Thursday, August 10, 2006
Where is his Joementum taking him?
It appears for the moment that Joe Lieberman is going to stay in the race as an independent. But while he might win his seat in November, he has now outlived his usefulness to the Republican Party, and Washington will never be the same for him. Lieberman was loved by the GOP because he was the Democrat who crossed over the lines to give them cover. If he's in the Senate next year, he won't have that "(D)" after his name, which pretty much eliminates his usefulness to them. Lieberman may think he's living in a world in which policy is made in the bipartisan center, but he's going to find out what Washington has been like this century. And if he were to change party or caucus with the GOP, well, think about how loved James Jeffords and Arlen Spector are by the rest of Republican Washington -- that's the love Lieberman would be getting.
Lieberman thinks he's trailing at halftime, but what he doesn't realize is that his game is over.
Lieberman thinks he's trailing at halftime, but what he doesn't realize is that his game is over.
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The man seems to me to have lost his marbles. His own sense of self-importance has blinded him to the reality of the situation and I don't know what can turn him back. I heard Chuck Todd speculate that once the first poll numbers come in and he sees that his fund-raising has dried up, it might dawn on him -- but I fear he may be too far gone for that.
What if his fundraising doesn't dry up? The guy has a reasonable shot to be the next Senator from the state.
I think it really has to. Since Connecticut Republicans seem less-than-enthusiastic about their candidate, if they wanted to push Lieberman, they would have flooded him with cash before the primary.
I hope you're right but fear you're wrong. Like Lieberman, they might have just assumed he would win. Or maybe he wasn't asking them for money, but will now.
And he may have enough money left over from the primary -- I think I read he still has $2 million in the bank -- to carry him for a while.
I hope someone can talk him down.
And he may have enough money left over from the primary -- I think I read he still has $2 million in the bank -- to carry him for a while.
I hope someone can talk him down.
I find it hard to imagine many willing to go to the mat for Lieberman at this point. What rich interests does he serve that Lamont seemingly wouldn't? Gratitude for past pork doesn't strike me as much of a motivator, and I imagine porkees might worry funding Liebie now would offend Lamont just when they'd like to court him. Actually, I feel pretty clueless about such stuff and wouldn't speculate but had nothing better to do. I suspect the aspect of this that actually matters happened already.
If you think of campaign donations as transactional instead of charity, you can imagine that people still will want to curry favor with him.
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