance affects the outcome of an election in November. We already know the answer to 1, and I'm pretty sure about the answer to 2.

Thanks so much for the thoughtful and critical analysis.

George,
What's this future tense BS? Where do you think "The Kiss" came from?

John Smith