As the Courant reports, MoveOn is
kicking around the idea of financing a primary opponent to Joe Lieberamn.
"The war in Iraq has all the characteristics of Joe-momentum," said Tom Matzzie, Washington director of MoveOn.org, a liberal, Democratic-leaning activist group, recalling a slogan the senator used unsuccessfully during his 2004 presidential campaign.
"Just like he didn't realize his presidential ambitions were in trouble," Matzzie said, "he doesn't understand the war in Iraq isn't going anywhere." [...]
No elected official would criticize Lieberman; he is still a respected figure within his party, someone who is a reliable vote on most issues of importance to Democrats. But Matzzie, whose organization claims more than 50,000 Connecticut members, said Wednesday that if his members ask, his group would back a Democratic challenger to Lieberman.
Matzzie was in New Haven last month, and found "the No. 1 question people asked me was, `What are we going to do about Joe Lieberman?'"
Connecticut MoveOn members, start asking. Let's get Lowell Weicker into this race.
Lieberman hasn't just disagreed with the party. I don't mind disagreement. And on many issues he's a solid progressive. But he yearns to be a "maverick", and thinks that means trashing Democrats from right-wing perches, be they Fox News or the Wall Street Journal editorial page. For example, he has worked hard to provide "bipartisan" cover to Bush's disastrous Iraq adventure. So much so, that Bush called him out for warm praise during the speech on his "plan".
And to top it off, Lieberman's myopic single-minded support for the war is not just getting our people killed, but is completely divorced from reality. Remember, Time's Baghdad bureau chief said on Morning Sedition:
I and some other journalists had lunch with Senator Joe Lieberman the other day and we listened to him talking about Iraq. Either Senator Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he's completely lost the plot or he knows he's spinning a line. Because one of my colleagues turned to me in the middle of this lunch and said he's not talking about any country I've ever been to and yet he was talking about Iraq, the very country where we were sitting.
But it's not just the war, no matter how much of an overriding issue that's become. It's stuff like this, this, and this.
And to think, I used to defend the guy. Now, if MoveOn decides to help a challenger in such a primary, I'm behind them 100 percent.
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