As I noted last nite, events in the Connecticut Democrat Party are going to cause major headaches for the national party. Ned Lamont is proving to be a bigger headache for the Democrats national aspirations than the anti-war Left that is running the show in Connecticut could possibly imagine.
They're going to destroy the party in order to save it. They think that pushing Lieberman under the bus is going to send a message to Democrats elsewhere that the far left will not tolerate any dissent from their anti-war position. Never mind that the Democrat party will lose yet more seats in the process - despite soft support for GOPers.
And Lieberman is hedging his bets. He's still got a lead at the polls, but just in case the anti-war groups get out the vote, he's lining up for an run as an independent.
Don't think for a moment that Lieberman wont forget what the Democrats statewide are doing, or what the national party is doing either. Lieberman has been a loyal Democrat in the Scoop Jackson, JFK, and Harry Truman style - where politics stops at the shores. That isn't good enough for the ideological purity demanded by the anti-war far left.
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