Ned Lamont: Dirty Tricks

It's fascinating watching the liberals eat their own in the Connecticut Democratic primary.

The extremists supporting Ned Lamont are inflicting wounds on the party that will be difficult to heal.

Today, election day, things have really reached a boiling point.

The Joe Lieberman campaign is charging the Ned Lamont forces with hacking its website, making it inaccessible to voters.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, who was locked in a battle with an anti-war challenger in the nation's most closely watched primary race Tuesday, accused his opponent's supporters of hacking his campaign Web site and e-mail system.

Lieberman campaign manager Sean Smith said the campaign has contacted the Connecticut attorney general's office and asked for a criminal investigation by state and federal authorities.

Campaigning Tuesday in New Haven, Lieberman said he has no proof that Ned Lamont's supporters are responsible, but is asking state party chairman to intervene.

"I'm concerned that our Web site is knocked out on the day of the primary, you'd assume it wasn't any casual observer," Lieberman said.

Lamont, campaigning early Tuesday afternoon in Bridgeport, said he knew nothing about the accusations. "It's just another scurrilous charge," he said.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office declined immediate comment. Calls placed to the FBI and the chief state's attorney's office seeking comment were not immediately returned.

Smith said the site began having problems Monday night and crashed for good at 7 a.m.

"Voters cannot go to our Web site. They cannot access information," Smith said. "It is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise voters."

I must admit I do find some poetic justice in Dems blaming other Dems for disenfranchising voters.

What goes around comes around.

That aside, I don't think it's a "scurrilous charge" at all to consider the Lamont army to be responsible for the site's crash.

It may not be someone directly related to the Lamont campaign, but the hacker certainly isn't on Lieberman's team.

The Bush-haters are positively rabid. They'll stop at nothing.

Most likely, the loony libs will say it's a conspiracy. They'll suggest that the Lieberman campaign crashed their own site as insurance. If Lieberman loses, he can claim that his defeat was related to his website being down on this crucial day.

The Dems really are nuts.

...A new poll showed the race tightening between Lieberman and Lamont, with Lamont holding a slight lead. Lieberman has said he will run as an independent in the fall if defeated in the primary.

The threat of running as an independent is what probably sent the fringe Left Dems into this all out war.

"Tow the party line or else. And understand that we determine what the party line is."

...Jack Ellovich said he voted for Lieberman, citing the three-term senator's experience.

"He's already got the standing in the Senate," said Ellovich, after casting his vote at a downtown Hartford precinct. "I think he can get stuff done for Connecticut and I don't think Lamont really knows how the system works."

Ellovich obviously hasn't been duped by the Lefty propaganda being spewed by Lamont and his minions.

He's seeing Lamont for what he is -- a puppet of the extremists.

Others, however, say they were swayed by the 2000 vice presidential candidate's support for the Iraq war, saying he is too close to Republicans and President Bush.

"I'm completely for Lamont because of the war issue. I'm totally disgusted with Lieberman and his positions. I think he sold us out," teacher William Clement, 57, said after casting his vote for Lamont in Hartford's west end.

"He's more like Bush than anything else. I think he's his little puppet," voter Raymond Deauchemn, 55, said in Norwich.

That is absolute Daily Kos-style BS.

This voter has been brainwashed by Lefty propaganda.

Lieberman's voting record reveals:

When Democrats and Republicans disagreed, Lieberman voted 90.5 percent of the time with his colleagues in roll call votes cast during his third term.

He sided with the majority of Democrats over Republicans only 78.9 percent of the time over the previous 10 years.

There is no way that record can be construed as the actions of a little Bush puppet.

It's ridiculous. With all due respect, Deauchem reveals that he doesn't know what he's talking about. He should be embarrassed that AP has shot his silly words around the world.

...Some argue the GOP would be better off if Lieberman wins, on the theory that anti-war activists would become discouraged and stay home in November.

Others argue that Republicans will be better off if Lamont prevails. That way, the argument goes, they can try to win over voters by telling them the Democrats have been taken over by an anti-war fringe and can't be trusted to protect the nation's security.

I think way too much is being made out of this one race.

It's a Connecticut thing. I don't think as Connecticut goes, so goes the nation.

However, Lieberman v. Lamont does illustrate the sort of extreme, almost militant tactics that the far Left is willing to utilize -- anything to bring Bush down.

It's sort of a policy of deterence. The radical lib Dems want Lieberman's head on a stick to scare off any other Dems who would dare to stray slightly from the far Left agenda of the Democratic Party's radical wing.

Without question, Republicans will benefit by a Lamont win. A Lieberman loss could be used as proof that the Democratic Party is too extreme, hijacked by liberal fanatics, and out of touch with mainstream America. It really would be a gift to Karl Rove.

Think about that, radical libs.

You're playing right into the Architect's hands.