{"id":8207,"date":"2006-08-15T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T14:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8207.html"},"modified":"2006-08-15T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T14:19:25","slug":"were-absolutely-sure-lieberman-will-caucus-with-the-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/were-absolutely-sure-lieberman-will-caucus-with-the-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re absolutely sure Lieberman will caucus with the Dems?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s supposed to be a done deal, at least as far as the party is concerned: whether Joe Lieberman or Ned Lamont wins the Connecticut Senate race, the seat stays “blue.” Lieberman has said he’s running as an independent, but he’ll caucus with the Dems if he wins re-election in November.<\/p>\n

Maybe the DSCC should ask for that in writing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Connecticut’s U.S. Senate race continued Monday along its unpredictable way: The White House declined to endorse the nominee of state Republicans – and a new “Vets for Freedom” group with ties to the GOP advertised its backing of incumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman, who is waging an independent campaign for re-election after losing last week’s Democratic primary.<\/p>\n

The group’s full-page ad Monday in The Courant created an immediate stir: Former Democratic State Chairman George Jepsen, a top adviser to Democratic primary winner Ned Lamont, said the ad showed that “national Republicans, in their effort to help Joe Lieberman, clearly have a well-laid-out strategy to attack Ned Lamont.” […]<\/p>\n

“Thank you Senator Lieberman,” the ad began in large type. Then, in smaller print, it continued: “Iraq and Afghanistan are complicated wars. But you have not let politics influence your position. We are grateful for your integrity, leadership and unwavering commitment to America’s troops. We are veterans of these wars, and we salute you.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just as bad, Dan Gerstein, a longtime Lieberman aide whom the senator named as his new communications director, engaged in a little red-baiting yesterday<\/a>, and the Lieberman campaign seems to be anxious to characterize Lamont as a communist (this, after complaining before the primary that Lamont “voted with Republicans 80 percent of the time”).<\/p>\n

Karl Rove is being awfully friendly; the WH and the RNC won’t back the Republican candidate; “Vets for Freedom” is coming to Lieberman’s aid; Lieberman is lashing out at the left … and Dems are sure<\/i> Lieberman will caucus with the Dems come January?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s supposed to be a done deal, at least as far as the party is concerned: whether Joe Lieberman or Ned Lamont wins the Connecticut Senate race, the seat stays “blue.” Lieberman has said he’s running as an independent, but he’ll caucus with the Dems if he wins re-election in November. Maybe the DSCC should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}