In today’s pile of reading, I discovered that Connecticut Local Politics has mostly endorsed Lamont in next week’s campaign.
One problem - they still hit squarely on my issue with Lamont. They aren’t supporting Lamont so much as defying Lieberman:
On each of these issues, Senator Lieberman had a chance to stand for core democratic principles: helping people enduring a perilous economic situation is more important than enriching the banking and credit card industries, standing proud in protecting the most successful social program in our country’s history in Social Security, and protecting rape victims from having to suffer the indignity of becoming impregnated by their rapist against their will. On each issue (and it is important to note in response to the Lieberman campaign’s claim that Mr. Lamont is running only on opposition to the Iraq war that these are all issues separate from Iraq), Mr. Lieberman passed up that chance where Mr. Lamont would not have. It is for these reasons that I support Ned Lamont in the Democratic Primary.
I don’t necessarily agree with Lieberman’s actions, and I can’t say that I think he’s running an effective primary campaign. But I wish there were something more to Lamont than seemingly “Lieberman doesn’t deserve to be Senator.”
Didn’t stop me from voting for him, however.