I attended the Rally in New Haven, Ct today,Set up my table with free Dump Joe Bumper stickers and spoke to a few hundred people who mostly agreed that their junior Senator is a disgrace and listened to the heartwrenching speeches given by Veterans for Peace,Iraq war veterans for Peace,Goldstar Families for Peace and others. I'm guessing the crowd numbered around 1000 or so but something was obviously missing.
No elected official of any stature dared to show up.
Rosa DeLauro,who consistently wins with close to 70% of the vote and who voted AGAINST the IWR wasn't there.
John Larson, who represents the Hartford area and consistently wins with almost the same % as Rosa and also voted against the IWR wasn't there,
Chris Dodd,our senior Senator and the man who organized the Senate Dems to stand up against the Bolton nomination and who must know the Iraq War is lost wasn't there.
Joe Lieberman,our JR.Senator everyone knew wouldn't be there and more than likely wouldn't have been welcome,naturally wasn't there
Perhaps the biggest disappointment however was that the Mayor of New Haven, John Destefano,whose office was less than 100 yrds away and who is seeking the Dem nomination for Governor in 06 and whose campaign has been trying to "sell" him as a progressive didn't show.
I'm sorry to say this but I think Rove is right.He knows just how spineless most of our Dem representatives are.
Even though 52% of the american people believe we should leave Iraq with or without a stable government in place most of the people that matter to these politicians (their big contributors) haven't stopped giving them the cash they need to keep their positions of power and that,my freinds, is their only major concern.
I'm hoping to be proven wrong on Sept. 24th in Washington DC but to this Dem it seems Mr Rove may know our Dem. elected officials better than we do.