What a huge upset last night in the Democratic Primary for Connecticut Senator.
Ned Lamont, a total unknown and newbie to politics, took on and beat a popular incumbent Senator who was within a few hundred votes of being our Vice President.
This campaign was half won by sheer incompetence on the part of the Lieberman campaign the whole way through and part on the great job of the Lamont campaign to use the netroots to spread their message.
While the Republicans and Lieberman are going to try to brand this as some extremist takeover of the Democratic Party, the fact is the people have spoken and anytime a “people powered” campaign works together to overthrow a career politician, that’s not extremist, it’s Democracy.
One other thing. There’s no such thing as an “Independant Democract” anymore than there’s such a thing as “Independant Republican”. It doesn’t matter if you’re a United States Senator or a Milwaukee County Sheriff running for re-election, you’re either a Democrat or a Republican or an Independant.
If you have to intermingle the words to try to get support that you wouldn’t otherwise deserve, you’re lying to yourself and the voters you’re trying to confuse.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and son Carter.
Now I’l take Lamont over Lieberman anyday, but people powered is a stretch. He is a Haliburton investing, Wal-Mart loving millanaire.
Just because you may have some money doesn’t mean you can’t run a campaign that generates most of intensity from regular people.
Dan,
Halliburton. That’s what threw me over the edge. Come on, running an anti-war campaign while your investments are in the war industry.
Its not rocket scientist for a millonaire to beat an incumbant, sadly, that’s how its usually done. I trust Russ, so will give Lamont the benefit of the doubt for now. No member of congress or the senate should have investments in Halliburton when a war is going. That’s wrong, I ‘d call it treason.
I hear what you’re saying Nate, but on the topic of he’s a rich guy, I just can’t hold it against him. He founded his own company (selling digital cable boxes) and did well off it. I think that’s great.
About the Halliburton stuff, I can see where you’re coming from, and from what I’ve been able to find out, they said his ownership of that was due to his money management firm picking stocks for him, and the wal mart ownership is part of another mutal fund he has through Goldman Sachs.
So what does he do? Sell it off and get called a profiteer for making money, or do nothing and have to deal with more people who are critical of it?