who publicly said"George Bush's favorite Democrat shouldn't receive my Party's nomination or the others who spoke to some of the 34% and said "I wish it was a secret ballot and I would have voted for Lamont?"

Oh and another thing?

Tell Rothenberg being a Selectman is a highly respected position of government in New England.

It is GREAT training to be a US Senator.

Its not a real war if you can change the channel.  

Keep it up folks. Just drive the party right off the political cliff.  We lose people like Joe Lieberman the Democratic party really will be a permanent minority party.  

We are in the minority because we get away from the Centrism of the 1990s.  As Democrats we need to accept the fact that right now the public does not trust us to keep them safe, push for policies that keep our economy growing and competitive against China and India, or be smart with their money.  That is why even in a year when it seems everything is going our way we are still only looking at taking the House with a 5-10 seat majority.  

Running as a bunch of Howard Dean style liberals is not going to make that situation any better, and will probably make things much worse.

Wu Ming,

That is complete nonsense.  Democrats lost the House because from 1972-1992 we let you lefties run things and it destroyed the public's confidence in our ability to handle defense, the economy, crime, taxes, and being in touch with their values.  

Those feelings, which had been played out in the Presidential elections of 1972, 1980, 1984, and 1988, were finally expressed at the Congressional level.  Running as Centrists in 1996 and 1998 did help the Democrats begin to repair the damage.  

But then in 2000 you guys took over again (remember Gore's populism and his slogan the people v. the powerful).  In 2002 lefties in the Seante let our loyalties to the AFL-CIO allow the Republicans to use the debate over the Department of Homeland Security to make us look weak.  And in 2004 John Kerry ran on an economic class warfare platform that was clearly out of touch with middle class voters-which is why he lost all middle class voters by 3% and white middle class voters by 15%.

At some point you are going to have to admit that a majority of Americans preferred George Bush to John Kerry.  And that the way to actually win elections is not to run to Kerry's left, where there are all of these imaginary non-voters who are dreaming of a liberal to ride in and finally give them a reason to vote, but to move to the Center where the voters really are.

Scarce,

Are you referring to me or Sco?  

Lamont's pottymouth progressive bloggers are going to be his own worst enemy. The foul-language is a HUGE turn-off, and as representative of Lamont's campaign and base it's prepubertally self-dismissing. Connecticutt NEEDS a mature statesman who has surrounded himself with experienced staff and mature-minded supporters.

RedStar67,

If Gore won, who was the President on January 21, 2001?  That's who won the race, and it wasn't Gore.

Oh yeah Centrists ran the Democrats when we put up Mondale and Dukakis.  Keep dreaming

The word is president.  If you want to talk like a moron than go hang out on some street corner.

ChetEdModerate,

Just this phrase "conservative Democatic Senator Hillary Clinton" shows how completely out of touch with the average American you really are.  And your analysis of 1993-94 is that we lost Congress because of our support for TWO LEFT WING IDEAS - gun control and government run healthcare.  Thanks for making my point that running as fire breathing liberals will put us out of the mainstream.

As for your little history lesson I never said the Democrats did not run Congress from 1959-94.  What I was discussing is how left wingers took over the party in 1972 (McGovern - your parents version of Dean) and what did to our ability to operate in the political mainstream.      

As for this ridiculous argument that the People v. the Powerful won Democrats elections, who won the presidential election?  Tom Carper did not run on People v. Powerful, Carahan won in MO because of sympathy over a plane crash, Gramms was too conservative for Minnesota, Cantwell and Stabneow barely won in squeekers.  Those are hardly ringing endorsements for your lame populism.

Just remember this, in August all of you Deaniac-Wackivists are going to get a beatdown from the man you hate the most in the Democratic Party - Senator Joe Lieberman.  

I read a couple of articles about the convention and have a question that maybe someone here can answer.

Did Lieberman really NOT attend? What I read seemed to indicate that some other state office holder gave his acceptance speech. If this is true I can hardly believe the arrogance. I was a party delegate to my state (MN) in 04 and our Senator appeared and spoke even though he wasn't running in 2006. For Lieberman NOT to attend would have sent an incredible message of "I don't care what you think" to the party delegates.

Did he attend?

Thanks!

All of you folks love to have someone to blame.  Its Karl Rove, or the DLC, or the media, etc.  But its never anyone on the left wing of the party.  McGovern, Kennedy, Mondale, Jackson, Dean, none of them deserve any criticism.  

FYI, I was pissed that Bush won.  But I was more pissed that Gore ran his stupid populist campaign and alot of holier than though liberal voted for Nader in states like New Hampshire and Florida.  

But I would like one of you political experts to please tell me why now in 2006 when Nancy Pelosi (a liberal from San Francisco) is our leader in Congress and Howard Dean is running the DNC that the Democrats, despite all the bad news the Republicans have to carry going into the fall elections, can only look at maybe having a 5-10 seat majority in January?  Maybe it is because the public does not think we are in the center and does not trust us to keep them safe, push for policies that keep our economy strong and competitive in the face of global competition, or be smart with their tax dollars?  If it is not that, what is it?  Please inform me.  When I wake up tomorrow I would love to know what the political experts of this blog think is stopping us as Democrats from closing the deal with the American voter.

The sad reality is that the wingnuts and the Bushies have tried to push this country so far to the right that what used to be perceived as the center is now considered liberal!  So if I were Joementum, I'd be worried knowing that the "liberals" are out to get me.  But Joe is too wrapped in his Faux News mouthpiece role to realize that he is losing the left AND center.  Look back at comments from the convention on Friday.  Observers were amazed that much of Lamont's support came from small-town locations that are typically thought of "conservative".  Ditka is entitled to his opinion, and obviously we can't change it.  So let's focus on winning the primary and the general!

Btw, Lieberman was at the convention and addressed it, but he left before sundown and the vote results.  I won't accuse him of arrogance for that early departure because it is a well-known fact that he religiously observes Shabbat (the Jewish sabbath) which begins at sundown on Friday.  There is much to criticize Joe for.  This is not one of them.

Having said that, let's focus on victory for Lamont!  "I want Lamont" bumper stickers, anyone?