{"id":1229,"date":"2006-08-20T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/08\/the-democrats-are-the-people-o.html"},"modified":"2006-08-20T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T20:18:00","slug":"the-democrats-are-the-people-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/08\/the-democrats-are-the-people-o.html","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats are &#8220;<i>the<\/i> people of Connecticut?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Democrats are people but are they <span style=\"font-style: italic\">the<\/span> people.  I guess November will show whether Lieberman is out of step with <span style=\"font-style: italic\">the<\/span> people of Connecticut or only the anti-war Democrats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., blasted a fellow Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, for continuing his bid in the Connecticut Senate race despite a narrow loss to newcomer Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I&#8217;m concerned that [Lieberman] is making a Republican case,&#8221; Kerry told ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week with George Stephanopoulos&#8221; in an exclusive appearance. <\/p>\n<p> Kerry accused the 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate of &#8220;adopting the rhetoric of Dick Cheney,&#8221; on the issue of Iraq.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joe Lieberman is <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">out of step with the people of Connecticut<\/span>,&#8221; Kerry added, insisting Lieberman&#8217;s stance on Iraq, &#8220;shows you just why he got in trouble with the Democrats there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ThisWeek\/Politics\/story?id=2334709&amp;page=1\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis guy talks like Lieberman lost by a Kerry style margin, he only lost by 10,000 votes. Lamont is in step with half the Democrats of the state and if John Kerry were concerned what <span style=\"font-style: italic\">the <\/span>people of Connecticut want, why not give them the ability to say &#8220;Yes, we support the war&#8221; and vote for Lieberman or &#8220;No, we don&#8217;t support the war&#8221; and vote for Lamont?&#8221;  The war will get it&#8217;s mandate, which Kerry does not want.   If Lamont is handed a stunning defeat, wouldn&#8217;t that be the worst possible scenario for Kerry?  If &#8220;it&#8217;s all about the war stupid&#8221; should lose at the polls, what does that mean for an anti-war candidate for 2008?  (Since the whole 2006 anti-war, anti-incumbent spin is focused totally on this race.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Lieberman\" rel=\"tag\">Lieberman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Kerry\" rel=\"tag\">Kerry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Connecticut+race\" rel=\"tag\">Connecticut race<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Lamont\" rel=\"tag\">Lamont<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Democrats are people but are they the people. I guess November will show whether Lieberman is out of step with the people of Connecticut or only the anti-war Democrats: Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., blasted a fellow Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, for continuing his bid in the Connecticut Senate race despite a narrow loss&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Democrats are &quot;the people of Connecticut?&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/08\/the-democrats-are-the-people-o.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Democrats are &quot;the people of Connecticut?&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Connecticut Democrats are people but are they the people. 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