The Game’s Over, But He Still Thinks He’s Playing
Jeez. Joe “tied for third place” Lieberman doesn’t get it. The voters of Connecticut looked at you and your opponent and decided they like him better. End of story. The election is over and you lost. Cluelessness like this isn’t just infuriating, it’s pathetic :
“Now let me tell you how I see where we are now,” the senator continued, in a speech that was less of a concession than a confirmation that he would not back down. “I’m a sports fan, so I’m going to use a sports comparison, and as I see it in this campaign, we’ve just finished the first half and the Lamont team is ahead. But in the second half, our team — Team Connecticut — is going to surge forward to victory in November.”
Here’s a sports analogy you can wrap your head around :
You lost dude. Have a little dignity and give up.
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Greg,
as a ‘born-again republican,’ Lieberman is taking the play straight from Bush. There are no winners or losers - only protracted battles whose outcome is lost in the fog of war, and hopefully last longer than the average American attention span.
Comment by FreedomByChoice — August 9, 2006 @ 5:33 am
Or, as Joe himself put it after the 2004 election:
“In the end, my own feeling is, looking at the polls, but intuiting, based on people I talk to, is that, although Senator Kerry got a lot of votes, 56 million votes, more than any Democratic candidate for president in history, but there’s no prizes for second place in American politics.”
Comment by hooboy — August 9, 2006 @ 7:53 am
“You got knocked the FUCK out!”
Comment by webslinger — August 9, 2006 @ 11:54 am
If Joe stops now Georgie won’t kiss him anymore.
Comment by Kamachanda — August 9, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
Bad news for incumbents come November and despite the bullshit being spit out by the republicans they know their number is up. The democrats are going to take back the Senate and the House. About damn time too.
Comment by rob payne — August 9, 2006 @ 11:42 pm
…? Ah, yes - there is no place for “independents,” people who actually think and develop view points of their own. You must either be bloodthirsty in your support of the war or absolutely cowardly in your insistence that we leave immediately. Subscribe to the party line or get out.
Comment by Steve — August 11, 2006 @ 4:24 pm
Aren’t false dichotomies wonderful? =D
Comment by Nick J. — August 12, 2006 @ 1:32 pm
Um, in case you didnt’ notice, the latest polls show Lieberman in the lead. I predicted that at washington montlhy and crooks and liars.
If Lieberman gets 90% of the Republican vote and, say 20% of the independent and Democratic vote, he wins in a walk. Doesn’t look to difficult from where I sit.
And now, thanks to Lamont’s moment of stunning political ineptitude, Lieberman now has Al Sharpton to throw in his face. You may have noticed that Lamont’s margin of victory dramatically collapsed after Goodstein, whom liberals had so much fun mocking, asked Lamont if he was “A Bill Clinton Democrat or an Al Sharpton Democrat?”
Al Sharpton, as I keep pointing out to people who don’t want to hear it, is such a radioactive asshole, that the Republicans financed his 2004 presidential campaign—a fact which was reported in the NYT, the Village Voice and Joe Conason’s column in Salon. Liberals being the enlightened trained seals that they are reacted to this news by applauding Sharpton.
If you guy’s stopped laughing at Lieberman for a sec, you might notice that he’s in a pretty fair spot to fuck the lot of you in your collective assholes.
Egoist that I am, I sincerely hope I’m wrong about this one. But if I’m right, I intend to expand my ever growing popularity by reminding folks about the price of denial.
Comment by Hieronymus Braintree — August 17, 2006 @ 8:48 pm