I have followed the Connecticut Senate race with passing interest, & was happy to see Lamont beat “Zell” Lieberman for the general reason that it’s time to get rid of Bush’s favorite Democrats (Daniel Akaka, you’re next).
But today, Ned Lamont showed me that he really gets it.
He said:
“Good judgment is an essential part of good governance”
Hallelujah!!!
Right to the heart of the matter!! The reason why the last five years have been such a clusterfuck is the horrible lack of good judgement on the part of our top leadership. “Surrounded by ‘good’ people”, my bright pink fanny!! The man in charge (or woman, if that be the case) better have more than five working brain cells if they want my vote – and Ned Lamont gets that.
No more inbred idiot chillun, it’s bad for all of us.
Here’s some of the rest of Lamont’s article from the Wall Street Journal, by way of Josh Marshall:
In the past week, my victory in the Connecticut Senate primary has been labeled everything from the death knell of the Democratic Party to the signal of our party’s rebirth. Beneath all of this punditry is a question that I want to face directly: how the experience I will bring to the U.S. Senate will help Connecticut and the Democratic Party during this time of testing for our country.
I ran at a time when people said “you can’t beat a three-term incumbent,” because I believed that President Bush, enabled by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, had weakened our country at home and abroad. We’re weaker economically, because we’re more dependent on foreign energy and foreign capital. Our national security has also been weakened, because we stopped fighting a real war on terror when we made the costly and counterproductive decision to go to war in Iraq…
Good judgment is an essential part of good governance. But we’re bogged down in Iraq, and hamstrung in the war against terror, by leaders who lacked judgment, historical perspective, openness to other cultures and plain old common sense. We offer something different.
But in the final analysis, the results of this election say less about me, and more about the people of Connecticut. They turned out in record numbers; they spoke every day with a simple eloquence and urgency about the country we love. They oppose the war and the fiscal nightmare crafted by President Bush and his allies. But their vote, finally, was one based on pragmatism and reality, on optimism and hope. And it is to these ideals and values that we plan to address my campaign in the months until November.
It’s great that Lamont has come this far, but the fight isn’t over.
While Lieberman clearly called in a buttload of favors to get the ‘celebrity’ endorsements he did in the primary, & won’t likely do even that well in the general election, you can bet they will be doing serious arm-twisting wherever they can to advance Joe or the other Joe-lites & little Georges that oppose us this November & two years down the road.
Still, at last, I see a little light at the end of the tunnel & I’m not afraid its an oncoming train.
🙂