Lamont’s Campaign Manager: I’m Sorry
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, Partisan HacksAs I was browsing through memeorandum today, I came across something rather weird.
From the AP:
WATERBURY, Conn. – Democrat Ned Lamont’s campaign manager said he would apologize to the mayor of Waterbury for describing the city that backed his opponent, Sen. Joe Lieberman, as a place “where the forces of slime meet the forces of evil.”Tom Swan said the comment made Tuesday, after the city voted heavily for Lieberman in the Democratic Senate primary, was in the context of a broader discussion of state politics in which former Mayor Philip A. Giordano was the “slime” and former Gov. John G. Rowland was the “evil.”
Giordano is serving a prison sentence on federal child sex charges and Rowland, a Waterbury native, was forced to resign in 2004 and served a federal prison term for corruption.
Swan said that his statement was not meant to be reflective of the city and that he would send an apology Friday to Mayor Michael J. Jarjura.
Oh no…of course he didn’t mean it that way.
Hmm, wonder if the good people of Connecticut will remember this come election time?
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August 12th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
“Hmm, wonder if the good people of Conneticut will remember this come election time?”
Man, I hope they do, cause I’m renaming my band “Forces of Slime” today. We cannot fail to rock with a name like that. Okay, I don’t really have a band, but if I did, that’s what I would name them. That or “Fidgetbrick”.
August 13th, 2006 at 12:07 am
We’ll, let’s see, today Cal Thomas called the Democratic voters of Connecticut members of the Taleban. Not like the Taleban, but actual members of the Taleban. And anti-Semites to boot!!
I doubt we’ll be seeing an apology from Mr. Thomas anytime soon.
http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/cthomas.htm
*Mr. Lieberman’s one “sin,” in the eyes of the Taliban Democrats, was that he supported the effort to defeat the insurgent-terrorists in Iraq. As a Jew, Mr. Lieberman is particularly sensitive to those who have targeted the Jewish people for extinction. But even if he weren’t Jewish, he would still “get it,” because he understands what’s at stake in the region and has correctly concluded that the consequences of American failure in Iraq would be catastrophic.*
*His detractors, who brought him down in the primary with a one-issue, inexperienced and unqualified candidate, Ned Lamont, hate President Bush so much that their judgment has been distorted.*
*It didn’t matter that Mr. Lieberman, whose wife’s name, by the way, is Hadassah, ran as the vice presidential candidate with Al Gore in 2000, or that he has voted against most of President Bush’s domestic agenda. The Taliban wing of the Democratic Party cannot countenance any “heretics” who do not toe their line. *
*If that is the message the Taliban Democrats want to send to the nation, they have all but guaranteed a Republican presidential victory in 2008 and GOP losses, if any, might not be as bad as predicted this November. Karl Rove could not have devised a more brilliant plan.*
Hmm, wonder if the good people of Connecticut will remember this come election time?
August 13th, 2006 at 1:04 am
He should be ashamed of himself. Cal Thomas is a partisan hack, much like many of the talking heads.
Regardless, Dem voters should vote their conscience in this next election in Connecticut and not just the party line.