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CT-Sen: Cut and Run Joe

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2006
Posted on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 12:43:29 PM EST
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After accusing Democrats of emboldening the terrorists by criticizing President Bush's Iraq Debacle, the shameless unprincipled hack de facto Republican candidate for Senate in Connecticut now wants to bring the troops home.

What a piece of work. Joe will say anything to save his and President Bush's political skins.

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    CT-Sen: Cut and Run Joe | 7 comments (7 topical)
    Re: CT-Sen: Cut and Run Joe (none / 0) (#1)
    by glanton on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 01:24:27 PM EST
    Lieberman, that blight of human skin, is going to win the Conneticut Race in a walk even though he was unceremoniously dumped at the primary, there will be enough stupid Dems joining with the GOP electorate to enable his victory.  And anyone who thinks this man will caucus with Dems after winning is deluding themselves.  

    Not that it matters where he caucuses.  Despite all this talk about the Dems taking the Senate this November, hatred for homosexuals and fear of women's rights will trump all in this election, once again, leaving both houses exactly where they are now.  GOP candidates will not suffer from their little Iraq experiment nor from their gaggle of scandals.  Heck, we all know that in most of these GOP districts the GOp candidate could swallow a live kitten on television and still get elected as long as they said something nasty about gays &c.  

    Then when all the smoke clears we'll start hearing from Dem apologists all over the blogosphere about rigged voting machines and all kinds of other excuses when the real issue is recognizing pervasive bigotry as an inescapable fact of this national ethos.  

    Only by recognizing this problem can people hope to eventually (maybe) do something about it.

    Re: CT-Sen: Cut and Run Joe (none / 0) (#4)
    by Gabriel Malor on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 03:56:02 PM EST
    Oh, I don't know about that, glanton. It's not Republicans going around outing people.

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    Re: CT-Sen: Cut and Run Joe (none / 0) (#7)
    by glanton on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 04:17:22 PM EST
    Yes there has been some outing of gay Republicans by Democratic sources.  What does this have to do with the fact that Rethugs riling up their base every two years with anti-gay rhetoric?  Or do you pretend this doesn't happen?  What in hell is wrong with you?  Plus,  

    1) Since these outed Rethugs, like evangelicals, libertarians, and the corporate lobbyists, are doing everything they possibly can, merely by associating themselves with the GOP to criminalize private behavior that doesn't conform to certain passages of Leviticus--since this is the case, O Gabe, it is useful to see that some of the people supporting thse measures are also in violation of said passages of Leviticus.  In other words, O Gabe, it's called hypocrisy.  Hererosexuals who vote GOP don't deserve respect because they openly support bigotry in this the year 2006.  But gay Republicans deserve even less, given the damage they are doing to other homosexuals.  Talk about self-loathing.

    2)There is a big difference between outing and criminalizing.  There is also a big difference between outing and physically assaulting.  Rethugs are big on these other two.  And as for outing itself.....  

    3)Do you seriously believe that the Rethug base doesn't support outing gays, who they loathe?  If you think that there is no hope for you.

    Why lie, especially on this board, given that 99% of the readers see right through it? It's not like you're at the GOP convention or talking to a bunch of idiot libertarians. Just admit your Party fosters gay bashing and be done with it.  Stop prestending the world is flat, O Gabe.

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    Re: CT-Sen: Cut and Run Joe (none / 0) (#2)
    by PoliticalTruthWatch on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 02:21:27 PM EST
    Don't be surprised. . .this is nothing new than good, old "fighting-to-keep-my-Senate-seat" at its finest. . .I am not sure what is sadder. . .the fact that Republicans are throwing their support behind Joe because they want to have it both ways or the fact that they have a candidate in Schlesinger that they have already elected via the primary process and the fact that they are ignoring him because he doesn't have the best chance to win. What ever happened to voting based on principle? As for who he caucuses with, I agree it's irrelavent. . .he hasn't caucused with Democrats in forever. . .

    Re: CT-Sen: Cut and Run Joe (none / 0) (#3)
    by Che's Lounge on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 03:50:00 PM EST
    The morph is complete. Now the GOP is supporting a cut and run candidate. See. They DO care about the troops. Dems are soooooooo dumb.

    Re: CT-Sen: Cut and Run Joe (none / 0) (#6)
    by Gabriel Malor on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 03:56:45 PM EST
    OT: Woah! Che, when did you get your apostrophe back? Looks good!

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    Re: CT-Sen: Cut and Run Joe (none / 0) (#5)
    by cpinva on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 03:56:12 PM EST
    so what happened to this ned lamont guy? sorry, i have a difficult enough time keeping up with allen & webb here in va, other races are beyond me. that, and i live/vote in va, not ct. it wouldn't really matter, for practical purposes, who i liked in ct, i don't vote there.

    i thought the dem party machine was supporting lamont (he was, after all, their boy in the primary.), so what happened to his campaign? it seems to have done a slow fizzle.

    CT-Sen: Cut and Run Joe | 7 comments (7 topical)