Joe Lieberman blinks
Posted by Moonage on 05 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: 2006 US Senate Races, Opinions
From MSNBC:
Facing a stronger-than-expected Democratic primary challenge from millionaire businessman Ned Lamont and sagging poll numbers because of his support of the Iraq war, Lieberman said Monday he’ll collect signatures to assure an independent ballot spot for the November election if he loses the Aug. 8 primary.
I’ve been around politics my whole life. I’ve worked a few campaigns in the past. I’ve worked with winners and losers as well. The one thing the winners pretty much all had in common is they decided the path their campaign would take and how to execute it early. And didn’t sway. You could almost always know who was losing because they were the one that suddenly started doing unpredictable things. This throws your campaign in chaos and re-affirms to the voting public that what you were doing apparently wasn’t working. In all cases, it creates doubt. Doubt kills campaigns. Lieberman is a seasoned campaigner and extremely experienced politician. For him to start coming up with a serious Plan B with a month to go amazes me. It’s one thing to have a back-up plan, it’s another fall back on it when Plan A isn’t even completed yet. He’s blinked first. IMO, he’s already conceded defeat. In 34 days he’ll know for sure.
It’s actions like Lieberman’s that pretty much convinced me to take a back seat in politics. You can work your heart out for a candidate and then they’ll do something like this and just totally destroy your faith. But, you’re committed already. So, you just keep meeting people trying to convince them to support a candidate that you don’t even fully trust yourself. This was a boner of a move by Lieberman. I’m really surprised. And, quite honestly, since I don’t think the people he serves can do any better than Joe, I’m disappointed since I’m quite certain he’s paid too much attention to the media and let them get to him. He should have known better than that. I mean, according to that same media, he should be Vice-President right now.
3 Comments »
on 05 Jul 2006 at 10:01 pm 1.StormWarning
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I am told however that this year, 2006, is a year in which a number of incumbents, both D and R and in both Houses are seemingly vulnerable to challenges (challengers).
on 05 Jul 2006 at 10:17 pm 2.Moonage
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I’m not commenting so much on the probabilities of incumbents being beaten or not, I’m just commenting specifically on Joe’s campaign. Whether or not he had a realistic chance of being beat, you don’t blink. He may or may not have had a realistic chance of being beat. Now, he has told everyone in Connecticut he thinks he does. All that does is motivate the competitor. I expect a few “upsets”, it’s an off-year election and that’s when it’s most likely to happen. And, I expect more inexperienced campaigners to blink. I just really didn’t expect it from Joe.
on 14 Jul 2006 at 2:46 am 3.mw
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Agree, he is showing weakness. But I guess its not that different than running for VP and Senator at the same time in 2000. He just likes having an ace up his sleeve. Wouldn’t be surpised if he sqeeks through the priamry though.
I did like Joe. Thought he had some integrity. But after watching the debate with Lamont, he sounded just like the Big Spending Big Government Republicans we have in Congress. The exchange on earmarks was unbelievable. Thought you might enjoy the little video commentary I put together and linked from my post To earmark or not to earmark, that is the question.