Lieberman (CFL) to campaign with Rob Simmons (R) today

Nice Photo (0.00 / 0)

They all look like somebody just cut a ripper.


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by: lakezoarian @ Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 08:13:18 AM CDT

GOP pollster Neil Newhouse (0.00 / 0)

probably thought it would be a good photo op.

And just by chance, Newhouse is the pollster for Lieberman, Simmons and Rell.

What a coincidence! Must be that "unity" thing.

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by: notcho @ Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 08:23:03 AM CDT

Where is Dodd today? (0.00 / 0)

If Joe is the only Democrat showing up, it's clear this isn't a celebration of bipartisanship, it's a GOP rally with their token Democrat.

Disgusting.

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by: OrangeTownBlueDem @ Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 09:31:09 AM CDT

exactly (0.00 / 0)

Sen. Dodd is nowhere to be found. This is a pure Republican event with Joe Lieberman front and center.

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by: huskiedog @ Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 11:35:38 AM CDT

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That, and... (0.00 / 0)

Dodd can no longer attend these type of events because appearances do matter. If Lieberman had won the primary Dodd would likely have appeared as well.

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by: Scarce @ Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 11:40:01 AM CDT

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Dodd also has to worry about his "presidential ambitions" (0.00 / 0)

Although I don't think he really has to worry about it that much.

Social libertarian.

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by: Quarterly Prophet @ Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 13:20:27 PM CDT

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Not sure this was a campaign event (0.00 / 0)

Are we criticizing Joe prematurely on this issue?  Seems like the timing of this event, and the attendees, relates more to the one-year anniversary of the decision to keep the Sub base open, rather than Joe doing a campaign stop for Simmons.  Lieberman and Simmons were on the team in place to prevent closure, so it would seem hard to argue unequivocally that this was Joe flacking for Simmons.  http://www.dailykos....

The diary links to Norwich Bulletin article that says:

Members of Team Connecticut reconvened this morning at the Dominion Nuclear Power Plant facility in Waterford for a daylong conference reviewing the base closing process. The purpose of the Lessons Learned conference is intended to identify what was done well, and not so well, in the state’s efforts to overturn the Pentagon recommendation.

This isn't a defense of Joe, but rather of getting the facts right.  I've already sent an email to the DSCC today about this and I might have been wrong in flatly asserting Joe was campaigning for Simmons.  The last thing I want is for us to be dismissed on legitimate stuff because we got this one wrong...

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by: PeterB @ Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 17:01:15 PM CDT

where's Dodd? (0.00 / 0)

sort of like "where's Waldo". If this was about the "people involved" then why isn't Dodd there? It looks like a GOP ralley, it smells like a GOP ralley, and amazingly enough, not one Democratic candidate is there (or one Democrat for that matter).

This doesn't wash as non-partisan...

Dodd isn't there, what is he chopped liver?


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by: Met00 @ Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 01:28:52 AM CDT

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