Second 'thumbs down' from the CT Post - A new record for Joe! (with updates)

by: Sue

Sat Jul 22, 2006 at 10:01:37 AM EDT

The Week - Setbacks

(we find Joe sandwiched between Ralph Reed and Yahoo's reported weak ad revenues, the arrest of an online betting executive in London and New York's muddy tap water):

Mr. Lieberman is strugging to save his political career. His standing among Democrats in the state has suffered, largely because of his support for the Iraq war. The latest poll, by Quinnipiac University, showed just how much the challenger, Ned Lamont, has benefited: he had 51 percent of the likely primary voters to 47 percent for Mr. Lieberman. Three months ago, Mr. Lamont, a cable TV executive, had 19 percent to Mr. Lieberman's 65 percent.

From Frank Rich:

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/opinion/23rich.html

The Passion of the Embryos
It’s possible that even Joe Lieberman, a fellow traveler in the religious right’s Schiavo and indecency jeremiads, could be swept out with Rick Santorum in the 2006 wave. Mr. Lieberman is hardly the only Democrat in the Senate who signed on to the war in Iraq, but he’s surely the most sanctimonious. He is also the only Democrat whose incessant Bible thumping (while running for vice president in 2000) was deemed “inappropriate and even unsettling in a religiously diverse society such as ours” by the Anti-Defamation League. As Ralph Reed used to say: amen.

(Not online yet, but too good to miss)-

http://connpost.com/

Thumbs down to U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., and his campaign. The senator's campaign staff recently released several ads critizing Lieberman's Democratic primary opponent, anti-war businessman Ned Lamont, for owning shares of Halliburton, a company the government has awarded billions of dollars in Iraq war contracts to. Lieberman told the Connecticut Post editorial board last week that, "It's important that people know where you get your income from." Lieberman should have taken his own advice. According to a news report in the Post Friday, it turns out the senator also owns shares in Halliburton. While his staff says that Lieberman was unaware he owned any Halliburton stock, it seems questionable that his campaign never raised the Halliburton issue without first checking Lieberman's own stock holdings. Hopefully the senator's campaign will exercise better discretion in the future.

It's hard to exercise discretion when you are in a free-fall mode.