The Sen. Joe Lieberman campaign announced that Bill Clinton will
be up in Waterbury, Conn., to campaign for the Senator. All while
Hillary is declining to publicly do much for her next-state
neighbor.
The Clinton arrival comes at the same time as a Quinnipiac poll
that shows Lieberman's challenger in the Democrat primary, Ned
Lamont, now leading Lieberman by a couple of percentage points.
MoveOn and the Kossacks must just be laughing manically about this.
After seeing their anti-war babe McKinney essentially lose on
Tuesday night (she's in a runoff), this is uplifting news.
There are a number of what we'll call "reasonable" Democrats in
Washington and elsewhere watching the Lieberman race closely, not
so much because of what it means for Lieberman, but for what the
outcome means for the party and the 2008 presidential race. "I
don't think people on the far left understand what they are doing,"
says a Washington-based Democrat political consultant. "It's
alarming to a lot of us, and we're not sure why it isn't alarming
to more people within the party hierarchy."
Meanwhile, Republicans are quietly watching, and hoping --
regardless of the outcome in the Democrat primary in Connecticut, a
lot of people believe the only winner is the Republican Party.
topics:
Bill Clinton, NATO
