Posted by
Steve on Friday, July 07, 2006 3:04:26 AM
I watched about ten minutes of the Democratic debate between incumbent Senator Joseph Lieberman and his challenger, Ned Lamont. I can fully appreciate why the Daily Kos crowd in tandem with the Moveon.org folks are supporting an insurgent Lamont candidacy. In the brief time that I watched the debates, I noticed Lamont sounds like a Democratic candidate for president-not a serious senatorial candidate representing one of the fifty states in the union. I heard his scathing critiques of the Iraq War, "Big Oil", and earmarks. With the exception of Mr. Lamont's proposal for ending dependence on foreign oil with Carteresque (he brought up the cardigan speech-not me) conservation, I could tell you a laundry list of ideas that Lamont is against, but virtually no ideas that he supports (except cardigans and conservation). If Senator Lieberman is the last of a dying breed of Scoop Jackson Democrat, than I shudder to think what label should be properly applied to the Democrats that are taking their place. Perhaps a Moveon Democrat or a Kosocrat? The
Lamont-Lieberman debate is being reaired at 6:00 am Eastern, and should be made available on the C-SPAN homepage. I will link to the replay of the debate as (and if) it becomes available.