Lamont's Folly

The contrived campaign of Ned Lamont is destined for ultimate failure. The jubilant cries from liberals across the country will ring hollow on Election Day this November. I hope we see lots of photographs from the Lamont defeat rally on Election night. The moonbats should be in rare form by that time. Let's hope that they aren't affected by Crazy Mc-K syndrome.

Conspiracy theorists on the left have already hedged their bets by blaming President Bush in advance of a Lieberman victory. George Stephanopoulos, Clinton hack and host of the Sunday ABC program, “This Week,” was out there with a partial story about Karl Rove, and having it later corrected and clarified.

In its lead editorial today, The New York Sun gets it just about perfect.

"Now that the returns are in, the concession phone call made, the speeches delivered, and the general election campaign begun, it's clear that the winner of Tuesday's Democratic primary for Senate in Connecticut is — Joseph Lieberman. With his intraparty opponents exposed as a bunch of Internet-addled loons tinged with anti-Semitism who will support anti-war inherited wealth over interests of blue collar working families, Mr. Lieberman is liberated from the modern Democratic Party and bursting to campaign as an independent. "

Mr Lieberman is a liberal of the first degree. He behaved very poorly during the Sore/Loserman days of November and December, 2000. HOWEVER, he has demonstrated himself to be a man of integrity. The loony left has been unhappy with Mr. Lieberman since his failure (in their warped minds) to attack Dick Cheney strongly enough in the 2000 Vice-Presidential Debate.

The superb Peggy Noonan, Ronald Reagan’s star speech writer, has insights that escape the liberals to catch up in their own self induced euphoria.

If I were Mr. Lieberman's campaign manager I'd take heart from Mr. Lamont's victory speech on Tuesday night. At one point he seemed to catch himself, stop himself from going down one rhetorical route and go down another. But he didn't do it like a pro. He did it like someone who all of a sudden remembered some political advice someone whispered in his ear. He was talking about what seemed to be a voter he'd met on the trail, and you could tell he was going to paint her frustration and despair. Then he remembered he was supposed to come across not as aggrieved but as triumphant and hopeful, so he pulled himself off the anecdote and wandered down some safer route of banality.


He was standing there with confetti glittering distractedly on his hair, and on the shoulders of his dark suit--he and his people are new enough in politics that there's no one around him yet to brush the confetti off and say, "It looks like dandruff." He looked as shocked as anyone that he was the Democratic nominee for senator from Connecticut. He looked like what Dick Morris, who said he'd once had Mr. Lamont as a client, said of him in his column the next day: a "rich, light-weight dilettante" who inherited the fortune of J.P. Morgan's partner. Mr. Lamont does have the soft, startled look of the inheritor of huge wealth. And we'll certainly be hearing more about that.

Wait for November all ye criers of the Bush/Conservative demise.

Watch Ann Coulter and Tom Delay together on Neal Cavuto.
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