Solomon says…

So Joe Lieberman loses the primary to Leftie millionaire Ned Lamont. Sure, sometimes its great to see an incumbent lose, mainly because it happens to infrequently its starts looking like our democracy is more like an aristocracy or oligarchy, but in this case I think the Democrats are the ones losing the most. This is just another case study in how much of a collosal lie it is to say that the Democratic party is anything remotely near a ‘big tent party’.

Both parties have been working harder and harder, it seems, to push their moderate members out. Arlen Specter, a very senior republican senator from Pennsylvania, had a tough primary fight recently, although he made it through. The republicans even have a little acronym that the right wingers use when describing moderates; RINOs (Republicans In Name Only). This gives the impression that the right wing types who use this kind of childish terminology have a stranglehold on what being a republican is all about! Wait… oh yeah, they do don’t they?

Sorry, for a second there I forgot that most of us in this “Democracy” aren’t actually represented by our “Representatives”. Tack one up for the Lefties! Or maybe not… From what I’ve seen talked about so far, Lieberman has said that even if he wins as an Independent he will basically act like a Democrat in Washington. This could of course be true, but then today I read stories about how a number of people who were Lieberman supporters as late as yesterday are now siding with Ned Lamont. How much unbrotherly love from his old democratic buddies will it take for him to change his mind and go back to the senate as a real independent?

He has to win the general in November of course… but as of right now that’s not looking like it’ll be anything near impossible. The republican running in the general only made it through to the general because he was the only one willing to do the footwork to garner the votes. No serious political types in the state wanted anything to do with the race because Lieberman was seen as a sure winner. But now the Republican Party is trying to push their candidate (Alan Schlesinger) out of the race because his only real claim to fame is the recently dug up history of having a terrible gambling problem a few years back. Schlesinger doesn’t want to step down and even if he does and they are able to get a candidate up and running they will have a hell of an uphill battle just to get his name recognition high enough to pose a serious threat to Lieberman and/or Lamont.

Truthfully, what I’d like to see come out of this is a Lieberman victory after a terribly vicious campaign that so yanks on his chain that he gallops back to DC as a true independent. He’s the kind of guy who really does represent us regular people who aren’t crazy enough to hail from either wing. For us in the ‘moderate majority’ who don’t have more than a handful of politicians in DC who actually care about what we think over the left and right wing bases of their respective parties, this is at least a start.

Heck, I might just send a few bucks good ol’ Joe’s way, and you should think about it too!