Big day

A quick recap of the yesterday’s events:

18 year incumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman, backed by the power, might, and money of every DC insider you can point a stick at, lost his primary to relative political newcomer Ned Lamont. It is kind of hard overestimate to improbability of the D’s 2000 VP candidate losing a primary six years later, but that is the consequence for being a Bush/Iraq apologist. But in true “it is all about Joe” style, Lieberman has promised to run in the General as an “Independent Democrat”, whatever the hell that is supposed to mean. In his non-concession speech, Joe got way up on his high horse and proclaimed,

"For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand,"

From his point of view, Connecticut voters are just too stupid to recognize what a great Senator he is and he needs to give them another chance to make it right. Ego, hubris, inflated self-worth; what an asshole.

At any rate, congrats to the Lamont campaign; their grassroots strategy may well the roadmap to rout of the Republicans come November. That message is simple: Blind fealty to incompetence should not and cannot be rewarded. And to those that say the crazy anti-war left wing of the Party has taken over, a new poll found that 60% of the country opposes the war. Hostility to Bush’s war is the American mainstream; woe be unto those that forget that lesson this fall.


Another of my least favorite Democrats, Rep. Cynthia McKinney was also handed her walking papers, though for matters more personal rather than policy-wise. McKinney lost her primary to former county commissioner Hank Johnson by 59-41 percent. That folks, is being taken to the woodshed and not without good reason. The Congresswoman for Georgia’s 4th is about as bad a politician as one can be. Vain, arrogant, and a wicked crazy conspiracy theorist/believer; she plays the race card at every opportunity, including the recent incident when she hit a Capitol Hill cop. Dumping her in the primary is a credit to voters in suburban Atlanta. Y’all deserve better.

So good riddance to Cynthia McKinney and congratulations to soon-to-be Rep. Johnson. Yesterday was a very good day for the Democratic wing of the Democratic party. November is looking better and better.