Comment by LC RobertHuntingdon

I do hope Lamont wins. It would be good for the country in the short term, and with a tiny bit of common sense it could become good for the country in the long run. As long as the retardicans don’t throw it all away by neglecting to clean themselves up as well.

RH

Comment by LC Jon, Imperial Hunter

If you’re hoping that LaMutt will be so egregiously stupid in office that he’ll convince even more folks that the demoncrats are stupid, inept, cowardly, perfidious… I submit that, so far, that strategy hasn’t worked. That lesson should already be abundantly clear to anyone with eyes and a mind.

Six chilling words:

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosie

Third in the line of succession to the Presidency.

And please, let there be no more talk of letting the dems have power in order to punish the RINOS. The filthy traitors must never again have power. Not. Ever. Nevermind that the Repubs deserve a loss for forgetting what they said they stood for.

The answer to that one is to get on them and stay on them and to elect new, younger and better conservatives in their place. The place for that is on the primaries, not in the general election against the Traitors!!

Comment by Sir Christopher

yeah, here’s the Wikipedia entry on what that guy says is his grandfather or something

Comment by LC RobertHuntingdon

Where am I going? Well, I see two potential outcomes, one which would give some short term good followed by outright evil, and one that would not only give some short term good but, if everything falls just right, might ALSO let the republicans clean up their act enough to avoid ever giving power back to the communists and chamberlain-ites. Or at least not for quite some time.

It does depend a bit on the immediate outcome. If Lamont wins then I think it is more likely that the Dhimmicrats take an even sharper jump off the deep end and become *literal* demoncrats — instead of just acting close enough for it to be a toungue-in-cheek slam. Its possible instead that Leiberman coming back as an Indie would mitigate things somewhat.

But lets say the far left does seize complete (instead of only major) control of the party. If that happens there is a very good chance that the retardicans, despite some really stupid things they’ve done, actually picking up seats in November. Should that happen, there is a distinct possibility of a party splinter. I would expect the communists and the peace-at-any-cost folks to stay in the demoncrat party. The libertarians would find themselves either declaring independant or actually declaring for their party in Congress. The question then is what happens next. If the RINOs who are really libertarians split off as well, we could end up with a three party system. I’m not sure how things would play out from there. Probably cause some major troubles along the way but there would be a chance of the republicans (perhaps joined by the libertarians) deciding to take advantage of the opportunity to roll back some of the stupidest of the nanny statism.

Or it’s also possible that the far left ascendency just results in them running themselves into irrelevancy. The Republicans would pick up a huge majority in Congress but eventually would split into two parties again. Might be some remnants of the demoncrats left over giving a nominal three-party system, maybe not. But the plus side here is there would be an opportunity — if used properly — to make some MAJOR reforms and roll back some of the far-left judicial activism.

The only real downside option I see is that Lamont wins and the Dems nosedive but the Republicans don’t clean up their act and in 10 years things get so bad that something else (like a foreign forclosure or something) brings us down or otherwise causes major problems. And/or somehow the dems recover long enough to grab power and then refuse to allow for any possibility of ever losing it again (which we all strongly expect they would without even blinking).

Either way, if Lamont wins tonight, there are huge opportunities for the Republicans if only they can be smart enough to properly capitalize on them.

RH

Comment by LC Wes, Imperial Mohel

In his concession speech, Lieberman basically vowed to win the war, saying that he would immediately file paperwork tomorrow with the Conneticut Secretary of State’s office to run as an oxymoronic “independent Democrat,” whatever that is.

Lieberman also sounded a bit like President Bush when he vowed to “restore unity” and “consensus” to American politics. He did get in a good zinger at the Lamonters, though, when he appealed to Democrats and Republicans alike, inside and outside of Conneticut, to go to his webpage and contribute to his campaign…when they get the website “unhacked.”

Lamont is on Fox now…and he basically sounds like the demagogic Deniac that he truly is. No “consensus” and “unity” there…oh great, now he’s trying the Iraq-as-quagmire argument…

“Bring our heroes home?” Where’s the “heroism” in cut-and-run? It doesn’t matter how many ticker-tape parades you throw for the troops if we don’t win, Lamont, you dumbass…

Oh, brother.

Will the last moderate Democrat please turn off the lights on the way out?

Comment by ichpokhudezh

Now, I’m glad the “anti-war” sentiment won the primary (yeah, I’m from THAT side).
I am concerned though that there’s just too much range in what’s-wrong-with-it and what-to-do-next opinions for this “united” front not to fall apart eventually.
While I do have a lot of respect for Sen Lieberman for not bending to anti-war pressure, but I’m surprised that you don’t note the _possibility_ for GOP to pick up this race now (imagine that, in _Connecticut_).

Comment by Emperor Darth Misha I

but I’m surprised that you don’t note the _possibility_ for GOP to pick up this race now (imagine that, in _Connecticut_).

It’s a possibility, yes, but with the way the GOP usually operates, it’s much more likely that they fuck up the opportunity beyond repair.