I just received a nice email from the Ned Lamont campaign, who as you know is going to finally throw Joementum Lieberman, the awful Fox News Democrat, out of office.
Two months ago I stated that if 1,000 people from Connecticut signed up on our web page (www.NedLamont.com) I would agree to challenge George Bush's favorite Democrat in a primary on August 8th.
We have significantly exceeded that goal and on Monday March 13th we had a very successful campaign launch. Read the news here:
Hartford Courant Article
(Senator Frogvoice)
Joe Lieberman's response provides a clear indication that he is knows that we can win.
We can win, but only if we sustain our momentum in building an unprecedented grassroots campaign.
I am asking that you continue to help build this campaign by encouraging your friends, families, and neighbors to ask them to sign up today and consider contributing today:
www.nedlamont.com/contribute.html
Here are some excerpts from the Courant article:
Ending two months of exploratory campaigning, Ned Lamont debuted Monday as a full-fledged challenger to Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, promising a debate on the war in Iraq and a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party...
Lieberman's support for invading Iraq may be the catalyst for a challenge to a three-term incumbent whose candidacy he once supported financially, but Lamont said his differences with the senator go deeper than the war.
He described Lieberman - an iconic politician who was the first Jew on a presidential ticket as the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2000 - as a "Republican Lite" and "George Bush's favorite Democrat," too cozy with the GOP and too distant from his Democratic roots.
"We're going to fight for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party," Lamont told more than 100 supporters at the Old State House. "With your passion, your enthusiasm, the grass roots, the Net roots - we're going to show people on a hot day in August that we can win. We can win not by being Republican Lite, but by being proud Democrats."...
"Attacking Sen. Lieberman's character and integrity was a predictable but dishonorable way to begin this campaign," said Sean Smith, Lieberman's campaign manager. "Mr. Lamont is clearly going to run a very negative and angry campaign where the truth doesn't get in the way."
Smith said Lieberman has solid progressive credentials and gets high marks for his voting record from organized labor, the abortion rights movement, environmentalists and civil rights activists.
Tom Swan, Lamont's campaign manager, said Lamont attacked Lieberman's record, not his integrity.
"That's what their focus groups tell them they have do, portray Ned as angry. That's asinine," Swan said. "We're going to talk about Lieberman's record. It would be a good record - for a Republican from Mississippi."
Who the HELL is running Lieberman's sad PATHETIC campaign, Karl Rove? Mary Matalin? Jesus christ I hate these people so much!
What exactly are his "solid progressive credentials?" Is it when he used the 2004 Democratic Primary as a way to attack fellow Democrats? Is it when he gave bi-partisan cover to every Republican initiative in the Senate?
Is it when George Bush
french kissed him on the mouth at the State of the Union address?
Ned rightfully calls Joementum out for his anti-American anti-Democratic unwaivering support for the Nazi-con Bushists, and how does Frog-voice reply? He drags out that tired STUPID meme about the angry leftists. Anyone who opposes war is ANGRY. Anyone who opposes torture and murder of innocent civilians is an insane wacky radical luney liberal. God damnit I'm so sick of hearing that shit!
When Joementum, the senator of my home state, is finally thrown out of office, I'm going to celebrate something serious. I know we're not going to retake the house or the senate, but I'll settle for putting this asshole back into the private sector.
If you live in Connecticut, please please PLEASE volunteer, vote in the primary, and no matter where you are PLEASE donate to his campaign!
If you have any bit of sanity left in you, I KNOW that you're sick and fucking tired of Joementum dragging the Democrats through the mud every time he appears on Fox News and bashes the netroots with his annoying frogvoice.
Please do WHATEVER YOU CAN to throw his ass out!