The most recent ads from the Lamont campaign can be seen at the Lamont website or found quickly at a post by Kirby over at Connecticut Bob. See the Friday post, "Video roundup."
http://ctbob.blogspot.com/
The ads are directed at specific strengths or opportunities that the campaign sees. But this observer and frequent volunteer believes that Ned would benefit even more by reemphasizing the strong themes that made his candidacy worth supporting in the first place. Ned is doing much of this in his campaign appearances, but this in not being reported well, so the themes need to be stressed in media ads. I hope the campaign uses the limited time and ad buys left to stress these key themes:
1. Iraq is a disaster. The worst strategic blunder in our lifetimes. We can't hope to change course, or even get a realistic assessment of where we are, unless we hold accountable those who got us into Iraq in the first place, especially Joe Lieberman and his fellow neocons who supported these strategic blunders without question. They need to go. If we don't hold Lieberman accountable, he and the neocon radical right will lead us into yet another catastrophe in the ME or elsewhere. This has already happened in Lebanon.
2. The entire Bush foreign policy, endorsed by Lieberman, is littered with failure and is destroying US honor and prestige around the world. They are making the world less safe; they are endangering US security; they have already made Israel less secure, and they have completely destroyed US ability to be the honest broker and peacemaker. They have destroyed respect for America everywhere, so we now have more enemies (and more potential terrorists) than ever. We have to replace Lieberman and others who continue to enable and promote these reckless policy disasters.
3. Lieberman no longer stands for democratic principles. He has repeatedly betrayed his party and Democratic principles by dissing his fellow Democrats and undermining their chances of retaking Congress, even in his own State. Worse, Lieberman has failed to support and actively undermined responsible Democrats and Republicans at key opportunities who tried to hold the Bush regime accountable and to provide a check on its radical behavior. Joe has enabled Supreme Court and other appointees that will rubber stamp the Bush regime's radical agenda and assault on the Constitution. Joe's vote for the detainee torture bill and against habeaus corpus was a moral outrage and was another example of enabling the worst, most radical and dangerous policies of the Bush regime. He's undermined respect for law at home and respect for international standards of decency everywhere.
4. Ned believes in democratic principles and will fight for them. Ned believes there is a compelling need to reverse the Bush/Katrina notion that government should be so weakened, so bankrupt, so corrupt and so incompetent that it can no longer work for the people even in an emergency. Ned will work to restore faith in responsible government and use it to work for economic security for the working/middle class, starting with universal health care. Joe can't do this and also be a shill for the Bush regime.
5. Ned believes government exists to help people who need a hand, not to protect and further enrich the privileged or dictate their private lives. Government also exists to correct the excesses of an unbridled market, to hold corporations in check when they put profits ahead of the need for economic security for workers; he will oppose the Bush regime's efforts to suppress organized labor or to undermine Social Security, or create donut holes for Medicare drug programs, or to weaking environmental, health and safety standards. Joe Lieberman has betrayed these principles, and the clearest signs of that were his anti-consumer votes for the bankruptcy and energy bills, his unwillingness to allow the government to negotiate for lower drug prices, and other votes that helped the wealthiest corporations at the expense of ordinary people. And now to stay in office, Joe eagerly solicits and accepts millions in campaign contributions from the largest corporations and lobbyist-related PACs that are fighting to maintain corporate interests over the economic security interests of the working/middle class. This is not Democratic; it's not even traditional conservativism or Republican; it is corporate welfare at the expense of the working/middle class.
6. And finally, Joe can't be trusted. He's betrayed his own party; he's betrayed democratic principles; he's betrayed the constitution and principles of the rule of law and checks and balances; and he will betray those Republicans and Independents who think they're getting an independent, principled voice. If that man ever existed, 18 years in Washington have changed that. Joe has betrayed everyone, and he can't be trusted. It is time for Joe to go.