Schumer has already lined up behind Lamont. So have Senators Clinton, Bayh and Edwards, all of whom supported Lieberman in the primary. Don't know about Reid yet.
Lamont won mostly due to Joe's Captain Queeg act, but partly because he had the grass roots. Now he has the DC establishment as well. Lieberman will either sensibly drop out well before November when he sees he has no more establishment support, or he'll melt down to the point where he has no more political career at all.
I say this coming from the opinion that Lieberman wasn't all that bad, and I'd have happily supported him had he won his primary. Seems to me it's not too late for him to accept the results and be somewhat gracious about it. If he does, there's enough of him left to make him a contender for a cabinet post in the next Democratic administration, maybe Governor if he doesn't think that's beneath him. Any more of the steel balls and ranting that Lamont took the strawberries, though, and no one will ever touch him again.
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Date: 2006-08-09 04:09 pm (UTC)Lamont won mostly due to Joe's Captain Queeg act, but partly because he had the grass roots. Now he has the DC establishment as well. Lieberman will either sensibly drop out well before November when he sees he has no more establishment support, or he'll melt down to the point where he has no more political career at all.
I say this coming from the opinion that Lieberman wasn't all that bad, and I'd have happily supported him had he won his primary. Seems to me it's not too late for him to accept the results and be somewhat gracious about it. If he does, there's enough of him left to make him a contender for a cabinet post in the next Democratic administration, maybe Governor if he doesn't think that's beneath him. Any more of the steel balls and ranting that Lamont took the strawberries, though, and no one will ever touch him again.